Navroz K Dubash
@NavrozDubash
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Climate, energy, air quality, governance and politics. Professor @PrincetonSPIA & @PrincetonEnviro Visiting Senior Fellow, @SFC_India
Joined September 2011
Today is my last day at @cpr_india, by some distance my most enjoyable, productive and creative professional home. A remarkable institution with remarkable people. 14 yrs on I leave to pursue new ideas - more soon. I will be privileged to stay in touch and support CPR colleagues.
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1/n Immediate post-Sharm take on a very intriguing COP. Beyond the simple 'loss and damage – good; mitigation progress – bad' storyline.
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Very pleased to be starting an exciting new position this week at @PrincetonSPIA and @PrincetonEnviro. I very much look forward to engaging with and learning from new colleagues and new students. And to carrying forward and deepening ongoing conversations and collaborations.
Princeton SPIA will welcome 11 new faculty members with dual appointments in @PrincetonEcon, @PrincetonAnthro, @PrincetonAAS, @PsychPrinceton, and sociology.
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My take on India's COP pledges. The net zero target got the headlines but the action is in the 2030 details. @htTweets @CPR_Climate
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What do we make of India’s announcement of 5 COP pledges? Net zero by 2070 will get headlines, but the 2030 pledges is where the action is. #climate #COP26 @CPR_Climate @CPR_India.
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Please track and follow Sustainable Futures Collaborative @SFC_India, an exciting new policy research organisation that we will launch next year. For more details on our team and approach, please check out
Launching soon: The Sustainable Futures Collaborative (SFC). We’re building a young, vibrant team of scholars to analyse frontier issues in climate change, energy and environment, inform policymakers and the public, and accelerate sustainability transitions. New website in Q1
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Lele and I unpack the Yale-Columbia Environmental Performance Index. The benchmark for climate progress is intellectually weak and ethically suspect. It sets back climate debate. And muddies much needed Indian domestic environmental policy debate.
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I am really looking forward to the launch of @SFC_India on March 19th. If you are in Delhi, please join us. We are a new research organisation analysing and seeking to accelerate a transition to sustainable futures, led by a wonderful multi-disciplinary research team.
Save the date! 📢. We are thrilled to announce the official launch of SFC on March 19, 2024, at 6 pm, at the India International Centre, New Delhi. Stay tuned for more details! RSVP:
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Enjoyable conversation @TheHinduComment on whether poor countries can afford to go green (or indeed whether they can afford not to) with my long-time interlocutor and friend @KanitkarT
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1/n India’s long-term low-emission development strategy (LT-LEDS) was just released at #COP27 . Here’s the TL;DR version + my thoughts on what next. (Disclosure: @CPR_Climate was overall anchor institute & technical knowledge partner for the doc, working with several other orgs).
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Honoured to have the opportunity to serve as co-Editor in Chief of @Climate_Policy with my friend and colleague @YacobMulugetta. My thanks to @HarryWinkler and @frankjotzo who, along with @jancorfee have led the journal to new heights. Look forward to papers from clim Twitter (X).
We are delighted to announce that from January, our new editors-in-chief will be @NavrozDubash & @YacobMulugetta. After 7 years, @frankjotzo & @HarryWinkler will be stepping down. We are deeply grateful to them for their leadership. About our new EiCs👉
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My take ahead of COP 27 in @htTweets This will be a political COP, with global north and global south jostling for a re-positioning at a time of broader instability. As many others have also said, loss and damage, and finance, likely to top the agenda. @CPR_Climate
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India cannot grow now and clean up later. Our GDP is a third China's but our air polltution is worse. @UrbanEmissions
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2023 should be the year climate change is mainstreamed into India's development decisions.
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A statement from @CPR_India on recent developments regarding our institution's registration under the Foreign Contribution Regulatory Act.
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For our own sake, India must address both climate mitigation and climate resilience. But how? We should walk a line between 'development-first, climate-later' and climate as 'untrammelled opportunity'. I react to an @AsiaPolicy study that illustrates the latter. @CPR_Climate
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7/n Post Sharm we face a serious reckoning on 1.5 – not nearly enough cuts in the North; not enough climate finance to accelerate transition; and (appropriate) unwillingness to compress energy demand in the South means no path to 1.5. Something has to give and it may be 1.5.
