Mitigation & Adaptation to Climate Change

Mitigation & Adaptation to Climate Change

1 Concept of mitigation and adaptation

  1. Introduction
  2. Means of Mitigation and Regulatory Measures
  3. Technology Innovations
  4. Planning
  5. Market Mechanisms
  6. Social Mechanisms
  7. Mitigation Cost and Benefits

2 Climate-resilient pathways

  1. Technologies for Sustainable Development
  2. Promotion of Non-conventional and Renewable Energy Sources
  3. Energy Conservation
  4. Natural Resource Management (NRM)
  5. Integrating Climate Resilience Strategies into Policy Formulations

3 Global institutional mechanisms

  1. Modes of Global Intervention
  2. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
  3. Environment Focused Global Institutions
  4. Sectoral Focused Global Institutions
  5. Energy Related Institutions
  6. Non-bank Development Focused Institutions
  7. Multilateral Development Banking Institutions

4 Adaptive strategies and capacities

  1. From Adaptation to Adaptive Capacity
  2. Characterizing Adaptive Capacity
  3. Determinants for Adaptive Capacity
  4. Strengthening Adaptive Capacity
  5. Adaptation Planning for Resilience
  6. Adaptation Strategies

5 Economic policy instruments for reducing GHG emissions

  1. Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
  2. Emission Trading
  3. Renewable Energy Certificates
  4. Carbon Accounting, Taxation, Credits and Offsetting

6 Agriculture

  1. Agricultural Revolutions in India
  2. Strategies for Sustainable Agriculture Management
  3. Strategies for Land Degradation Management
  4. Strategies to Manage Irrigation Water
  5. Strategies to Manage Organic Matter in Soils
  6. Strategies for Sustainable Livestock Management
  7. Strategies for Sustainable Grazing Land Management
  8. Strategies to Reduce Losses in the Food Supply Chain
  9. Strategies for Managing Changing Indian Diet

7 Forestry and other land uses

  1. Forests as Land-use
  2. Deforestation
  3. Afforestation
  4. Afforestation in Degraded Site
  5. Forest Management to Increase Carbon Density
  6. Silvicultural Management
  7. Forest Tending

8 Interrelationships between mitigation and adaptation in agriculture

  1. Adapting to Climate Change in the Agriculture Sector
  2. Mitigation of Climate Change in the Agriculture Sector
  3. Interactions between Mitigation and Adaptation
  4. Climate-Resilient Pathways

9 Carbon capture and sequestration

  1. Carbon Capture and Sequestration โ€“ An Overview
  2. Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration
  3. Geological Carbon Sequestration
  4. Oceanic Carbon Sequestration
  5. Applications of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Technology
  6. Potential Advantages of CCS Technology in Climate Mitigation
  7. Limitations of the CCS Technology
  8. CCS in Climate Change Debate
  9. CCS in Sustainable Transformation of Global Energy System

10 Energy systems

  1. Conventional (Non-renewable) Energy Sources
  2. Renewable Energy Technologies
  3. Nuclear Energy
  4. Transmission and Distribution Losses
  5. Diversification in Energy Supply: Perspectives from India

11 Biofuels

  1. Biofuels
  2. Categories of Biofuels
  3. Potential for Biofuels

12 Industry

  1. Overview of GHG Emissions from Industries
  2. Potential of Industrial Sector for Reducing GHG Emissions
  3. Energy Efficiency
  4. Emission Efficiency
  5. Material Efficiency
  6. Promoting Climate Resilient Industry

13 Transport systems

  1. Global Energy Emissions
  2. Concept of Auto Efficiency
  3. Efficiency and GHG Emissions
  4. Design Strategies for Automotive Energy Efficiency
  5. Technology Assessment- Incremental Approach vs Fundamental Analysis
  6. Emissions Intensity
  7. Drivers of Emission Intensity โ€“ Energy Intensity, Fuel Mix and Fuel Carbon Intensity
  8. Fuel Efficiency Technologies
  9. Implications for Climate Cooperation

14 Human Health

  1. Adaptation Measures – Clinical and Public Health Interventions
  2. Public Health Perspectives on Climate Change
  3. Public Health Actions to Address Climate Change
  4. Strengthening Public Institutions
  5. Strengthening Investment
  6. Strengthening Primary Health Care
  7. Strengthening Education
  8. Resilient Health-Service Infrastructure

15 Buildings

  1. Energy Use in Buildings
  2. High-Performance Commercial Buildings
  3. Intelligent Building
  4. Green Building
  5. Zero Energy and Energy Plus Buildings
  6. Retrofitted Buildings

16 Waste Management

  1. Waste Generation
  2. Interlinkages between Waste Generation and Climate Change
  3. Waste Management Strategies for Climate Change Mitigation
  4. Technologies for GHG Reduction
  5. Waste Hierarchy