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Parth Bhatia
Parth Bhatia is an Associate Fellow at CPR’s Initiative on Climate Energy and Environment (ICEE). He joined ICEE in January 2018. He is currently working on the political economy of India’s low carbon electricity transition at the sub-national (state) level, understanding the impact of innovative technologies in national socio-technical transformations, socio-economic transition of the coal economy and the design of institutions in the effective development and implementation of climate policies. He is also the Chapter Scientist for the chapter on “National and Sub-national Climate Policies and Institutions” in the upcoming IPCC AR6 report, due in 2022. As part of ICEE, he has worked on the production of the upcoming edited volume on integrating climate and development in India (edited by Navroz Dubash).
Prior to joining CPR, Parth worked as a Business Analyst at A.T. Kearney India, a Management Consulting firm. Here he worked on projects related to supply change transformation and cost optimisation for leading Indian corporations in the auto and luxury retail sectors.
He holds a Masters and Bachelors in Energy Systems Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay). During his undergraduate programme, he pursued his interest in green buildings through the Solar Decathlon, an international green building construction competition. As a founding member of “Team Shunya”, he helped in the design and construction of a fully functional, solar powered, zero energy house.
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Keeping development at the forefront of India’s long-term climate strategy
India’s Long Term Low Emissions Development Strategy (LT-LEDS) sets out multiple low-carbon transitions, highlighting that climate action will be intimately tied to developmental processes. In this article, Chandra et al. identify some of the challenges and opportunities embedded within these transitions, and reflect on how these will impact developmental priorities such as employment and energy security. To operationalise the LT-LEDS effectively, they argue that India will benefit from planning now to minimise the trade-offs between low-carbon futures and development.
जलवायु संकट में भारत की संघीय प्रणाली की पुनर्कल्पना
सभी देशों की तरह भारत के लिए भी, जलवायु परिवर्तन एक अत्यंत तेजी से बढती समस्या बन गई है। इस लेख के जरिये पिल्लई एवं अन्य तर्क देते हैं कि इस समस्या के समाधान के लिए भारत की संघीय प्रणाली की पुनर्कल्पना करने की आवश्यकता है, क्योंकि भारत के संविधान में जलवायु संबंधी कई क्षेत्रों में राज्यों के महत्वपूर्ण कर्त्तव्य निर्धारित किये गए हैं। वे जलवायु नीति में संस्थागत सुधार हेतु एक नए दृष्टिकोण का सुझाव देते हैं, जो राष्ट्रीय लक्ष्यों के लिए अपने कार्यों का समन्वय करते हुए राज्यों को पर्याप्त लचीलापन देगा।
Reimagining Indian federalism in the climate crisis
Climate change is an increasingly urgent problem for India, as for all countries. In this post, Pillai et al. contend that addressing the issue requires reimagining Indian federalism, as the Indian Constitution gives states a crucial role in several arenas of climate action. They propose a new approach to institutional reform in climate policy, one that gives states adequate flexibility while coordinating their actions for national goals.