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New research suggests climate laws help reduce emissions. My new @NatureNV piece in @NatureClimate says we need a far greater understanding of the *pathways* of impact, particularly in developing countries.
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2/n 1.L&D fund deserves its warm glow. Old school normative shift wrought by vulnerable nations and activists. Made it impossible for countries to claim an ethical climate stance w/o supporting L&D finance agenda. Lots of implementation challenges but norm shift is significant.
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It may be in the interests of developing countries to do development differently, but falling renewable energy prices by no means imply a post-equity climate politics, I argue in a new collection on 'Climate and Development' in Development Policy Review
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My take on striving for equity and ambition in @Nature It is neither ethical nor politically viable to compromise development while pursuing decarbonisation. But a high carbon path to development is no longer available. Can the G20 help find common ground on equity and ambition?.
The G20 should forge a pact to support nations’ shifts to a low-carbon future, says @CPR_Climate Professor @NavrozDubash
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Delighted to have this special issue out on Varieties of Climate Governance, with a great group of authors. The full set of papers will be available shortly. Stay tuned.
In “Varieties of Climate Governance: The Emergence & Functioning of #Climate Institutions" @NavrozDubash outlines framework to explain their emergence, based on interplay of national political institutions, internat. drivers & bureaucratic structures.
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1/ NEW: @Env_Pol Special Issue on 'Varieties of #ClimateGovernance.' @climatepolitics @hochstet @mmildenberger @adivp333 @ChFlachsland @seb_levi Fei Teng, Pu Wang, Robert MacNeil, @emilyjtyler & I focus on a crucial but missing link: climate institutions.
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Thank you to those who joined us for the launch of @SFC_India! We were all really energised by the event and hope you were too - here are some pics. For those who are out of Delhi or who could not make it, stay tuned for a recording. And do check out
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our launch event yesterday. Your support and enthusiasm meant the world to us. Here's a glimpse of the evening. We will share a recording soon. Meanwhile, explore our brand new website and read our perspectives on
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How can India advance climate cooperation as G20 President? In @htTweets I suggest:.- keep cc at top of a crowded global agenda.- reiterate no backsliding.- stress mitigation across all fossil fuels.- amplify LiFE to a full demand-side agenda.- forge progress on climate finance
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3/n Scolding on mitigation progress by EU smacks of duplicity. Absent steep emission declines in rich North or massive additional investment, 1.5 trajectories requires compressing energy demand in poor countries at cost of development as spelled out in
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Net zero can be an important focus for climate action. But it must not compel all countries down a single path. Instead, we need credible, just transitions to net zero. I write with @HarryWinkler and Lavanya Rajamani @OxfordNetZero in @ConversationUK.
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Pleased to announce that the open-access version of ‘India in a Warming World’ is now live! Here’s a quick review of what the book talks about. THREAD #IndiaWarming #IndiaInAWarmingWorld.
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Please check out @parthbhatia92's systematic review on India's electricity transition - most thoughtful and comprehensive take I have seen. How can India best weave development considerations into future RE policy? What are the capabilities the Indian state needs to do so?.
#G20 pledges to triple RE capacity by 2030. To understand the Indian context, read @parthbhatia92’s definitive systematic review paper on India's electricity transition (300+ papers) - identifies trends & policy research gaps to be plugged for the future.
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My colleagues and I at @SFC_India look forward to seeing you at our launch event tomorrow. We plan to launch four Perspective briefs. Do join us at 6pm (tea at 530pn; reception at 730pm) Tuesday 19th at IIC if you are in Delhi. Details below.
SFC's inaugural event on March 19th features opening remarks by @NKSingh_MP and a discussion on 'Building the foundations for a sustainable future'. Join us at 6 pm at the Multi-Purpose Hall, IIC in New Delhi. RSVP: Learn more about the areas we work in
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There is growing pressure on India to consider a net zero climate target. Should we?.
As an important player in global climate politics and a highly vulnerable country, should India, then, also consider a net-zero target?.
