Second National Research Conference on Climate Change Report

November 5-6, 2011

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CONTENTSDAY 1: NOVEMBER 5, 2011

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Chapter 1 Executive Summary 2

Chapter 2 Introduction 3

2.1 Goals of the conference 3

Chapter 3 Sessions in detail 43.1 Introductory session 43.2 Science/Impacts 4

3.21 Science/Impacts I 43.22 Science/Impacts II 53.23 Science/Impacts III 53.24 Science/Impacts IV 7

3.3 Mitigation 73.31 Mitigation I 73.32 Mitigation II 83.33 Mitigation III 93.34 Mitigation IV 9

3.4 Adaptation 103.41 Adaptation I 103.42 Adaptation II 113.43 Adaptation III 123.5 Government Officials’ session 123.6 Concluding session 13

Chapter 4 Conclusion 14

Annexure I List of scientists/researchers with their affiliations and contact 15

Annexure II Agenda of the conference 19

Organized jointly by IIT Delhi, IIT Madras and Centre for Science and Environment

The Second National Research Conference on ClimateChange was held at IIT Delhi on November 5-6, 2011.Over 100 people participated at the conference

organized by IIT Delhi, IIT Madras and the Centre for Scienceand Environment. Of the 100-plus participants, 50 presentedtalks on their ongoing research.

The talks were broadly divided into three categories: climatescience/impacts, mitigation and adaptation. The conferencesaw a range of different kinds of presentations under eachcategory. Papers related to climate science included study ofclimate parameters, precipitation trends, statisticalmethods, aerosol-cloud interaction and data assimilationusing different methods; papers related to impact of climatechange included impact on rainfall and storm surges,extreme weather events and economy, health, agriculture,livelihood, livestock and electricity demand. Those undermitigation covered green energy deployment, low carboninitiatives, production, technology and patents, geo-engineering research, REDD (Reduced Emissions fromDeforestation and Degradation), transport sector, powersector and burden sharing. Adaptation saw an equally broadrange of presentations—for example, researchers coveredlivelihoods in rainfed areas and drought-affected areas.Researchers also talked about adaptation from acommunity’s perspective, their vulnerabilities, whether theyare capable of adapting to climate change. Presentationswere also given on how resilient a city can be in the eventof a natural disaster and what could be the policyimplications for the changing hydro-climates of India.Mangroves as well as Himalaya eco-system were alsodiscussed in the light of sustainable development.

Apart from running three parallel sessions over two days,there were discussions with government officials. Thegovernment officials included a representative each fromthe Ministry of Earth Sciences, Ministry of Environment andForests and the Department of Science and Technology. Theidea was to get younger scholars to interact withgovernment officials who presented an overview ofgovernment’s existing programmes to promote climate-related research in the country. K J Ramesh of the Ministryof Earth Sciences talked about the Centre for ClimateChange Research in Pune in Maharashtra and that thecentre was focused on studying gaps in research areas suchas aerosol-cloud interaction, impact of climate change on

monsoon and biogeochemistry of special ecosystems. SSatpathy of the Ministry of Environment and Forests talkedabout the ministry’s programme of studying impact of blackcarbon in different regions of India, besides makinggreenhouse gas inventory an annual publication. AkhileshGupta of the Department of Science and Technologydescribed the Climate Change Programme, which aimed atbuilding human and institutional capacities in crucial areasof climate change research.

The conference, second in the series of such conferences onclimate change, achieved its goals. The idea was to broadenengagement on the climate issue and develop an arena topromote interaction among researchers and climate-relatedpractitioners in the country. The idea also was to gain anunderstanding of the gaps in research on climate change inthe country.

From the discussions during the conference and the initialfeedback obtained from participants, the organizers foundthat younger scholars need mentoring on researchmethodology and scientific modeling techniques. They alsoneed more of such platforms and more frequent meetings tostay updated on research activities and fundingopportunities. Younger scholars said they got a freshperspective and feedback that would help them better theirresearch significantly.

There are plans to keep the network of scientists alive andexpand it as well. It will be done either through a newsletterand/or a website where scientists can meet, share andexchange notes on their research activities. A mentoringplan is also in the works whereby senior scientists can trainyounger scholars through workshops or seminars. In anutshell, the future activities will include the following:

Network Website: A website that acts as a commonplatform for researchers to keep the network alive

Newsletter: A trimestral newsletter with updates onfunding for research, current research and jobs

Policy brief: A policy brief on climate change resulting outof inputs from crucial research papers in the country

Mentoring programme: Identification of mentors in

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Chapter 1: Executive Summary

different regions in the country and organizingworkshops/seminars to benefit younger scholars

Annual conference: An annual meet with expandedparticipation of students and researchers from all over thecountry

The Second National Research Conference, organizedby Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Indian Instituteof Technology Madras and Centre for Science and

Environment, was held at IIT Delhi on November 5-6, 2011.Fifty researchers/scientists from all over the countrypresented talks on their ongoing research areas. Of the 50presenters, 17 are among India’s top scientists affiliated toreputed research institutions such as the Indian Institute ofScience in Bengaluru, Indian Statistical Institute in Delhi andTata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai. The othersincluded PhD students from different universities andinstitutions such as Delhi University, Jawaharlal NehruUniversity and Centre for Environmental Planning andTechnology in Ahmedabad (For detailed list of presenterswith their affiliations see Annexure I).

The talks were broadly divided into three themes: climatescience/impacts, mitigation and adaptation, which ransimultaneously in three parallel sessions in the morning andthe afternoon over two days. There were 16 presentationson climate science/impacts, 18 presentations on climatechange mitigation and 16 presentations in climate changeadaptation (For detailed list of presentations see ‘Agenda’ inAnnexure II).

In addition to researchers, the organizers had invited onegovernment official each from the Ministry of Environmentand Forests, Ministry of Earth Sciences and Department ofScience and Technology. The idea behind inviting ministryofficials was to build capacity and, more specifically, to get

officials to interact with younger scholars and discussgovernment programmes related to climate research andfunding opportunities.

The conference was the second in the series of suchconferences. The first conference was organized in March2010.

2.1 GOALS OF THE CONFERENCE

The aim of the series of conferences is to enhance capacityfor climate research and action in India by:

a. Developing an arena for promoting interaction amongresearchers, analysts and practitioners from across thecountry

b. Enhancing understanding of the current state ofactivities and research capabilities in the country andthereby identifying key lacunae

c. Deepening and broadening engagement on the climateissue with a particular focus on smaller academicinstitutions, NGOs and younger scholars

d. Strengthening a sense of ‘community’ amongresearchers

e. Exploring ways to more effectively link climate researchand action programmes

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Chapter 2: Introduction

3.1 INTRODUCTORY SESSION

The introductory session began with a welcome addressby Professor Krishna Achutarao of Indian Institute ofTechnology (IIT) Delhi. The welcome address was

followed by a brief overview of last year’s conference.Achutarao reaffirmed the need for such a conferencebecause in India there is no such platform that covers thegamut of aspects under climate change, especially from aresearch point of view. The platform was not intended forany advocacy purpose, he said. The idea of the conferencewas to create a cross-pollination of ideas as well as providea sense of community and opportunity for emergingresearchers in the country. The researchers would alsobenefit from mentoring by senior scientists, Achutaraoconcluded, as Chandra Bhushan of the Centre for Scienceand Environment took over from him.

