of the Research & Publications Committee, IIMA June 2014 RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE Prof. Sobhesh Kumar Agarwalla Prof. Amit Garg (Chair) Prof. Ravindra H. Dholakia Prof. Debjit Roy Prof. Rama Mohan Turaga Prof. Neharika Vohra In charge Layout & Design Research & Publications Office Publications Department E. V. Narayanan For further information, contact: Research & Publications, Indian Institute of Management, Vastrapur, Ahmedabad 380 015 Phone: 91-79-6632 4791 v Fax: 91-79-2630 6896 v email: respub@iimahd.ernet.in v Website: www.iimahd.ernet.in/publications Abstracts of Articles published in “A” Category refereed journals Role of energy efciency in climate change mitigation policy for India: Assessment of co-benefts and opportunities within an integrated assessment modeling framework In Climatic Change, 123, 2014, 597 - 609 Chaturvedi, Vaibhav and Shukla, P. R. Addressing the challenges of global warming requires interventions on both the energy supply and demand side. With the supply side responses being thoroughly discussed in the literature, our paper focuses on analyzing the role of end use efciency improvements for Indian climate change mitigation policy and the associated co-benefts, within the integrated assessment modeling framework of Global Change Assessment Model (GCAM). Six scenarios are analyzed here in total- one no climate policy and two climate policy cases, and within each of these one scenario with reference end use energy technology assumptions and another with advance end use energy technology assumptions has been analyzed. Te paper has some important insights. Final energy demand and emissions in India are signifcantly reduced with energy efciency improvements, and the role of this policy is important especially for the building and transportation sector under both reference and climate policy scenarios. Tough energy efciency policy should be an integral part of climate policy, by itself it is not sufcient for achieving mitigation targets, and a climate policy is necessary for achieving mitigation goals. Tere are signifcant co-benefts of energy efciency improvements. Energy security for India is improved with reduced oil, coal and gas imports. Signifcant reduction in local pollutant gases is found which is important for local health concerns. Capital investment requirement for Indian electricity generation is reduced, more so for the climate policy scenarios, and fnally there are signifcant savings in terms of reduced abatement cost for meeting climate change mitigation goals. Period covered April 1, 2013 until March 31, 2014 P. R. Shukla is Pro- fessor in the Public Systems Group. His current interests are in Energy Ef- ficiency, Energy- Environment Mod- elling, Renewable Technologies, De- centralized Planning, Integrated Assess- ment Modelling and Climate Change Policy Analysis. shukla@iimahd.ernet.in