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1/NEW: @adivp333, @ChFlachsland, @ProfKHarrison, @hochstet, M Lockwood, R MacNeil, @mmildenberger, @MatPaterson, Fei Teng, @emilyjtyler & I propose a systematic framework for the study of #climate institutions in @ScienceMagazine (free access link below)
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Building on our first policy brief on a #climate ready-Indian state (: how do we tackle the vexing issue of centre-state relations in climate matters? How do we unlock state action? .(1/5)
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Thank you @AiyarYamini for your leadership of @CPR_India, an institution I was proud to call my intellectual home for many years. And thank you for being a wonderful colleague and friend.
An absolute privilege to have lead & fought for this remarkable institution. CPR's fierce intellectual independence and democratic spirit have enriched me enormously. Delighted that @CPR_India leadership will now be in the very capable hands of my wonderful colleague Srinivas.
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Farewell old friend. What a massive presence you have been and what a huge impact you have had starting from the early days of CAN in 1991. And what a deep personal impact you have had on all of us privileged to share some of the journey with you over the years.
It is with heavy hearts that we inform you about the passing away of our director, Prof. Saleemul Huq, on 29 October, 2023. His unmatched legacy will remain as a shining example for years and generations to come.
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Time to jettison the impoverished idea of an environment-development trade-off. First in my new opinion series #clearingtheair with HT @ramreddy @Ram_Guha @MilanV @AnumitaRoychowd @htTweets
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The debate on whether and how India should pledge a #NetZero target is firmly underway. My take on the opposing views and why net- zero risks being a hollow pledge given our diplomatic, developmental and climate interests. Tomorrow: what should we do?
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In my Expert Voices column in @ScienceMagazine I suggest that policies for climate change mitigation extend far beyond what earlier literature defined as ‘mitigation policy’. Effective ‘climate policy’ may not always be ‘climate’ policy. Comments welcome.
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[NEW POLICY BRIEF] Building a Climate-Ready Indian State. How to revamp Indian climate governance. Pls check it out!.@CPR_Climate @adivp333 @parthbhatia92 @Jairam_Ramesh @sureshpprabhu @HarryWinkler @SamFankhauser @SimonMaxwell001 (1/9).
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There is growing attention to 'framework' climate laws. I think this is a good thing. But there is a risk of cut and paste that elides national context. How else can we approach framework laws?.
.@NavrozDubash in his @ScienceMagazine column -. Countries are increasingly creating “framework laws” on #climatechange. A framework climate law can be imp for a low-carbon future, activating social actors & mainstreaming climate considerations. But must be tailored to national
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Please consider applying. Climate Policy Journal is a leading journal in the field, and getting stronger. This is an opportunity to develop real breadth of knowledge in this area, and to have a say in steering and shaping conversations. Please direct tweet me with any Qs.
JOB ALERT: There is still time to apply for the role of Editor of Climate Policy! This role is a great paid, remote-working opportunity for an academic with a research background relating to climate policy. Read more about the position and apply here 👉
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Pls look out for India in a Warming World, my new edited book with a fabulous collection of policymakers, academics, businesspeople, labour organisers and practitioners laying out the stakes and options for India.
'India in a Warming World' edited by @NavrozDubash is releasing in November 2019. In @bsindia: "This book aims to bring together the many, and growing, voices that seek to find the language and ideas with which to engage climate change." .
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Careful empirical study on India's preparedness for heatwaves and how it can be strengthened by my colleagues @aditya_vpillai & @td0908. They looked at 37 Heat Action Plans and mapped out their response strategies here. Please check the full report at
NEW: Are India’s #heat action plans (HAPs) equipped to deal with extreme heat?. @CPR_Climate assessed 37 HAPs in 18 states and found most plans are poor at targeting the vulnerable, not built for local contexts & underfunded. More in the thread below.
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In an @the_hindu op-ed, Shibani Ghosh @aditya_vpillai and I unpack the Indian Supreme Court's decision outlining a 'right to be free from the adverse effects of climate change'. We call for legislative & institutional changes to give this form. Details in our next oped soon.
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CPR's new blog #Environmentality is live! Please do take a minute to check us out. Comments, ideas, news written by many of our smart and engaged researchers.
We are pleased to announce the launch of our *brand-new* blog, #Environmentality! This blog explores the politics of creating a more #just and #sustainable future, with an eye to questions of #climate and #energy law, policy, and institutions. NOW LIVE:
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Budget 2022-23 features low carbon futures, clean energy, and cities as centres of sustainability. This shift in tone is welcome. Below the hood of the budget is a more mixed story - some gains some losses some questions Our blog from @CPR_Climate
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5/n Very little progress on finance. Are we seeing a JETP’isation of finance – bespoke deals around large country transitions? New work programme on just transition pathways worth watching. MDBs and IFIs brought squarely into the cross-hairs – watch this space.
