Amit Garg specializes in energy, climate change and sustainable development issues and offers courses titled Carbon Finance, Managing Energy Businesses, Sustainable Finance, Energy and Environment Policy, and Public Management. His current research interests include carbon and climate finance, energy businesses, corporate accounting of greenhouse gases, energy and environment modeling, water-energy nexus, and preparing businesses for climate change challenges.
He has co-authored 12 books, 25 international research reports and published extensively in international journals. He is a Lead Author for five reports of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He is currently the Co-Chair of IPCC Emission Factor Database and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Carbon Management journal.
Prof Garg was felicitated by the Prime Minister of India in 2007 for his outstanding contributions to climate change research. He was also a prominent member and contributed to the award of Nobel Peace Prize to IPCC in 2007. He received the Distinguished Young Professor Award for Excellence in Research at IIMA in 2010 and Outstanding Researcher Award at IIMA again in 2016.
Prior to joining IIMA, Prof Garg worked as Senior Economist at UNEP Risoe Centre, Technical University of Denmark. He has worked on a large number of research and consulting assignments for international and Indian organizations including IEA, the World Bank, UNDP, UNEP, USAID, the European Union, UK government, German Government and Government of India's Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Agriculture, University Grants Commission, and many state governments.
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FPM
Public Management
Energy, Environment and Climate Policy
PGP/PGPX
Carbon Finance
Managing Energy Businesses
EXECUTIVE EDUCATION
Sustainable Finance
PhD DISSERTATION SUPERVISION (Thesis Advisory Chair/member)
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PhD DISSERTATION SUPERVISION (Thesis Advisory Chair/member) |
Title of thesis |
Year of Graduation |
1 |
Salman Shakir Khan (Member of Advisory Panel) |
Managing Climate Change Risks in Cities: A Study of Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies |
2009 |
2 |
Amir Bashir Bazaz (Member of Advisory Panel) |
Managing the Water-Energy-Climate Change Nexus: An Integrated Policy roadmap for India |
2011 |
3 |
Prakriti Naswa (Chair of Advisory Panel) |
Uncertainty and Risk Management of Climate Change Impacts on Infrastructure Assets |
2014 |
4 |
Hem H. Dholakia (Chair of Advisory Panel) |
Climate Change, Air Pollution and Public Health in India: Impact Assessment and Adaptation Strategies |
2014 |
5 |
Rajiv Ranjan (Member of Advisory Panel) |
Self-Initiated teacher innovations in government rural elementary schools: Evolution, impact, and sustainability |
2017 |
6 |
Saritha Sudharmma Vishwanathan (Chair of Advisory Panel) |
Integrating Water and Energy Systems for India |
2018 |
7 |
Debdatta Mukherjee (Chair of Advisory Panel) |
Essays on Corporate Social Performance (CSP) & Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): A global to firm level analysis |
2018 |
8 |
Jigeesha Upadhyay (Chair of Advisory Panel, CEPT University) |
Managing specific energy consumption and related emissions for power sector and major energy intensive industrial sectors of India |
2018 |
9 |
Vidhee Avashia (Chair of Advisory Panel) |
Development, Climate Change and Indian Cities: Framing and Implementing Policies |
2019 |
10 |
Dipti Gupta (Chair of Advisory Panel) |
Aligning Decarbonization of Energy Systems and Sustainable Development in India: Synergies and Tradeoffs |
2020 |
11 |
Arpit Shah (Chair of Advisory Panel) |
Urban land use and the heat island effect |
2020 |
Current
Omkar Patange (Chair of Advisory Panel)
Vanita Singh (Chair of Advisory Panel)
PhD examiner for candidates from Technical University of Denmark (DTU) Copenhagen, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore and CEPT University Ahmedabad.
REVIEWER - International and Indian journals
Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, The Energy Journal, Climatic Change, Energy Policy, Climate Policy, Atmospheric Environment, Journal of Environment Management, Environmental Science and Technology, OPSEARCH, Current Science, International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, Science of Total Environment, Greenhouse Gas Measurement & Management.
• Can Peri-Urban Agriculture help to feed "hungry cities"
This study is a part of the larger project "Supporting the Institutionalisation of Capacities on Climate Change Studies and Actions" (ICCC), implemented by the Union Ministry of Environment Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Government of India and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH (on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety (BMU)). The study identifies the potential of peri-urban agriculture in selected Indian cities considering the potential impacts of climate change under 2 scenarios– business as usual and fostered peri-urban agriculture scenario.
