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India's Low Carbon Strategies for Inclusive Growth - a dilemma

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Lots of assumptions but little to act upon in the Planning Commission report on low carbon growth

It will take around $834 billion to put the Indian economy on a low carbon mode taking its emission intensity in 2030 down by 42% as compared to 2007 levels. This is the macro picture drawn by the Low Carbon growth study commissioned by India’s Planning Commission.

http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/india-s-carbon-footprint-dilemma-114052101099_1.html