India's Climate Bet: An Emerging Giant's Alternative Route to Power

Abstract

"Over the past year, India has essentially abandoned the mindset that climate action must be pitted against development progress and has embarked on an ambitious policy effort to decarbonize its economy. Since the Copenhagen climate summit, India has formally pledged to reduce the emissions intensity of its gross domestic product by 20-25 percent from 2005 levels by 2020 and put in place an ambitious National Action Plan on Climate Change."