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India's emissions likely to increase despite solar upscaling - but these emissions may be needed for India to address poverty.
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Very pleased to see India's LT-LEDS released. A good first step to a really important conversation on low carbon development pathways in India. Glad to have worked on this with @AmanJSrivastava @parthbhatia92 @Mandakini_C @CPR_Climate and @kiychettira and Eri Ikeda @iitdelhi.
.@CPR_India, along with @iitdelhi, is pleased to have been the overall anchor institution and technical knowledge partner for India's Long-term Low Emissions and Development Strategy (LT-LEDS) released at #COP27 at Sharm El-Sheikh today.
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In a short @ScienceMagazine piece I argue that natl politics and policy, more than ambition-chasing targets, will be the locomotive that pulls the carbon economy. This implies rebalancing the 'ambition cycle' toward supporting & enabling national processes
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Do join this discussion in which I join @Jairam_Ramesh @BDUTT and Rohini Nilekani to explore COVID19 and climate change linkages. With thanks to the Indian Climate Collaborative for putting this event together.
[WEBINAR]: Resilience, hope: India in the time of COVID19 and climate change | Sat, May 9 | 7PM. @NavrozDubash @BDUTT @Jairam_Ramesh & Rohini Nilekani feature in the first of @IndiaClimCollab's new 3-part series. Register to join us: #ICCNewWorlds
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4/n Intriguing politics around broadening from coal to fossil fuel phase down. India introduced this boldly but it was brushed back. Ultimately a weakening, with ‘low emissions’ (gas maybe, nuclear surely) introduced into the mix.
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10/ Climate mitigation needs an all-of-government, all-of-society approach, but this requires building a climate-ready state. Repurposed or new institutions are needed to.1⃣ coordinate across sectors, scales.2⃣ set long-term strategy.3⃣ manage the politics of disruptive change.
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Climate change as a stress multiplier of India's fraught water situation
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Do take a few minutes to check out @CPR_India's annual report. Particularly significant for a solid performance in a challenging year.
We are delighted to present @CPR_India's annual report for 2022-23. Read more to find out key highlights of our work:.
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Part II - India's forward looking agenda. Sectoral plans with development gains, stronger institutions, medium/long-term economy-wide pledges. Indian leadership lies bending the curve NOW and demonstrating a mitigation friendly development pathway.
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In our @the_hindu op-ed part 2, @aditya_vpillai, Shibani Ghosh and I lay out an institutional vision for India’s climate law - knowledge based ‘low-carbon development commission’; ‘climate cabinet’ to drive strategy; executive coordination body; and mechs for federal engagement.
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Our thanks to @Jairam_Ramesh for multiple conversations and insights on climate governance, and for this plug!.
*Building a Climate-Ready Indian State* by @NavrozDubash @adivp333 @parthbhatia92 lays out a new and transformative approach to #climate governance in India. Here’s @Jairam_Ramesh on CPR’s new brief, and the importance of climate institutions. Read more:
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Messages from a new edited collection India in a Warming World.
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Don't cry for EPCA. Abolished by the new NCR air ordinance - it had outlived it's usefulness. But the new NCR Commission on AQM is unlikely to usher in dramatic change. Born of a bureaucratic imagination, it promises little creativity. #AirPollution.
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If you read one climate piece today, please read my colleague Aditya's @adivp333 detailed study on the realities of impacts and adaptation on the ground. And the resultant complexities of building a climate-ready state in India.
What does it take to adapt to climate change?. I studied seawalls on Karnataka's coast to find that it's messy, and very political. I dive deep in this long form piece in @scroll_in's #CommonGround series: @CPR_India @CPR_Climate
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Time for a serious conversation about a climate law for India. But it has to be one that enables low carbon development pathways. Check out Anirudh Sridhar's two part article in @htTweets based out of CPR's Initiative on Climate Energy and Environment.
