Based on the principle of equity and common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, the onus to reduce greenhouse gas emissions during the pre-2020 period was placed on the developed countries. However, this period witnessed several setbacks characterised by poor participation of developed countries and their performance. This presents a grim picture for pre-2020 outcomes, posing economic, environmental, and political risks to achieving post-2020 goals, and reinforcing existing inequalities between developed and developing nations.

This webinar will showcase differentiated positions of the developed countries with respect to their performance in the pre-2020 regime. The discussion would centre around the need - and mechanisms - to accelerate time-bound actions to meet erstwhile climate targets to strengthen trust and confidence among the developing and developed nations. In the session, we will also launch a new CEEW study, 'Unpacking Pre-2020 Climate Commitments: Who Delivered, How Much, and How will the Gaps be Addressed?'.

Government support is more important than ever for the energy transition in the wake of COVID-19. Shifting government support from fossil to clean energy can ensure that every rupee of public money helps in achieving the goals of access, energy security, and the shift to a low-carbon economy.

The session will feature insights on how the Government of India has used subsidies to support different types of energy from FY 2014 until FY 2020, and describe major shifts since the onset of COVID-19. Further, we will explore how subsidy policy can best promote solar PV manufacturing, and how investments by Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) are supporting the clean energy transition.

The cooling sector is a critical lever for India’s development trajectory. The Montreal Protocol, the India Cooling Action Plan (ICAP), Mission Innovation and other key initiatives are committed to accelerating the pace of R&D and innovation to enhance access to sustainable cooling. This session will highlight mechanisms that can help galvanize the ecosystem of collaborative technology development and deployment with the launch of a new CEEW study: 'Collaborative R&D for sustainable cooling in India: Institutional reforms to accelerate technology deployment'.

This webinar will bring together key stakeholders from Government, industry, academia, research and civil society to deliberate on generating effective collaboration between public and private entities to ensure a technology-aided market transformation, with the overall ambition of enhancing access to sustainable cooling for all in India.

The session will mark the launch of the India Renewables Dashboard, a database developed jointly by CEA, SSEF and CEEW-CEF.

India is making great strides in its energy transition. With nearly 93 GW of installed Renewable Energy (RE) capacity,  RE’s share of India’s electricity mix is also on an upswing. The India Renewables Dashboard tracks source-wise daily RE generation for Indian states rolled up to a regional and national level. In addition, it also helps quantify CO2 emissions mitigated as a result of such generation and captures granular plant level generation data for a subset of capacity.