Chandra Bhushan presented an overview of the currentstate of affairs with respect to climate change negotiationsat the global level and what is to be expected of theforthcoming Climate Conference of Parties meeting atDurban in South Africa. He explained the politicssurrounding developed world’s demand to push for single-track negotiations instead of the two-track negotiationprocess envisaged in the Bali Action Plan and theconsequence of such a demand—end of the Kyoto Protocol.

3.2 SCIENCE/IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE

The sessions on science/impacts of climate change werespread over two days, November 5-6, 2011. There were twosessions each, on both days. Presented below are highlightsof the presentations in each of the sessions.

3.21 Science/Impacts I

November 5: (Morning Session)SPEAKERSS K Dash: Study of Changes in climate parameters at regional level: Indian ScenariosSharad K Jain: Climate Change and Hydropower generationShreekant Gupta: Economic Impact on Climate ChangeNaresh Kumar: Long term trends of heavy precipitation over northwest Himalayas

SK Dash: Dash’s work is related to temperature and rainfallregional models. He said temperatures as well as shortrainfall events are, in general, increasing in India. Dash andcolleagues have done modeling, which indicates thatMadurai and Vizag will experience maximum temperaturerise in future. He also mentioned that the number of actualworking days—strenuous labour and factory work—inDelhi was decreasing as a result of increase in averagetemperature and that it could translate into loss ofeconomy. Dash also said that IMD has historical data, but itis not available online. Sunita Narain of the Centre forScience and Environment, present at the session, said thatmore of such data should be made available in the publicdomain.

Sharad K Jain: Jain talked about the risks climate changewould pose on hydropower generation. The risks would be

more for run of the river projects because variability inrainfall might affect storage of water, which in turn wouldaffect the demand-supply balance. He suggested largerstorage would make it easier to even out seasonal variation.Citing a UK study, Jain said deglaciation flows in manyIndian rivers would first increase and then quicklydecrease—especially close to the source, while downstreamwould be affected less by a changing climate. Indus will bemost affected, he added. Jain also pointed out anotherproblem that river flow figures are classified.

Shreekant Gupta: Gupta talked about the limits of howmuch we can and should adapt to climate change. Heargued that there are some extreme events that weshouldn’t prepare for as it would be too expensive to do so.He also argued that climate impact should be studied at astate-level rather than regional level, for example Western

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Chapter 3: Sessions in detail

Ghats, since any action is linked to politics and woulddepend on political will.

Naresh Kumar: Kumar has looked at precipitationresulting from western disturbances (weather phenomenonemerging from the Black Sea via western Himalayas). He

said Srinagar experienced higher precipitation than earlier.He pointed out that one of the problems of measuringprecipitation was that weather stations were mostly locatedin cities—far away from places that experienced worseweather conditions.

3.22 Science/Impacts II

November 5: (Afternoon session)SPEAKERSSubimal Ghosh: Finer scale temperature and rainfall projections using statistical downscaling for climate change studiesSagnik Dey: Examination of aerosol-cloud-climate interaction in the India OceanSampa Das: Data assimilation using optimal interpolation: Correcting chemical transport model predictions with satelliteobservationsWN Paunikar: The phage-host interaction as a model for studying carbon regulation in aquatic system

Subimal Ghosh: Ghosh discussed how to get resultsdownscaled from climate models into a more finely detailedpicture using statistical tools. Downscaling is required forany kind of local intervention including flood planning anddrought management, he said. This downscaling is crucialbecause climate models are rough. Ghosh added that hehad found an increased incidence of inequal distribution ofrainfall in India—the rainfall pattern differed more andmore in different parts of the country.

Sagnik Dey: Dey talked about the interaction betweenaerosols and cloud-formation. In general, aerosols havebeen found to cause a cooling effect both by reflecting heatand creating cloud cover, counter-acting some of the effectsof CO2 and other greenhouse gases. It is also believed thatchanges in alteration of cloud active aerosol can alter theprecipitation efficiency of clouds.

However, over the Indian subcontinent and the IndianOcean there is a semi-direct effect of aerosols, where theaerosols, because of their high amounts and large sizes,absorb heat. The heat absorbed by the aerosols dissipatesclouds causing a net climate heating effect.

One of the limitations of cloud cover studies, however, isresults have not been accurate enough to be able to studythe aerosol-cloud interaction. Dey and his team seem tohave overcome this shortcoming. Dey said his studyincluded a more accurate method of measuring smallcumulus clouds through the use of high-resolution satelliteimages. With a more accurate idea of cloud-cover, Dey’steam has been able to confirm the semi-direct effect thataerosols have on clouds and the amount (and size) ofaerosol needed for the semi-direct effect to take place.

Sampa Das: Das’s talk focused on how to adjust certainmodels against observed data of aerosols using statisticaltools.

WN Paunikar: Some of the CO2 in the atmosphere isbound up in the ocean as carbonic acid. But, how thiscarbon reacts and how the oceanic carbon cycle works hasnot been sufficiently studied. Paunikar’s in-vitro studyshows how a phage (virus) in a certain bacteria can convertorganic carbon to inorganic carbon. He showed that withthe phage the conversion of the organic carbon intoinorganic carbon was higher, than without it.

3.23 Science/Impacts III

November 6: Morning SessionSPEAKERSAS Unnikrishnan: Extreme sea-level changes along the east coast of IndiaRC Dhiman: Climate Change and vector borne diseases in IndiaAditi Phansalkar: Exploring the impacts of climate variability on traditional agricultural practices in the villages of TharRB Sharma: Changing climate and its impact on productivity of cowpea and bajra in semi-arid regions

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AS Unnikrishnan: Mean sea level rise is what getsdiscussed in the popular climate change discourse; extremesea level rise events occur mostly in the form of stormsurges. Though there are no clear evidences of changes inthe frequency of tropical cyclones in several ocean basins,intense events are on the increase in many regions, saidUnnikrishnan. The drivers of extreme sea level rise areforced winds, climate variability, tides and an increase inmean sea level rise. Fifty-year return levels of total sea levelsusing tide gauge data were computed along the east coastfor Unnikrishnan’s study. If one calculated surges alonealong the same coast, this looks different taking intoaccount the geographical variations. Combining both the20th and 21st century projections shows us that these stormsurge events mainly arise from mean sea level rise.

To project into the future, combined effects of mean sealevel rise, wind effects and pressure fields were used. Thestudy showed that composite tracks between 1970 and2000 and projected track for 2071-2100 do not show anysignificant trends. Whereas, combined effects of mean sealevel rise and storminess lead to changes in 100-year returnlevels and will be to the order of 5-20 per cent along theeast coast of India.

RC Dhiman: Dhiman’s paper looked at the impacts ofclimate change on vector-borne diseases by studying itsprojected impact on Transmission Windows of Malaria andDengue using PRECIS model by 2030. Dhiman found thetransmission windows becoming longer in northeasternIndia and new regions opening for malaria in westernHimalayas. At the same time there appeared to be areduction in transmission in south and southeastern India,he said. But, this may be counter-acted as mosquitoes canadapt by hiding in forests or in homes with ACs or in watertanks when the weather becomes too warm.

Dhiman added that diseases such as Chikungunya and Kala-azar—borne by mosquitoes and sandflies that benefit fromwarmer climates—have been re-emerging in India since themid 2000s. The spread of dengue and Japanese encephalitisdepends on sanitary standards and access to clean water.The climatic zone for dengue spread already covers most ofIndia. Dhiman also cautioned that certain non-vector bornediseases such as asthma may become more prevalent ascities become hotter—heat and sunlight intermingle withpollution and exacerbate the amount of dangerous ground-level ozone, or smog.

