Mandakini Chandra

Energy, development, climate change | @YaleEnvironment MEM '25 | Ex-@CPR_Climate/@CPR_India, @WRIIndia, @SustainMcGill/@mcgillu

[Jesse D. Jenkins @JesseJenkins]

What if you want to procure clean electricity to meet your demand, hour-by-hour, but you don't know precisely what your demand profile is? Can it still work? A new ZERO Lab report on 24/7 carbon-free electricityu procurment led by @wilson_ricks finds out...

[Carbon Brief @CarbonBrief]

Analysis: Record surge of clean energy in 2024 halts China’s CO2 rise | @laurimyllyvirta

Read here: https://t.co/prbNpHRwTA

[Ben Serrurier @benserrurier]

Heading into the new year with some fresh new funding!
• The opportunistic corporate equity: $135M
• Letter of credit and term loan facility: $120M

Same all-star team of partners and the same big goal: clean, reliable and abundant power everywhere.

https://t.co/4plOg5N0WS

[Sparkfund @sparkfunder]

What if utilities could make the grid more reliable, boost local economies, and expand access to clean energy? 🎙️ Hear CEO @plafarge and @drvolts on the Volts podcast discuss how utility-led deployment of DERs can do just that: https://t.co/wT5yzOQucZ

[Carbon Brief @CarbonBrief]

Interactive: The pathways to meeting the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C limit | Uta Kloenne, Dr Debbie Rosen, Gaurav Ganti, Dr Alexander Nauels, @‌CarlSchleussner @joerirogelj @‌piersforster @rtmcswee @‌CONSTRAIN_EU #CBarchive

🎨 Tom Pearson @‌tomoprater

Read ➡️ https://t.co/KXyJugL1fX

[Bhasker @BhaskerTripathi]

🚨 #New

India's #GreenCredit prog could end up profiting businesses responsible for deforestation.

Overlooking suggestions from its internal committee, Indian government allows private plantations--grown to compensate for deforestation--generate credits.
https://t.co/cnaTK0n5fq

[Navroz K Dubash @NavrozDubash]

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.

[Grantham LSE @GRI_LSE]

How can we deliver a gender-inclusive climate transition in India? Join us next week for an online discussion with Reema Nanavaty @GariSahai @NayakSuravee @KarSohini and Dr Swayamprabha Das.
Chaired by @N_Kabeer and hosted with @LSEGenderTweet

[BloombergNEF @BloombergNEF]

An Energy Transition To-Do List For 2024:

🌬️Get a grip on wind power & grids
💥Unleash clean energy deployment in emerging economies
📈Lock in demand for clean industrial materials

@albertwycheung discusses the must-do's to achieve net-zero by 2050. https://t.co/2mGkuHVe6V

[kanika mahajan @kanmahajan]

We write in this article about how droughts increase gender disparities in employment in India. Stemming from lower mobility of women who are unable to access non farm opportunities outside village, non farm employment of men increases relatively

[Rahul Verma @rahul_tverma]

The Indian Voter

this issue of @StudiesIndian has a special section drawing on @LoknitiCSDS surveys with papers from @PalshikarSuhas @kailashkk @jmishra23 @sanjaycsds Divya Vaid, Sanjeer Alam, Shreyas Sardesai, Pradeep Chiibber & me.

Link: https://t.co/ndnaNvoGEU

[Navroz K Dubash @NavrozDubash]

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)

[COP28 UAE @COP28_UAE]

"I am tired in saying it. Long-term capital is needed in order to be able to stop us from being forced to choose between people and planet.”

Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados speaks at the World Climate Action Summit.

#COP28 #UniteActDeliver

[Navroz K Dubash @NavrozDubash]

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 https://t.co/Xa3RjtC7ff.

[Sustainable Futures Collaborative @SFC_India]

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 2024. Meanwhile, check out https://t.co/tXEQ7O4Orw for more.

[John Bistline @JEBistline]

You can read our article for free in Environmental Research Letters: https://t.co/NgrVCuOmIb

Here's a short thread of our key findings…

@IOPenvironment @dan_kammen

[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

Goodnight #COP28

All I've spoken to today, inc battle-hardened COP veterans, seem genuinely impressed by day 1 loss & damage fund deal + no agenda fight

Next, 1st draft due overnight on global stocktake; its language on fossil fuels cld quickly shift today's mood…

[Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta]

NEW from me: Potential inflection point in China. Thanks to a huge increase in solar and wind buildout, China's CO2 emissions will peak if clean energy additions are kept at 2023 expected level, and energy demand growth doesn't accelerate.

The even larger expansion in manufacturing of solar panels and other clean energy equipment suggests potential for expansion of clean energy additions far above 2023 levels. At the same time, there is a risk of a pushback: the clean energy expansion threatens coal interests in a more serious way than ever before, and the electricity grid will need to be reformed to keep absorbing all of the variable renewable power.

The clean energy industry has become economically far more important and powerful due to the expansion, and the clean energy buildout enjoys strong political backing, so there is hope that these obstacles can be overcome.

[Bhargav Krishna @bhargavkrishna]

All this to say that we already know what must be done. It isn't quick fixes, but long, boring institutional work that requires patience and persistence. We have neither, and so we end up every year where we are right now. (n/n)

[Bhargav Krishna @bhargavkrishna]

As delhi's air quality hits the headlines again and we're discussing why it is so and what can be done, i'm plugging here some past work the relevance of which has only increased over time. (1/n)