{"id":347836,"date":"2020-04-21T12:41:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T07:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=347836"},"modified":"2020-04-21T12:42:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T07:12:06","slug":"can-the-covid-19-crisis-help-remake-indias-energy-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/can-the-covid-19-crisis-help-remake-indias-energy-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Can the covid-19 crisis help remake India\u2019s energy economy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just how dependent is India on fossil fuels? The Mapping India\u2019s Energy Subsidies 2020 report, released on 16 April, gives a useful overview of India\u2019s energy subsidy mix and also analyses the country\u2019s policies on subsidies. Prepared by the International Institute for Sustainable Development\u2019s (IISD) Global Subsidies Initiative and the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), the study is an update on an earlier analysis prepared in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s three-trillion economy is set to grow to a seven-trillion economy by 2030, according to a Deutsche Bank report in January. At the same time, India\u2019s commitment towards climate change mitigation, according to its 2015 Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), includes a pledge to reduce the emissions intensity of its GDP by 33-35% by 2030 from the 2005 level. It also includes the goal of ensuring that 40% of the country\u2019s power generation comes from non-fossil fuel (oil, coal, and gas) based energy by 2030.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just how dependent is India on fossil fuels? The Mapping India\u2019s Energy Subsidies 2020 report, released on 16 April, gives a useful overview of India\u2019s energy subsidy mix and also analyses the country\u2019s policies on subsidies. Prepared by the International Institute for Sustainable Development\u2019s (IISD) Global Subsidies Initiative and the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), the study is an update on an earlier analysis prepared in 2017. India\u2019s three-trillion economy is set to grow to a seven-trillion economy by 2030, according to a Deutsche Bank report in January. At the same time, India\u2019s commitment towards climate change mitigation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}