Aditi Phansalkar: The study looked at the impacts ofclimate change on evolving agricultural practices of the TharDesert, focusing on the districts of Barmer and Jodhpur, andhow such mechanisms compound with the existing impactsof climate change. Traditional agricultural practices havebeen gradually replaced with modern tools such as thetractor and tube wells in the last 20 years driven by theincreasing occurrence of droughts, groundwater depletionlevels, increase in family size and increasing commercialcrop production. What used to be mainly rain fed agriculturewas beginning to be supplemented with irrigatedagriculture.

Studies show that climate change is one of the mainreasons leading to the onset of the western storms pushingthe moisture laden monsoon winds away further delayingthe onset of the monsoon winds. Such winds were leadingto the sown seeds getting blown away. The traditionalcoping mechanism comprised of either building baads orafforestation which now due to the scarcity of the baadspecies has given way undertaking of resowing or buyingfood form the market. The study charts the unsustainablepractices that using tractors and bore wells could lead tonotwithstanding advantages such as increased resilienceand social security.

It also charts the application of an intervention called hortipasture initiated by an NGO, which encouraged the plantingof local species and provided the villagers with water andpesticides. Post-intervention, it was found that the landcondition improved, out migration reduced, betterlivelihood generation and lower castes depended lesser onupper castes. Hence, the study advocates for combiningtraditional knowledge systems with climate smartagricultural practices and the introduction of alternativeincome generating options and collective field managementpractices.

RB Sharma: For studying the impacts of climate change onthe productivity of cowpea and bajra, two time periods of1990-99 and 2000-09 were considered, during whichweekly maximum temperature was found to increase andweekly minimum temperature was found to decrease alongwith a decrease in weekly rainfall days. The increase inweekly maximum temperature led to a decrease in bajraproductions and an increase in cowpea production.

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3.24 Science/Impacts IV

November 6: Afternoon SessionSPEAKERSSarath Guttikunda: Non-Traditional Sources of Pollution in Indian CitiesEshita Gupta: Global warming and local cooling: Impact of Climate Change on electricity demand of India Puneeta Pandey: Assessing the Summer-time Urban Heat Island over Delhi: A case study of micro-level ClimateChangeM Karthik: Impact of methane emissions from wastewater sector in India through a case study of an effluent treatmentplant

3.31: Mitigation I

SPEAKERSE Somanathan: Learning rates and green energy deployment game Soumen Maity: Low carbon Initiatives in the Indian Brick Sector Soumyananda Dinda: Production, Technology , Patents and Carbon emission Gagan Preet Kaur: Developing Capacity of stakeholders towards green factories: An action review K Ravi Srinivas: Open Innovation, open source models in the context of technology development

E Somanathan: US, China and Japan have the highestdeployment rates with the EU leading the group. Within fiveyears, the EU has increased its PV capacity from 5 GW to 40GW, also suggestive of the very high learning rate in solar.Owing to the drastic increase in solar PV deployment thathas happened internationally in the past few years, theauthors developed a model to compute what parameterswould give policymakers the edge in bringing down global

solar deployments costs and whether cooperation—and theextent to which it will—impact the reduction in deploymentcosts. Results of the model showed that solar costs levelledwith that of coal in almost the same time period regardlessof whether countries cooperated or not. It was found thatcooperation between countries did not matter as much aslooking forward (jumping in first). Hence, for short-sightedpolicymakers, some foresight was better than none. A Nash

Sarath Guttikunda: Guttikunda explained non-traditional sources of emission and their interaction in theatmosphere. A number of India-related case studies werepresented, which demonstrated the changes in air pollutionparameters due to such non-traditional sources. The studyrevealed the pollution caused due to high congestion during2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi. The PM2.5 emissionsof Delhi and the PM10 emissions of Chennai were spatiallyanalyzed to recognize the different sources of pollution. Thefour major non-traditional sources of pollution are brickkilns, high altitude sources, freight movement and domesticsector. Guttikunda suggests strategies to tackle thesesources of pollution and also presents the benefits of thesestrategies in six Indian cities by 2020.

Eshita Gupta: Using electricity demand-temperaturecurves, Gupta has investigated the link between risingglobal temperatures and electricity demand in India. Thisanalysis, conducted for a number of states, revealed that thetemperature corresponding to minimum electricityconsumption is decreasing and the cooling demand duringsummers is increasing rapidly.

Puneeta Pandey: The study aims at assessing theformation of Urban Heat Island in Delhi and its relationshipwith aerosols using remote sensing and GIS.

M Karthik: Karthik first discussed the global scenario ofmethane gas emissions from the wastewater sector. Indiacontributes 19 per cent of the world’s total methaneemissions from wastewater. Then, the author described themethodologies of how he estimated the amount of methaneproduced in the city of Nagpur. The methane generationcalculated (in kg/day) by the different methodologiesshowed significant variance. The author concluded thatmethane gas emissions from wastewater sector areincreasing annually with rise in population, urbanizationand consumption.

3.3 CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION

The sessions on climate change mitigation were spread overtwo days, November 5-6, 2011. There were two sessionseach on both the days. Presented below are highlights ofthe presentations in each of the sessions.

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regime (without cooperation) was good enough butcooperation was better.

Soumen Maity: India is the second largest producer ofbricks in the world. It produces 170 billion bricks per yearand this number is expected to almost double by 2020. Thecurrent production contributes 150 million tonnes ofgreenhouse gas emissions per year, apart from being thelargest consumer of agricultural soil. Despite the largenumbers, it remains an unorganized and even ignoredsector. A rough estimate is it employs 12 million people,seasonally, and has an annual turnover of Rs 460 billion. Theindustry uses dated technology and there is huge potentialfor emissions reduction in the sector.

Soumyananda Dinda: The study tries to form linksbetween technological and income growth to study thepolicy implications that such a link might hold forcontrolling pollution or lowering CO2 emissions. For thisDinda used income data and the number of patentsregistered at the US patent and trademark office. Thediscussion raised questions regarding the use of only designpatents as a proxy for the innovating capacity of a country.

Gagan Preet Kaur: In evaluating the need andeffectiveness of stakeholder participation in the transition togreen factories, this study focused on indoor environmentalquality among other parameters such as water and materialconservation, energy efficiency and site selection.Participants from both the factories were provided trainingto increase their awareness on issues such as indoorenvironmental quality and green rating system. Pre- andpost-intervention assessments showed the stakeholders’perceptions and knowledge levels were impacted in apositive manner.

K Ravi Srinivas: Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), asused in the top-down technology transfer approach, canlead to protectionism and stifle sharing of knowledge andadapting technology to local conditions. The study looked atmeans and ways to overcome this by using IP towardsencouraging others to contribute and still protect IP, such asnon-exclusive licencing. Examples such asbiopharmaceutical initiative between 39 organizations,WBCSD eco-patents and Green Exchange were discussed.

3.32: Mitigation II

November 5: Afternoon SessionSPEAKERS:G Bala: Should we do geo-engineering research?NH Ravindranath: Climate change and forests as well as implications: REDDRidhima Gupta: Emissions from agricultural residue burning in north-west India: Causes and the evaluation of atechnology-policy responseSudheesh Ramapurath Chemmencheri: REDD+ in India: Social costs of climate mitigation

G Bala: Bala presented his paper on the consideration ofgeo-engineering research as a technology to deal withclimate change issues in case of a planetary urgency. Geo-engineering is defined as the intentional, large scale,manipulation of the climate system and deals with twomajor schemes: Solar Radiation Management (SRM) andCarbon Dioxide Removal (CDR). He stressed, however, thatprevention—reduction in early emissions—rather than cureshould be the approach.

