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Agenda for India’s Green Recovery
February 24, 2021 | Kartikeya Singh In a post-Covid, climate constrained world, India must use its limited resources judiciously to establish a better growth path for its people and environment. Action in these five areas can trigger maximum returns and create the systemic change India needs for success.

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Productive Competition: A Framework for U.S.-China Engagement on Climate Change
January 21, 2021 | Sarah Ladislaw The Biden administration’s approach to addressing climate change must reflect a new geopolitical environment based on productive competition.

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The Biden Administration Should Look to a Surprising Source for Climate Policy Inspiration: Australia
December 14, 2020 | Lachlan Carey Australia’s “Technology-Led Approach” shows how climate policy can reach across the aisle and leave a legacy of institutional and technological change. Biden should learn from Australia and forget carbon prices, invest in clean technologies, and build green institutions.

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Japan Seeks Carbon Neutrality by 2050
November 2, 2020 | Jane Nakano Japan announced a carbon neutrality goal for 2050 and envisions its future as a global clean energy technology leader. While challenges and questions abound, innovation will be key for a successful energy and industrial transformation to meet its climate pledge.

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Covid-19 Could Put China’s Clean Energy Agenda on Hold
April 30, 2020 | Jane Nakano, Lachlan Carey How will the Covid-19-induced economic slowdown affect China’s clean energy trajectory as the world continues to face the parallel crisis of climate change?

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India’s Coal Tax Is Key to Stabilizing Its Energy Transition
February 7, 2020 | Kartikeya Singh The Indian government has taken significant measures to encourage the growth of the clean energy industry, but the recent proposal to kill its tax on coal would be a step in the wrong direction.

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The Role of LNG in the United States’ Indo-Pacific Strategy
October 24, 2019 | Nikos Tsafos CSIS’s Nikos Tsafos discusses the origins, goals, and limits of LNG’s role in the Trump administration’s U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy in his essay as part of the National Bureau of Asian Research’s recent special report.

Commentary
Creating a National Electricity Market: India’s Most Important Power Sector Reform
August 19, 2019 | Kartikeya Singh

In Modi’s second term, a special focus on altering the structure of the power sector may be the key to powering the India’s long term economic growth, argues CSIS’s Kartikeya Singh.

Commentary
Optimizing India's Electricity Grid for Renewables Using AI and Machine Learning Applications
July 9, 2019 | Kartikeya Singh India aims to add over 100 GW of renewable energy capacity to its grid. As the country’s states grapple with this while implementing other power sector reforms, artificial intelligence could prove useful to successfully using this abundant source of clean energy.

Commentary
Pathways for Developing a Natural Gas Vehicle Market
March 13, 2019 | Kartikeya Singh

CSIS’s Kartikeya Singh discusses the lessons from five countries on how to create a natural gas vehicle market.  

Commentary
China’s Nuclear Power Sector: What It Is and What It Is Not (Yet)
February 19, 2019 | Jane Nakano

CSIS energy expert Jane Nakano takes a look at China’s recent, rapid expansion of its domestic nuclear power generation fleet and what it means for the United States and other Western countries.

Commentary
The Center of Coal Demand Keeps Shifting
October 15, 2018 | Nikos Tsafos

Unless Asia can find other energy sources to meet its needs, our efforts to curb CO2 emissions from coal will likely fail, as CSIS energy expert Nikos Tsafos writes in a new commentary.

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