GCP CanberraGCP URCM Seminar
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Location: Conference Room 1, Climate Change Research Hall at the National Institute for Environmental Studies
Organized by Global Carbon Project (GCP)
Speaker: Prof. Sudhakar Yedla
Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, India
Topic: Urban Energy and Carbon Intensity in India and its Determinants – A Household Level Analysis
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Abstract
Change in Energy Consumption Patterns can be explained by two factors - Natural increase based on population growth and demographic changes; and Increasing economic activity and development. While the former was responsible, to a large extent, in the pre-growth era, later dominates the energy intensity trajectory in the rapid growth stages of economy. These factors interplay and in turn influence the overall energy intensity of growth. In Asia and the Pacific, the population growth was 16.23% during the period 1982-1990 and this was the prime driver for the growth in energy consumption. Post 1990 (during the rapid economic growth) factor 2 has also played a significant role in the growth in energy consumption that touch 5.6%.
As the cities and the urban centers experience both the population surge due to increasing migration and also economic development they experience one of the highest energy intensities in the countries not only in this region but world over. Use of inferior technologies intertwined with the `less developed state of the economy` eventually leave the urban centers with heavy carbon footprints. Energy and carbon intensity of urban centers is influenced, to a large extent, by the energy consumption by the households (HH). Energy consumption of HHs is a function of various socio-economic and cultural factors, which are distinctly different for Urban and Rural populations. The present study address such differences and assesses how energy intensive are the cities in India and compare them with the rural areas and the overall energy intensity of the country.
Speaker Profile
Professor Sudhakar is currently working in the Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research and has previously held, among others, positions with the National Institute of Technology (India), the University of Ulsan (Korea), the Institute for Global Environmental Studies (IGES) (Japan), or served as an International Consultant for the UN-ESCAP, UNDP.