NH Ravindranath: Ravindranath highlighted the fact thatdeforestation contributes largely to CO2 emissions anddiscussed the Greening India Mission and its objectives. Heconcluded that there is a limitation of data on area, biomassand carbon stock.

Ridhima Gupta: Burning of crop residues is a majorsource of generation of black carbon, the second-highest

contributor of global warming after CO2. At high elevations,black carbon accelerates melting of glaciers and contributesto the formation of atmospheric brown clouds thatnegatively impact rice yields. A viable alternative is toencourage development of machines that allow farmers toplant wheat into the loose rice residue. This is the recentlydeveloped Happy Seeder technology that performs thisfunction. It is a tractor mounted machine that can sowwheat into the rice residues left by the combine harvesterthereby precluding its burning. Charles Stuart University,NSW Department of Primary Industries, International RiceResearch Institute and the Punjab Agricultural Universityhave developed the technology. Gupta and team found thatHappy Seeder technology was a viable alternative to open-field burning of rice residue in Punjab and that it was acheaper alternative to conventional tillage. Compared toplots that were conventionally tilled, Happy Seedertechnology users saved about Rs 1000-Rs 1060 ($23) on

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average in field preparation costs.

Sudheesh Ramapurath Chemmencheri:Chemmencheri’s presentation focused primarily on the legalpolicies and issues that exist in India pertaining to the

society in the context of climate change. He presented adetailed background of the origin of REDD and REDD+ anddiscussed how to work towards sustainable management offorests by enhancing carbon sinks, afforestation and revivalof degraded forestland.

3.33: Mitigation III

November 6: Morning SessionSPEAKERSDinesh Mohan: Moving in slow cities for survivalGeetam Tiwari: Low carbon mobility plans for Indian citiesDeepak Singh: Simulating the changing electrical consumption patterns and rebound effects: A foresight scenario for2050Parul Gupta: Tracking the anthropogenic drivers of carbon dioxide emissionsPankaj Sadavarte: Climate footprint of selected Indian emission sectors

Dinesh Mohan: Mohan’s study discussed the need to havea negative feedback mechanism system to achievesustainable urban transportation. He said that the currenteconomic philosophies in urban transport systems violatethe fundamental principle of achieving stability. Moreovermost transportation policies have positive feedback systemsembedded in them. Mohan showed the relationshipbetween private transport energy use per capita and urbandensity of people/ha in major cities of the world. As theurban density decreases the private transport energy useper capita increases. Mohan also presented the life cycleemissions of rail and road modes. The study also estimatedCO2 emissions per passenger in Delhi Metro and Delhi bus.The CO2 emission per passenger for Delhi Metro is morethan double than that of Delhi Bus. Mohan also presentedthe pros and cons of solutions that have been used in citiesof high-income countries.

Geetam Tiwari (Her research assistant Deepty Jainpresented the paper): To restrain the rising CO2

emissions levels in cities, public transport system andinfrastructure to promote non-motorized transport need tobe improved. The study showed the modal share in sixdifferent cities in India. The study developed three scenarios

to assess the impact of bus infrastructure and non-motorized infrastructure on CO2 emission. Jain showed thatimproving non-motorized infrastructure and businfrastructure was required to reduce emissions from megaand large cities.

Deepak Singh: Singh explained the concept of reboundeffect and its relationship with electrical consumptionpattern.

Parul Gupta: For the analysis, Gupta categorized states onthe basis of emission and income. Using IPAT identityprocedure, she found income to be the primary driver ofemissions for most states. Gupta concluded that emissionsin the future are expected to be high and highlighted theimportance of environmental federalism.

Pankaj Sadavarte: The objective of Sadavarte’s study wasto calculate emissions from four different industrial sectors:thermal power plant, transport, brick kiln and open burningin agriculture. Sadavarte concluded that while there arerules to keep tabs on the thermal power plant sector, it wastime the focus moved to transport as well as agriculture toachieve any emissions reduction.

3.34: Mitigation IV

November 6: Afternoon SessionSPEAKERSSurender Kumar: Carbon sensitive productive growthT Jayaraman: A paradigm for equitable access to sustainable developmentAnubhab Pattanayak: Climate change burden sharing: A reappraisal of the equity debatePradeep Gautam: Climate change, environmental security and regional cooperation

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Surender Kumar: Kumar linked factors of productivity,innovation, CO2 mitigation and a host of other factors in amulti-country study through a statistical regression analysis.He found that mitigation is cheaper (although still highlyexpensive) for developing countries than developed ones.But growth is impacted more in developing countriescompared to developed countries. He reiterated the existingdivergence between developing and developed countries interms of growth.

T Jayaraman: Jayaraman talked about carbon budget andconsidering historical emissions, the Annex I countriesshould get no carbon space at all. He, however, cited apossible division for emitting carbon for the 2010-2050period. Of 371 gigatonne of carbon (GTC) emitted by 2050,Annex I countries could emit 50 GTC and the non-Annex Icountries could emit the remaining.

Anubhab Pattanayak: Pattanayak showed calculationson how to share the climate mitigation burden, whichincludes the principle of victim compensation whilecomputing the cost of the burden. Other factors such as lossin agricultural production and per capita idea of burden

sharing should be followed, he said. In a multi-country studygrouping countries after income, population, emissions andthe impact climate change would have on the country, heshowed how different calculations yielded different resultsand which was most appropriate to compensate countrieswhere emissions and income is low and impact of climatechange would be high. He stressed that while developingcountries should focus on green innovation, they should notbe pressured with the mitigation burden.

Pradeep Gautam: Gautam lobbied for more regionalthinking on climate change. He stressed that more basicresearch and sharing of data is needed in South Asia. Healso talked about climate refugees and how it can affectrelations in South Asia.

3.4 CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION

The sessions on climate change mitigation were spread overtwo days, November 5-6, 2011. There was one sessions onNovember 5 and two sessions on November 6. Presentedbelow are highlights of the presentations in each of thesessions.

3.41 Adaptation I

November 5: Morning SessionSPEAKERSArivudai Nambi: Community based adaptationH Pathak: Efficient nitrogen management for climate change mitigation and adaptation in agricultureHita Unnikrishnan: Rural-urban transition and vulnerabilities to climate change: A case study of a village in BengalurucityBhaskar Padigala: Social capital and local institutions: A perspective to assess communities’ adaptation potential toclimate changeRajeev Ranjan: The value of natural resource management in adaptation and building resilience to climate changeArchitesh Panda: Adaptation to climate variability and change among small and marginal farmers in Odisha

Arivudai Nambi: Nambi approached adaptation toclimate change from a community’s point of view saying itis the grassroots component of climate change adaptationand that community’s knowledge is fundamental fordeveloping adaptation strategies. Nambi also pointed outthe priority areas for research with respect to climatechange adaptation.

H Pathak: Pathak explained how nitrogen from theagriculture sector needs better attention and managementby exploring linkages between fertilizer use, foodproduction and nitrogen emission.

Hita Unnikrishnan: Unnikrishnan’s research site wasParappana Agrahara village, looking at land use change,

current impacts of climate change faced by the village andurban transition and climate vulnerability.

Bhaskar Padigala: Padigala talked about how to assesscommunities’ adaptation potential in Miyar watershed inthe northeastern part of Lahaul and Spiti districts ofHimachal Pradesh.

