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Manisha Jain

Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
manishajain@igidr.ac.in

Manisha is a Visting Assistant Professor at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai. She holds a Ph.D. in climate studies, and M.Tech. in energy systems engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. Her broad research areas include electricity markets, energy efficiency, and impacts of and responses to climate change. In her doctoral thesis, she examined consumer preferences for energy efficiency in India. Her current work involves examining consumer responses to alternative electricity pricing structures.

Posts by Manisha Jain

जलवायु संबंधी अपने लक्ष्यों को पूरा करने में भारत की प्रगति

जलवायु परिवर्तन पर पेरिस समझौते के तहत भारत का लक्ष्य ग्रीनहाउस गैस उत्सर्जन की तीव्रता को वर्ष 2005 के स्तर से वर्ष 2030 तक 33-35% तक कम करना है। मनीषा जैन ने ‘आइडियाज फॉर इंडिया’ में प्रकाशित अपने प...

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Carbon dioxide emissions from India’s industries: Data sources and discrepancies

Industries are one of the most significant contributors to energy-related carbon-dioxide (energy-CO2) emissions in India – the share of industries in the total emissions was 25%, second only to powe...

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India’s progress in meeting its climate goals

India’s target under the Paris Agreement on climate change, is to reduce greenhouse gas emission intensity by 33-35% by 2030, from the 2005 level. In a previous I4I post, Manisha Jain showed that th...

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Tracking India’s greenhouse gas emission intensity target

One of the targets in India’s ‘Nationally Determined Contributions’ under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, is to reduce the greenhouse gas emission intensity of GDP by ...

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