CONTENTS List of Tables, Figures, Boxes, and Maps viii Foreword xvii Acknowledgements xix List of Abbreviations xxi Introduction: Infrastructure Lock-in and a Low Carbon Growth Path for India xxv by Partha Mukhopadhyay SECTION I LEGAL AND REGULATORY ISSUES 1.Infrastructure Regulation for Low Carbon Economy: Survey of Key Issues and Concerns 3 Videh Upadhyay 2.Low Carbon Path for Meeting the Electricity Needs of the People: Role of Regulatory Commissions 16 Pramod Deo and Vijay M. Deshpande 3.Economics, Regulation, and Implementation Strategy for Renewable Energy Certificates in India 42 Anoop Singh SECTION II FINANCING INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT ALONG Low CARBON TRAJECTORY 4.Financing Low Carbon Infrastructure in India 61 Dhruba Purkayastha, Manisha Gulati, and Sunder Subramanian 5.Private Equity Financing for CleanTech Infrastructure 77 Pinaki Bhattacharyya and Shishir Maheshwari 6. High Cost Carbon and Local Government Finance 87 Patricia Clarke Annez and Thomas Zuelgaray 7.Towards India Evergreen: The Role of Micro-Finance Institutions 106 Ashok Singha, Papia Chakraborty, Suvra Majumdar, and Vijay Mahajan SECTION III ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE 8. Drivers of Energy Efficiency Industries: Indian and International Experience in Infrastructure 123 Lenora Suki 9. International Trading of Emission Rights: Its Implications for Low-Carbon Growth in India 144 Vijay P. Ojha 10. Moving Towards Low Carbon Economy: The Need for Renewable Energy Solutions 155 Part 1 Renewable Energy in India: Capability, Challenges, and Prospects Ashish Garg, Manisha Gulati, and Nachiketa Tiwari Part 2Captive Solar: Does it Make Business Sense? 177 Abhijeet Deshpande and Rohit Chadha 11. Decentralized Distributed Generation for an Inclusive and Low Carbon Economy for India 186 Chandmshekar lyer, Rajneesh Sharma, Ronnie Khanna, and Akil V. Laxman 12. Captive Generation in India: The Dilemma of Dualism 197 Tirthankar Nag 13. Implementing Clean Coal Technology in India: Barriers and Prospects 208 Mcdti Goel 14. The Nuclear Energy Imperative : Addressing Energy Poverty, Energy Security, and Climate Change in India 222 Manpreet Sethi SECTION IV TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE 15. Reconciling Economic Growth with Low Carbon Mobility in India : Addressing the Challenges 237 Kaushik Ranjan Bandyopadhyay 16. Putting Urban Transport Sector on a Low Energy and Low Carbon Path : A Focus on the Passenger Transport Sector in Million-Plus Cities 258 Akshima T. Ghate and Sanjivi Sundar 17. Pollution-Energy-Carbon Intensity of Urban Transport in India : Dynamics of Government Policy Intervention 272 Rita Pandey 18. Carbon Dioxide Emission Reduction Potential from Civil Aviation Sector : A Case Study of Delhi-Mumbai Air Route 287 Yenneti Komal Irani and Joshi Gauravkumar 19. Multi Modal Transport in a Low Carbon Future 310 Sanjiv N. Sahai and Simon Bishop 20. Urban Transport and Climate Change: Issues and Concerns in the Indian Context 331 Dinesh Mohan SECTIONV URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE 21. Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, and Impacts in India's Cities 345 Kala Seetharam Sridhar 22. Low Carbon Intensity Urban Planning Strategies for India 355 Part 1The Growing Cities of India: Towards Susta inability and Emission Reduction Ramakrishna Nallathiga Part 2Climate Change and Urban Planning Strategies for India 366 Sweta Byahut 23. Unking Regeneration and Business with Competitiveness for Low Carbon Cities : Lessons for India 374 Shaken Singhal, Jim Berry, and Stanley McGreai SECTION VI RURAL INFRASTRUCTURE 24. Towards A Carbon-Neutral Rural India 393 Part 1Challenges and Opportunities in Agriculture Sreenath Dixit, J.V.N.S Prasad, E.M.K. Raju, and B. Venkateswarlu Part 2Carbon Sequestration Options in Forestry 407 Bhaskar Sinha, Anoma Basu, and Anuj Singh Katiyar 25. Is There a Role for Agricultural Offsets in Sustainable Infrastructure Development? : A Preliminary Assessment 413 Jyoti Gujral, S. Davenport, andS. Jayasuriya 26. Local Dynamics in the Adoption and Implementation of Low Carbon Technologies : The Case of West Bengal 422 Dilip Kumar Ghosh SECTION VII INFRASTRUCTURE REVIEW 27. The Infrastructure Sector in India, 2009-10 435 Manisha Gulati