Rajeev Ranjan: Ranjan talked about the value of naturalresource management in adaptation and building resilienceto climate change with a case study based in Jharkhand. Hissite was in Bero block of Ranchi and he looked at droughtmanagement from the perspective of climate changeadaptation.

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Architesh Panda: Variations in monsoonal rains and littleinstitutional support towards adaptation have put farmersof Bolangir and Nuapada districts in Odisha in a tizzy. Eventhe autonomous adaptation, something that the farmerscould have carried out on their own were no longer possibleas the traditional varieties of paddy which the farmers used

during drought or water-stressed seasons were all lostbecause they were no longer in cultivation. The distributionof rains has also changed and higher losses were reportedfrom such crop damages, Panda found from his survey onover a hundred farmers households to map their personallevel adaptation strategies.

3.42 Adaptation II

November 6: Morning SessionSPEAKERSRamasamy Krishnamurthy: Applying a climate disaster resilience index to enhance planning decisions in ChennaiUpasna Sharma: The role of education in enhancing adaptive capacity to climate risk: Emperical evidence from coastalzones in IndiaSakshi Saini: Communication for development enabled approaches for climate change adaptation and mitigation: A casestudy of urban poor womeSujit Kumar Mishra: Adaptation and sustainable livelihoods: Policy implications in the challenging hydro-climates of IndiaPK Viswanathan: Development of restoration of mangrove ecosystems in the context of emerging climate risks:Interventionist policies and outcomes in IndiaArijit Das: Collective action in mid-Himalayan region for sustainable development

Ramasamy Krishnamurthy: Krishnamurthy talked aboutChennai in the light of urban disaster risks. Increase inpopulation density, social conflict, urban infrastructure anddeteriorating infrastructure have put the city at a high riskof climate disaster. His study developed a methodology toassess the climate disaster resilience index, which includeda 5*5 matrix having five parameters and five differentvariables for every parameter. The study found areas withhigher economic development, lower population densityand better environmental condition had higher resiliencelevels. Low values of resilience were found for old anddensely populated areas.

Upasna Sharma: Sharma’s paper brought out thateducation reduces the impacts one faces during naturaldisasters. The study was conducted in the cyclone-affectedstates of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh and the eventsadministered for research included cyclonic events in 2005and 2006 in Krishna, Nagapattinam and Guntur districts.

Sujit Kumar Mishra: The main objectives of Mishra’sstudy were to study different adaptation options to droughtin Orissa and Andhra Pradesh. The study analyzed thecapability of poor rural households to adapt with thechanging pattern of livelihood and the key factors thatdetermine difference in outcome.

Sakshi Saini: Women impacted by poverty are moreseverely affected by climate change, Saini said. By 2025,more than 50 per cent of the population in developingcountries would inhabit cities and the urban poor, especiallywomen, would face the brunt of climate change. The studycovered 300 households in Delhi. She found thatCommunication for Development integrates the use ofcommunication strategies, media and processes to enablepeople and institutions to share knowledge and informationand reach consensus towards common action. Acommunication module based on AIDA (Attention, Interest,Desire and Action) was developed for urban poor women.

PK Viswanathan: Viswanathan studied mangroves, theirbenefits and how their absence would affect livelihoods. Healso talked about the mangrove restoration in Gujarat andabout climate change issues, challenges, policies andinstitutional imperatives.

Arijit Das: Das worked on developing an econometricmodel and emphasized the four major areas that influencesuccessful collective action. They are resourcecharacteristics, group characteristics, relations betweenresource and users and institutional organization andexternal environment.

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November 6: Afternoon SessionSPEAKERSJagriti Kher: Climate Change and water vulnerability at the household level in India Mrutyunjay Swain: Drought, vulnerability, coping capacity and residual risk: Evidence from Bolangir district in westernOdisha Asmita Bharadwaj: Livelihoods in rainfed areas and the challenge of climate adaptation Sujata Majumdar: Does adaptation provide positive effects at the farm level?

Jagriti Kher: Given that climate change will havesignificant impacts on the availability and access of water inthe future, it was noted that the current HDI/HPI assessoverall development but do not capture water-relatedpoverty problems. A climate vulnerability index wasdeveloped, the different components for which used water-related impacts as the basis.

Mrutyunjay Swain: Swain’s study assesses the impacts ofclimate change and repeated drought occurrence inBolangir district. It also analyzes the vulnerability based onsocioeconomic and biophysical conditions. For this, it uses amulti-stage sampling method selecting from blocks,households, villages and households to represent thenecessary spatial cross section. It also develops indicatorssuch as drought vulnerability index and droughtadaptability index. Based on different index scores, smallfarmers were found to be among the most vulnerable whilelarge farmers, the least. Also, marginal farmers would be themost challenged in adapting whereas service holders weremost likely to adapt to drought conditions. The one recurrentcause of vulnerability across the different study blocks andlivelihood groups was the lower crop insurance coverage.Some of the other reasons included high poverty levels, highlevel of illiteracy and higher level of unirrigated land. Theanalysis revealed that while the drought risk level varieswidely across the blocks and the extent of droughtvulnerability and physical exposure to drought variesmoderately, the coping capacity of different blocks varymarginally. Some of the concluding policy measuresidentified were increase in irrigation coverage, increase ingroundwater usage by providing better electricity access tofarmers, increasing crop insurance coverage andoccupational diversification.

Asmita Bharadwaj: Bharadwaj presented a briefoverview of various challenges faced in rainfed agricultureand adaptation strategies involving methods such as croprotation, mixed cropping patterns and change in cropduration.

Sujata Majumdar: Majumdar studied the cost ofcultivation practices before and after adaptation in two

villages in the state of West Bengal. She measured themusing farm business income, family labour income and netincome.

3.5 GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS’ SESSION

The government officials’ session comprised three talks. Theofficials invited were KJ Ramesh of the Ministry of EarthSciences, Akhilesh Gupta of the Department of Science andTechnology and S Satpathy of the Ministry of Environmentand Forests. They all discussed various initiatives respectiveministries have taken to support research activities in thearena of climate change. Following are the highlights fromtheir talk:

K J Ramesh: Ramesh mentioned the ministry had set upthe Centre for Climate Change Research in Pune. Heemphasized that the research focus was on gap areas likeaerosol interaction, impact on monsoon andbiogeochemistry of special ecosystems.

S Satpathy: Satpathy talked about the report, India’sGreenhouse Gas Emissions 2007, released in 2010. Prior tothis, the only official greenhouse gas emission estimateswere available for the year 1994. He mentioned that theministry is keen on making it an annual publication. He alsodiscussed the new programme meant to assess the impactsof black carbon in different regions of India. In this regard,the environment ministry has collaborated with otherministries, research organisations and academic institutes.

Akhilesh Gupta: Gupta described the Climate ChangeProgramme (CCP), which is aimed at building human andinstitutional capacities in the thrust areas of climate changeresearch. This capacity building programme has three broadcategories-Creation of New Centres of Excellence onClimate Change, Strengthening of existing institutions, andMajor Human Capacity Building Programmes on climatechange. He mentioned that the CCP has included all thebroad areas of research on climate change. DST hasindentified top 30 institutions in the country, which areworking on climate and climate change related aspects.These were invited to submit proposals for project support

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from DST. Twenty-nine proposals from 21 institutions werereceived. These proposals went through a rigorous selectionprocess and finally 11 projects were selected for projectsupport. IIT Bombay and ICRISAT Hyderabad have beenselected to become centres of excellence. Gupta alsodiscussed a few problems that the CCP was facing. He saidscientists are not keen on working together for the sameresearch category and also that DST is getting similarproject proposals from different departments of the sameinstitute.

