From 2-15 December, 2018, almost 200 countries gathered at the 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Katowice, Poland to adopt a set of guidelines to limit global warming. During this event, India reaffirmed its promise to implement the Paris Agreement, collectively with other countries. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, India has increased the pace of its climate change mitigation efforts and is becoming increasingly ambitious in its attempts to address this issue.

Senior Research Associate
Yagyavalk Bhatt is an energy professional with more than seven years of experience in the transportation and electricity domain. His…
Yagyavalk Bhatt is an energy professional with more than seven years of experience in the transportation and electricity domain. His research focuses on transportation demand planning, demand and supply models of energy and transportation systems, and cost-benefit analysis. His work includes policy analysis of South Asia’s clean energy transition. His work also focuses on the impact of supply- and demand-side policies on the adoption of fuel-efficient transportation modes and their associated energy demand. He has authored and contributed to numerous research papers and studies related to the transportation and electricity sectors. Yagyavalk has a master’s degree in renewable energy management and engineering from The Energy Resource Institute (TERI) University, India, and a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communication.
Expertise
- Policy Analysis
- Transport Demand Modeling
- Sustainable Transport
- Clean Energy Transition
- Renewable Energy and Climate Change
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Insights from India’s Journey to Over 100 Gigawatts of Renewable Energy
From 2-15 December, 2018, almost 200 countries gathered at the 2018 United Nations Climate Change…
7th December 2022
Indiaʼs Updated NDC: A Pathway to Net-Zero by 2070?
From 2-15 December, 2018, almost 200 countries gathered at the 2018 United Nations Climate Change…
16th October 2022