Low carbon scenarios for transport in India: Co-benefits analysis

Subash Dhar and Priyadarshi R. Shukla

Energy Policy, 2015, vol. 81, issue C, 186-198

Abstract: Dependence on oil for transport is a concern for India's policymakers on three counts – energy security, local environment and climate change. Rapid urbanisation and accompanying motorisation has created some of the most polluting cities in India and rising demand for oil is leading to higher imports, besides causing more CO2 emissions. The government of India wants to achieve the climate goals through a sustainability approach that simultaneously addresses other environment and developmental challenges. This paper analyses a sustainable low carbon transport (SLCT) scenario based on sustainable strategies for passenger and freight mobility, vehicle technologies and fuel using global CO2 prices that correspond to 2°C global stabilisation target. The scenarios span from years 2010 to 2050 and are analysed using the energy system model-ANSWER MARKAL. The SLCT scenario has improved energy security (cumulative oil demand lower by 3100Mtoe), improved air quality (PM 2.5 emissions never exceed the existing levels) and the cumulative CO2 emissions are lower by 13billiontCO2 thereby showing that achieving development objectives with CO2 co-benefits is feasible.

Keywords: Transport demand; CO2 mitigation; Co-benefits; Energy security (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2014.11.026

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