3.6 CONCLUDING SESSION

The organizers—Sunita Narain of CSE, Ambuj Sagar of IITDelhi and Sudhir Chella Rajan of IIT Madras—presided overthe concluding session. They discussed plans and futurepossibilities and asked suggestions of participants on how

to keep the scientists network active so that there isconstant learning and knowledge sharing betweenresearchers. Emphasizing that science and research wouldremain at the centrestage of a future conference and thenetwork, Narain said there is an increasing need tounderstand climate science better. Besides, it was importantto build capacity especially among younger scholars, saidSagar of IIT Delhi. “In future, the conference would be morecomprehensive in covering research areas. We have felt theneed to expand our reach and we will involve morestudents,” said Sagar. Welcoming the ministries’ initiativestowards promoting climate change research, Rajan of IITMadras recommended engaging senior scientists andexperts to mentor younger scholars. The areas of researchmethods and climate modelling need special attention andworkshops could be organized as a part of the mentoringprocess, researchers suggested.

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The Second National Research Conference on ClimateChange, organized by Centre for Science andEnvironment, IIT Delhi and IIT Madras, achieved its

objectives. The conference helped promote interactionamong researchers, analysts and practitioners of climatechange research. Along with the senior scientists present atthe conference, the moderators for sessions—Ambuj Sagarof IIT Delhi, Sunita Narain of CSE, Sudhir Chella Rajan of IITMadras, Krishna Achutarao of IIT Delhi and ChandraBhushan of CSE—interacted with and guided youngerscholars on how to take their research forward andfacilitated interesting discussions with other participantsduring the conference. Because of the conference—and theabstracts researchers sent, which went through a rigorousselection process—there was an enhanced understandingof the existing research capabilities and certain gaps couldbe identified. Among the issues that came to the forefrontwere more emphasis (guidance) is needed on researchmethods and scientific modeling techniques. Differentavenues were discussed to strengthen the sense of‘community’ among researchers.

The organizers are currently exploring possibilities of awebsite dedicated to the researchers’ network and/or anewsletter that will keep researchers regularly informedabout research and funding opportunities and ongoingresearch in the country, besides hosting another conferencenext year. The organizers are also planning to select theinteresting papers and publishing it.

Most participants said they gained a lot of exposure as aresult of attending the conference. They said they gotvaluable feedback on their research and they now have arange of new research papers to read so that they can stay

updated. A few participants suggested workshops/seminarsshould be organized in cities so that researchers can meetand discuss each other’s work.

Emails have been sent to all the participants for theirfeedback on the conference and suggestions on networkingactivities.

Overall, the conference met its objectives and helped gainclarity on what to do next to keep the researchers’ networkalive and to promote research on climate change in thecountry.

In a nutshell, the following measures would be undertakento ensure a network is created and maintained so thatresearchers can continue to benefit from each other:

Network Website: A website that acts as a commonplatform for researchers to keep the network alive

Newsletter: A trimestral newsletter with updates onfunding for research, current research and jobs

Policy brief: A policy brief on climate change resulting outof inputs from crucial research papers in the country

Mentoring programme: Identification of mentors indifferent regions in the country and organizingworkshops/seminars to benefit younger scholars

Annual conference: An annual meet with expandedparticipation of students and researchers from all over thecountry

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Chapter 4: Conclusion

Name Email ID Designation and Institution Title of the presentation

S K Dash skdash@cas.iitd.ac.in Professor and Head, Centre for Study of changes in climate

Atmospheric Science, IIT Delhi parameters at regional level:

Indian scenarios

Sharad K Jain jainsfwt@iitr.ernet.in Professor (Neepco Chair), Department Climate change and hydropower

of Water Resources Development and generation

Management, IIT Roorkee

Shreekant Gupta sgupta@nus.edu.sg Professor, Department of Economics, Economic Impacts of Climate

Delhi School of Economics Change

Naresh Kumar naresh.nhac@gmail.com Meteorologist (Himalayan Meteorology Long-term trends of heavy

Cell), National Weather Forecasting precipitation over northwest

Centre, India Meteorological Himalayas

Department

Eswaran Somanathan som@isid.ac.in Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Learning rates and the green

Institute, Delhi energy deployment game

Soumen Maity smaity@devalt.org Team Leader - Technology Transfer & Low carbon initiatives in the Indian

Management, TARA and Programme brick sector

Director, Development Alternatives

Soumyananda Dinda sdinda2000@yahoo.co.in Associate Professor, Department of Production, technology, patents

Economics, Chandragupt Institute of and carbon emission

Management Patna

Gagan Preet Kaur gaganpreet66@gmail.com Research Scholar, Dept. of Resource Developing capacity of

Management and Design Application, stakeholders towards green

Lady Irwin College, University Of Delhi factories: An action review

K Ravi Srinivas Krsriniv@gmail.com Associate Fellow& Managing Editor: Open innovation, open source

Asian Biotechnology & Development models in the context of

Review RIS - Research & Information technology deployment and

System For Developing Countries transfer in adaptation and

mitigation strategies for climate

change

A Nambi arnambi@yahoo.com Project Director [Climate Change] Community based adaptation

MS Swaminathan Research Foundation

H Pathak him_ensc@iari.res.in Senior Scientist, IARI Efficient nitrogen management for

climate change mitigation and

adaptation in agriculture

Hita Unnikrishnan hita.unnikrishnan@atree.org PHD Student, ATREE, Bengaluru Rural urban transition and

vulnerabilities to climate change—

A case study of a village in

Bengaluru

Bhaskar Padigala padigala.bhaskar@gmail.com Student, Faculty of Sustainable Social capital and local

Environment and Climate Change, institutions: A perspective to

Center for Environmental Planning assess communities’ adaptation

and Technology potential to climate change

Rajeev Ranjan raj.ranjan4u@gmail.com Programme Officer Lohardaga Gram The value of natural resource

Swarajya Sansthan, Lohardaga, management in adaptation and

Jharkhand building resilience to climate

change

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Annexure I

Architesh Panda architesh@gmail.com PhD student, Institute for Social and Adaptation to climate variability and

Economic Change, Bangalore change among small and marginal

farmers in Orissa, India

Subimal Ghosh subimal.ghosh@gmail.com IIT Bombay Finer scale temperature and rainfall

projections using statistical

downscaling for climate change

studies

Sagnik Dey sagnik@cas.iitd.ac.in IIT, Delhi Examination of Aerosol-Cloud-

Climate Interaction in the Indian

Ocean

Sampa Das sampa.iitb@gmail.com IIT Bombay Data assimilation using optimal

interpolation: Correcting chemical

transport model predictions with

satellite observations

WN Paunikar wn_paunikar@neeri.res.in Principal Scientist, Applied Aquatic The phage-host interaction as a

Ecosystem Division, National model for studying carbon regulation

Environmental Engineering Research in aquatic system

Institute

G Bala gbala@caos.iisc.ernet.in IISc Bengaluru Should we do geoengineering

research?