An enabling #climate law might be far more effective in securing India’s long-term economic prosperity than a hastily enacted net-zero or carbon-capping law, which might prove ineffective, unenforceable or debilitating, writes Anirudh Sridhar in @htTweets.
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Please stay tuned! We hope to have some exciting and engaging writing on #Environmentality.
📢 It's official: on Wed, Feb 17, we are launching a *brand-new* CPR blog, ENVIRONMENTALITY. 🎉🎉🎉 . This blog will explore the politics of creating a just and sustainable future, with an eye to questions of #climate & #energy law, policy & institutions. #Environmentality
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6/n C markets are the sleeper issue. Disturbing indications of non-transparency on offset deals. Plus a half-baked full-of-holes scheme from Amb Kerry on offsets as a solution to the finance problem
Here's a (hopefully) much neater thread on #Article6 and what's happening here #COP27. But let's not bury the lead: what's being set up is a system of potentially 💩 💰 for carbon. (thanks @CarbonMrktWatch too for ongoing excellent analysis). Here's why 🧵 ↓ :.
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Can India's all-thumbs state take on a green industrial policy? Uphill task but worth thinking about, I argue in @htTweets. @kellysgallagher @joshapte @ramreddy @iatetweet @Chellaney @spacem0nk3y.
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Please join us for what promises to be a great discussion at @CPR_India for a discussion with AS Richa Sharma (MoEFCC), @sunitanar and @harjeet11 to unpack #COP27. Wed Nov 23rd at 530pm IST.
Join @CPR_India for 'Unpacking the Outcomes of the Sharm El-Sheikh COP' on Nov 23 (Wed) at 5:30 PM IST. - Panelists: Richa Sharma (@moefcc), Sunita Narain (@CSEINDIA) and Harjeet Singh (@CANIntl) .- Moderator: Navroz K. Dubash.Register:
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Reactive action taken in the panic of the winter smog won’t solve Norh India's air. We need long term sustained action even when the air seems clear
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A message for our times. A great birthday gift from colleagues at the Initiative on Climate Energy and Environment. Thank you!
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Approaching a new pledge, India should consider our responsibility to the international community but also be thoughtful about what it means for Indian citizens and esp India's poor. As the PA states peaking may take longer for developing countries
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Could India do more? Yes. More sectoral actions, on transport, urbanization, freight networks that consider development and mitigation options together. Interesting snippet in the speech about net zero railways by 2030. More of this would be good. Look forward to seeing the NDC.
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But net zero will drive change today much less than the remaining pledges for 2030: 500 GW non-fossil cap by 2030; 50% renewable energy (tho Mr. Modi almost certainly meant electricity); reduce projected emissions by 1BT; reduce emissions intensity by 45% (presumably from 2005).
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Net zero was diplomatically necessary to avoid the laggard tag. But analysis said India could not rule out risking the anti-poverty agenda if we locked in a rapid (2050) low carbon transition. Then the oft used ‘China plus ten’ for India rule likely played into a 2070 decision.
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Thank you so much to all of you who joined in person for the launch of @SFC_India! Pls check out our website 4 Perspectives papers and the event recording Great to see a standing-room only crowd of 250+!.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for our launch event yesterday. Your support and enthusiasm meant the world to us. Here's a glimpse of the evening. We will share a recording soon. Meanwhile, explore our brand new website and read our perspectives on
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1/ 'Climate policy' is not just 'climate' policy and ‘climate laws’ are not just ‘climate’ laws. Policies and laws from other domains- energy, environment, housing, transport - are relevant to mitigation. Even macroecon & security policies can be seen through a climate lens.
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#cprdialogues2022 kicks off! Excited to be back in an in-person mukti-faceted rich conversation with old friends and new ones including lots of students. Please join us in Delhi and track us online.if not.
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New series on understanding the politics of power in India's states starts today @htTweets starts today #MappingPower @MilanV @RajivKumar1 @CPR_India @natterjee @Ram_Guha @bibekdebroy
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Two hours 45 mins waiting last time I visited - chatted with passengers from Sudan, Turkey, Brazil. Heathrow immigration is a Global South solidarity generator.
Doubters of the global N/S divide need to stand in immigration lines at @londonheathrow. 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 EU 🇦🇺 🇯🇵 🇳🇿 🇸🇬 out in minutes. Rest of the world: stand for hours, 4 counters serving 100s. If this happened in India, there’d be an outcry abt inefficiency, poor service norms… 🙄.
