RMI Outlet
India
Reducing Embodied Carbon Is Key to Meeting India’s Climate Targets
While India’s buildings-related CO2 emissions have more than doubled between 2000 and 2017, the indirect emissions have almost tripled.
Greening India’s Homes and Vehicles with Low-Cost Finance
Pursuing low-carbon development is central to India’s Paris Agreement climate goals. In this pursuit, net-zero energy buildings (NZEBs) and electric vehicles (EVs) are the two high-leverage areas. The ability to deliver vast emissions reductions across rural and urban settings has brought NZEBs and EVs to the center of the climate…
Electrifying Trucking from Delhi to Shenzhen & San Francisco
Across the world, the sheer volume of goods being moved over highways, roads, and city streets grows by the day. Global road freight demand, driven by GDP and population growth, is expected to increase by more than 45 percent over the next two decades—leading to over 60…
Weathering Climate Risks
Without resilience planning, climate change threatens the pace of the energy transition, in addition to affecting overall energy security and the social benefits that clean energy affords.
Opportunities for Cleaner, More Efficient Freight Transport in India
India is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. Driven by the rising demand for goods and services in India, demand for freight transport is expected to grow fivefold over the next three decades.