NH Ravindranath ravi@ces.iisc.ernet.in IISc Bengaluru Climate change and Forests as well

as implications REDD

Ridhima Gupta rydhma7p@isid.ac.in Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Emissions from Agricultural Residue

Delhi Burning in North-west India: Causes

and the Evaluation of a Technology

Policy Response

Sudheesh Ramapurath rcsudheesh@gmail.com Final year student, Integrated Master of REDD+ in India: Social Costs of

Chemmencheri Arts in Development Studies Climate Mitigation

AS Unnikrishnan unni@nio.org National Institute of Oceanography, Goa Extreme sea level changes along

the east coast of India

RC Dhiman r.c.dhiman@gmail.com National Institute of Malaria Research climate change and vector borne

diseases in India

Aditi Phansalkar araditiphansalkar@gmail.com B.Arch. M.Tech (Climate change and Exploring the Impacts of Climate

Sustainable Development), Center for Variability on Traditional Agricultural

Environmental Planning and Technology, Practices in the villages of THAR

(CEPT), Ahmedabad.

Suresh Sharma scsharma@scientist.com Senior Scientist, CSWRI Avikanagar Changing climate and its impact on

(Rajasthan) productivity of cowpea and bajra in

semi-arid region

Dinesh Mohan dmohan@cbme.iitd.ac.in IIT-D Moving in slow cities for survival

Geetam Tiwari geetamt@gmail.com IIT-D Low Carbon Mobility Plans for Indian

Cities

Deepak Singh deepaksinghconvent@gmail.com Research Scholar, Centre for the Studies Simulating the Changing Electrical

in Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru Consumption Patterns and Rebound

University, Effect: A Foresight Scenario for 2050

Parul Gupta parul.gupta@teri.res.in Research Associate, Centre for Global Tracking the Anthropogenic Drivers

Environment Research,TERI of CO2 Emissions Growth in India: A

State Level Analysis

Pankaj Sadavarte pankaj.sadavarte@gmail.com IIT Bombay Climate footprint of selected Indian

emission sectors

Name Email ID Designation and Institution Title of the presentation

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Upasna Sharma upasna.sharma@gmail.com Post-doc Research Scholar, The role of education in enhancing

International Institute of Applied adaptive capacity to climate risk:

Systems Analysis (IIASA), Schlossplatz empirical evidence from coastal

1, A-2361, Laxenburg, Austria zones in India

Sakshi Saini aatishkaa@gmail.com PhD Scholar, University of Delhi, Dept. Communication for Development

of Development Communication and (C4D) enabled approaches for

Extension Climate Change adaptation and

mitigation: a case study of urban

poor women

Ramasamy rrkrishnamurthy@gmail.com Principal [on deputation], University of Applying a climate disaster

Krishnamurthy Madras Arts and Science College resilience index to enhance planning

decisions in Chennai

Sujit Kumar Mishra sujitkumar72@gmail.com Assistant Professor, Council for Social Adaptation and Sustainable

Development Livelihoods: Policy Implications in

the Challenging Hydro-climates of

India

PK Viswanathan pkviswam@gmail.com Associate Professor, Gujarat Institute of Development and Restoration of

Development Research, Ahmedabad Mangrove Ecosystems in the

Context of Emerging Climate

Change Risks: Interventionist

Policies and Outcomes in India

Arijit Das arijitdas22@gmail.com Ph.d Scholar, Center for Economic Collective action in mid-Himalayan

Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal region for sustainable ecosystem

Nehru University

Sarath Guttikunda sguttikunda@gmail.com Urban Emissions Info Non-Traditional Sources of Pollution

in Indian Cities

Eshita Gupta eshita8r@isid.ac.in Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi Global Warming and Local Cooling:

The impact of climate change on

electricity demand in India

Puneeta Pandey puneetapandey@gmail.com Assistant Professor, Centre for Env Assessing the Summer-time Urban

Sciences &Technology, School of Env & Heat Island over Delhi: A case study

Earth Sciences, Central University of micro-level Climate Change

of Punjab

M Karthik m_karthik@neeri.res.in Wastewater Technology Division. Impact of methane emissions from

National Environmental Engineering wastewater sector in India through a

Research Institute case study of an effluent treatment

plant

Surender Kumar surender672@gmail.com University of Delhi Carbon Sensitive

Productivity Growth

T Jayaraman tjayaraman@tiss.edu TISS A paradigm for equitable access to

sustainable development

Anubhab Pattanayak anubhab.pattanayak@gmail.com Madras School of Economics, Climate Change Burden Sharing:

A Reappraisal of The Equity Debate

Pradeep Gautam pkgautam2003@yahoo.co.in Research Fellow, Institute for Defence Climate Change, Environmental

Studies and Analyses, New Delhi Security and Regional Cooperation

Jagriti Kher jagriti28@gmail.com Ph.D Scholar, University of Delhi Climate change and Water

Vulnerability at the Household level

in India

Mrutyunjay Swain mrutyunjay77@gmail.com Research Officer, Agro-Economic Drought Vulnerability, Coping

Research Centre, Sardar Patel University, Capacity and Residual Risk:

Vallabh Vidyanagar - 388120, Gujarat Evidence from Bolangir District in

Western Orissa, India

Name Email ID Designation and Institution Title of the presentation

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Asmita Bharadwaj Abhardwaj3@amity.edu, Assistant Professor, Amity School of Livelihoods in Rainfed Areas and the

ab345@cornell.edu Architecture and Planning, Amity Challenge of Climate Change

University, NOIDA Adaptation

Sujata Majumdar sujatamajumdar85@yahoo.com Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Is adaptation positive for rural

economy at the farm level?

K J Ramesh kj.ramesh@nic.in, Adviser/Scientist-’G’, Ministry of

kjramesh2607@gmail.com, Earth Sciences

kjramesh2607@yahoo.com

Akhilesh Gupta gakhilesh2002@yahoo.co.in, Adviser/ Scientist-G & Coordinator-

akhilesh.g@nic.in Climate Change Programme &

Coordinator- MoST-MHRD Grand

Alliance, Department of Science &

Technology

S Satpathy ssatapathy-mef@nic.in Scientist ‘F’/Director, Climate Change

Division, Ministry of Environment

and Forests

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Name Email ID Designation and Institution Title of the presentation

National Research Conference on Climate ChangeIndian Institute of Technology Delhi

November 5-6, 2011

DETAILED PROGRAMMEDAY 1: NOVEMBER 5, 2011

REGISTRATION (VENUE: V LT 1) - 08.00 to 09.00TEA (VENUE: V LT 1) - 09.00 to 09.15

INTRODUCTION (VENUE: V LT 1)Dr. Krishna Achutarao, IITD — 09:15 to 09:30

Chandra Bhushan, CSE — 9.30 to 09.45

SESSION I - 10:00 to 13:00SCIENCE & IMPACTS (VENUE: II LT 2)

Moderator: Chandra Bhushan

S K Dash Study of changes in climate parameters at regional level: 10.00 to 10.30Indian scenarios

Sharad K Jain Climate Change and hydropower generation 10.30 to 11.00Shreekant Gupta Economic Impacts of Climate Change 11.00 to 11.30Akram Javed Impact of climate change on watershed levels in Rajasthan 11.30 to 12.00Naresh Kumar Long-term trends of heavy precipitation over northwest 12.00 to 12.30

Himalayas

MITIGATION (VENUE: III LT 1)Moderator: Ambuj Sagar

Eswaran Somanathan Learning rates and the green energy deployment game 10:00 to 10:30Soumen Maity Low carbon initiatives in the Indian brick sector 10.30 to 11.00Soumyananda Dinda Production, technology, patents and carbon emission 11.00 to 11.30Gagan Preet Kaur Developing capacity of stakeholders towards green 11.30 to 12.00

factories: An action reviewK Ravi Srinivas Open innovation, open source models in the context 12.00 to 12.30

of technology development and transfer in adaptation and mitigation strategies for climate change