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15/ The chapter has much more. Here’s the link to chapter 13: .Thanks so much my co-CLA @ProfCMitchell, co-conspirator and chapter scientist @parthbhatia92 and authors @ElinLBoasson @MarkJaccard.@frankjotzo @prlankao @shlapak_en @AlexGodoyF_ @XLabandeira.
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Our focus has to now be on the most vulnerable who face huge costs from a lockdown with poor safety net. Yet the virus response provides a stimulus for imagining a better future.
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Delighted to have the chance to chat with @Sandeeppaii and @shreya_jai on#NetZero. How do we find a middle path that enables India to be ambitious without placing transition costs on the back of India's poor? We try to figure this out together on the podcast.
🏮New Episode Alert🏮. There is growing international pressure on #India to declare #NetZeroBy2050. Within India, some support this, others say it'll impede India’s developmental path. We asked @NavrozDubash whether India should declare #NetZero?. Link:
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Very honoured that India in a Warming World made it to this short list compiled by @GreenLitFest The book is available open access at
Put your hands together for the GLF Business Shortlist 2021! Believe us when we say it wasn’t an easy task for the jury to trim down a longlist of 10 to this shortlist – stay tuned to see which of these make the final cut to the Honour List on Dec 8th.
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There was uncertainty about whether PM Modi pledged 50% RE generation or capacity. The Indian Min of External Affairs confirmed it is capacity. What are the implications? Check out (1/n).
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Very grateful to @Climate_Policy for this recognition and my thanks to the excellent @niklashoehne @Prabhat1up and Markus Hagemann for co authoring.
'Developments in national climate change mitigation legislation and strategy' co-authored by @NavrozDubash, Markus Hagemann, @niklashoehne & @Prabhat1up has been selected to appear in @Climate_Policy's list of *top 20 papers* over 20 years of publication!.
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The UNSG has a point - coal is going up in smoke. But more important than pledges for intl coonsumption is domestic planning to help coal communities. India wil not stop coal tomorrow. Use the transition time to help communities adjust rather than prop up coal.
UN secretary general urges India to swiftly turn away from coal
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New paper with @ThomasASpencer in @Climate_Policy - key insight is that development choices, as much as mitigation choices, shape India's emissions future. Climate policy is development policy.
OPEN ACCESS: #India’s development pathway is characterized by a relatively low level of #industrialization, precocious #growth of services, and low and slow urbanization compared to similar countries, say @ThomasASpencer & @NavrozDubash. 👉Read it here👉
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Most interesting is 50% renewable electricity by 2030. Generation instead of capacity target forces consideration of the coal-renewable balance. Both more RE and more coal becomes a harder sell. Coal use could rise but is constrained. As demand plateaus this becomes a coal cap.
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Please check out our new blog #Environmentality. releasing Wed Feb 17th. Preview below. .
[BLOG PREVIEW]: CPR's new blog #Environmentality.launches this week on Wednesday, February 17! 🚀. In this *first glimpse* of the blog, @NavrozDubash asks whether India should consider a #NetZero #climate pledge. Read more:
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Finance call for USD 1 trillion – nice round number! But this is essentially a political signal – we will push for counting money as carefully as counting carbon. Accountability is a two way street.
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6/ Key update: Packages of policies working together are more effective at system transformation and shifting development pathways than individual policies. Eg. the EU's package for efficiency in buildings, or Brazil's package to protect the Amazon in the early 2010s. See table.
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I am delighted to welcome @WP_Pauw.To @Climate_Policy in his role as Editor working with @YacobMulugetta.and myself as co Editors in Chief, as we seek to build on the fantastic work of the outgoing editorial team.
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3/ Policies matter. Regulatory instruments (such as standards or bans) are effective, typically enjoy more public support than taxes, and are used in sectors. If designed with flexibility options, they can be especially effective.
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A huge loss. Kirk's work on indoor air pollution was path breaking. And he was among the early and most influential voices in climate equity back in the early 1990s. All done quietly without seeking the limelight. Thank you Kirk for inspiring many of us to explore these questions.
Kirk Smith . to an amazing friend and mentor who opened the fields of energy, health, and climate to me. 1947 - 2020
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