ADAPTATION (VENUE: III LT 2) Moderator: Krishna Achutarao

Arivudai Nambi Community based adaptation 10:00 to 10:30H Pathak Efficient nitrogen management for climate change mitigation 10.30 to 11.00

and adaptation in agricultureHita Unnikrishnan Rural-urban transition and vulnerabilities to climate change: 11.00 to 11.30

A case study of a village in Bengaluru cityBhaskar Padigala Social capital and local institutions: A perspective to assess 11.30 to 12.00

communities’ adaptation potential to climate change

Organized jointly by IIT Delhi, IIT Madras and Centre for Science and Environment

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Annexure II

Rajeev Ranjan The value of natural resource management in adaptation 12.00 to 12.30

and building resilience to climate change

Architesh Panda Adaptation to climate variability and change among small 12.30 to 13.00

and marginal farmers in Odisha

LUNCH (VENUE: THE PAVILION, IIT SPORTS GROUND) - 13.00 to 14.30

SESSION II - 14.30 to 16.30 SCIENCE & IMPACTS (Venue: III LT 1)

Moderator: Sudhir Chella Rajan

Subimal Ghosh Finer scale temperature and rainfall projections using 14.30 to 15.00statistical downscaling for climate change studies

Sagnik Dey Examination of aerosol-cloud-climate interaction in the 15.00 to 15.30Indian Ocean

Sampa Das Data assimilation using optimal interpolation: Correcting 15.30 to 16.00chemical transport model predictions with satellite observations

W N Paunikar The phage-host interaction as a model for studying carbon 16.00 to 16.30regulation in aquatic system

MITIGATION (VENUE: III LT 2)Moderator: Sunita Narain

Govindaswamy Bala Should we do geo-engineering research? 14.30 to 15.00

N H Ravindranath Climate change and forests as well as implications: REDD 15.00 to 15.30

Ridhima Gupta Emissions from agricultural residue burning in north-west 15.30 to 16.00India: Causes and the evaluation of a technology-policy response

Sudheesh Ramapurath REDD+ in India: Social costs of climate mitigation 16.00 to 16.30

Chemmencheri

TEA (VENUE: II LT 2) - 16.30 to 16.45

SESSION III - 16.45 to 18.00RESEARCH FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES (VENUE: II LT 2)

Moderator: Ambuj SagarK J Ramesh, Ministry of Earth SciencesAkhilesh Gupta, Department of Science and TechnologyS.Satpathy, Ministry of Environment and Forests

DINNER (Venue: SILVER OAK LAWNS, INDIA HABITAT CENTRE) - 19.00 onwards

DAY II: NOVEMBER 6, 2011SESSION I - 09.30 to 12.30SCIENCE & IMPACTS (VENUE: II LT 1)

Moderator: Sudhir Chella Rajan

A S Unnikrishnan Extreme sea-level changes along the east coast of India 09.30 to 10.00

R C Dhiman Climate change and vector borne diseases in India 10.00 to 10.30

Aditi Phansalkar Exploring the impacts of climate variability on traditional 10.30 to 11.00

agricultural practices in the villages of Thar

Ramesh Upadhyay Climate change and long-term impacts on livestock in India 11.00 to 11.30

Gaurav Arya Impact of climate change on food security and cereal 11.30 to 12.00

production in India

Suresh Sharma Changing climate and its impact on productivity of cowpea 12.00 to 12.30

and bajra in semi-arid regions

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MITIGATION (VENUE: II LT 2) Moderator: Ambuj Sagar

Dinesh Mohan Moving in slow cities for survival 09.30 to 10.00

Geetam Tiwari Low carbon mobility plans for Indian cities 10.00 to 10.30

B Sengupta Status of fine particulate matter/black carbon management 10.30 to 11.00

in India with special reference to climate change

Deepak Singh Simulating the changing electrical consumption patterns and 11.00 to 11.30

rebound effects: A foresight scenario for 2050

Parul Gupta Tracking the anthropogenic drivers of carbon dioxide emissions 11.30 to 12.00

growth in India: A state-level analysis

Pankaj Sadavarte Climate footprint of selected Indian emission sectors 12.00 to 12.30

ADAPTATION (VENUE: III LT 2)Moderator: Krishna Achutarao

Upasna Sharma The role of education in enhancing adaptive capacity to 09.30 to 10.00

climate risk: Empirical evidence from coastal zones in India

Sakshi Saini Communication for development enabled approaches for 10.00 to 10.30

climate change adaptation and mitigation: A case study of

urban poor women

Ramasamy Krishnamurthy Applying a climate disaster resilience index to enhance 10.30 to 11.00

planning decisions in Chennai

Sujit Kumar Mishra Adaptation and sustainable livelihoods: Policy implications 11.00 to 11.30

in the challenging hydro-climates of India

P K Viswanathan Development of restoration of mangrove ecosystems in the 11.30 to 12.00

context of emerging climate risks: Interventionist policies and

outcomes in India

Arijit Das Collective action in mid-Himalayan region for sustainable 12.00 to 12.30

development

LUNCH (VENUE: THE PAVILION, IIT SPORTS GROUND) - 13.00 to 14.00

SESSION II - 14.00 to 16.30 SCIENCE & IMPACTS (VENUE: II LT 1)

Moderator: Chandra Bhushan

Sarath Guttikunda Non-traditional sources of pollution in Indian cities 14.00 to 14.30

Eshita Gupta Global warming and local cooling: The impact of climate 15.00 to 15.30

change on electricity demand in India

Puneeta Pandey Assessing the summer-time urban heat islands over Delhi: 15.30 to 16.00

A case study of micro-level climate change

M Karthik Impact of methane emissions from wastewater sector in India 16.00 to 16.30

through a case study of an effluent treatment plant

MITIGATION (VENUE: II LT 2) Moderator: Sudhir Chella Rajan

Surender Kumar Carbon sensitive productivity growth 14.00 to 14.25

T Jayaraman A paradigm for equitable access to sustainable development 14.25 to 14.50

Tejal Kanitkar Energy in a carbon budget regime 14.50 to 15.15

Anubhab Pattanayak Climate change burden sharing: A reappraisal of the equity 15.15 to 15.40

debate

Monica Dutta Implementing efficient pricing of emissions trading in an 15.40 to 16.05

exchange economy

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Pradeep Gautam Climate change, environmental security and regional 16.05 to 16.30cooperation

ADAPTATION (VENUE: III LT 2) Moderator: Ambuj Sagar

Jagriti Kher Climate change and water vulnerability at the household 14.00 to 14.30level in India

Mrutyunjay Swain Drought, vulnerability, coping capacity and residual risk: 14.30 to 15.00Evidence from Bolangir district in western Odisha

Asmita Bharadwaj Livelihoods in rainfed areas and the challenge of climate 15.00 to 15.30change adaptation

Kirtika Rana Policy spaces for individual and collective strategies for 15.30 to 16.00adaptation

Sujata Majumdar Is adaptation positive for rural economy at the farm level? 16.00 to 16.30

TEA (VENUE: SEMINAR HALL LOBBY) - 16.30 to 16.45

CONCLUSION (Venue: SEMINAR HALL)16.45 to 17.30

Sunita Narain, CSE, Sudhir Chella Rajan, IIT Madras and Ambuj Sagar, IIT Delhi

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