• Exploring National and Global Actions to reduce Greenhouse gas Emissions (ENGAGE) (2019-2023)
ENGAGE coordinated by IIASA brings together an international and multidisciplinary consortium of leading research groups from inside and outside the European Union, with an overarching goal to co-produce knowledge for designing cost-effective, technologically sound, socially acceptable and politically feasible pathways that can meet the objectives of the Paris Climate Change Agreement.
• Development of a prosumer driven integrated SMART grid (2018-2021)
This research project is funded by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. The objective of the project is to develop and demonstrate a block chain based peer to peer energy sharing and trading platform. This would enable consumers to manage their home or industrial energy needs, and take control of their energy sourcing, while achieving higher energy security, enhancing renewable energy share and increasing commercial viability of enhanced energy efficiency measures. The project is an international collaboration with the Florida International University (FIU) Miami USA, IIT Gandhinagar, MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology, BSES Yamuna Power Limited, Renault NISSAN and AMPLUS Solar.
• Deep Decarbonization Pathways Project (DDPP BIICS), International Climate Initiative (IKI) (2018-2021)
The project funded by International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) aims to support the implementation of Paris Climate Change Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals, especially in major emerging countries. It will primarily conduct detailed analysis of the implications of 2/1.5C for national development pathways, priority actions and cooperative initiatives, and support in-country development of Long Term Low GHG Emission Development Strategies that are coherent, transparent, credible and in line with domestic development goals.
• Revision of Gujarat's State Action Plan on Climate Change (SAPCC) (2019-2020)
This is a joint research project by IIM Ahmedabad and IIT Gandhinagar to revise and upgrade the State Action Plan for Climate Change for the state of Gujarat in India. This would include GHG inventory estimation, contribution of Gujarat towards various plans and policies of Government of India for climate change and nationally determined contributions (NDCs), vulnerability and impact assessment of sub-regions and sectors due to climate change, and suggesting adaptation strategies. The project is funded by Government of Gujarat.
• Linking Climate and Development Policies – Levering International Networks and Knowledge Sharing (CD-LINKS) (2015-2019)
This EU funded international collaborative project aims to improve the scientific understanding of linkages between climate change and multiple sustainable development objectives, to broaden the evidence base in the areas of policy effectiveness by exploring past and current policy experiences, to develop globally consistent, national low-carbon development pathways, to establish a research network to leverage knowledge sharing among institutions from Europe and several Non-European G20 countries.
• Risk and uncertainty assessment for Critical Railway Infrastructure due to impacts of Climate change (2018- 2019)
Joint research project conducted by IIM Ahmedabad and IIT Gandhinagar focuses on assessing climate change related risks and impacts faced by fixed track infrastructures on the critical routes of the Indian railways network covering bridges, culverts and tunnels due to extreme precipitation and temperature events in the medium- to long-term future timescales under various climate change scenarios for each railway zone.
• Health impacts of Heat extremes (2017-2020)
To investigate climactic exposure on cardiovascular health outcomes in urban India, develop method and modeling tool for assessing current and future population exposure and public health risks related to extreme heat, develop thresholds for heat-mortality relationships that can provide inputs for heat-warning systems.
• Estimating Energy Sector GHG Emissions from Unorganized sectors (2016-2018)
The unorganized sectors comprise of sectors like other energy industries, non-specified industry, off-road transportation, off-road vehicles and other machinery, mobile (aviation component), mobile (water borne component), mobile (others). The project estimates energy sector GHG emissions from unorganized sectors.
• Design of General QA/QC systems for BUR-2 (2017-current)
Design of general Quality Assurance and Quality Control systems for India's Second Biennial Update Report (BUR2) and TNC (General for all sectors and specific for Energy sector).
• Coordination of Energy Sector Inventory (2011-2018)
The Project envisages undertaking activities pertaining to the preparation of India's second and third biennial report and third national communication report to the UNFCCC. The project undertakes Coordination of Energy Sector (Energy industries, Manufacturing industries and Construction) Biomass combustion Inventory for 2011 to 2016 (for BUR 2 and BUR 3).
• Greenhouse Gas Inventory/MRV Work, Government of Guyana (2017-2019)
The preparation of the Third National Communications (TNC) aims to enable Guyana to fulfil its reporting requirements to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) while strengthening the information base as well as the technical and institutional capacity of Guyana. Additionally, the project seeks to assist further integration of climate change priorities into national development strategies and relevant sectoral programmes by building on previous achievements and addressing gaps. A national greenhouse gas inventory is a key element of any national communication. This project entails preparation of GHG inventory and capacity building for future work.
• Integrated action on health and climate change Programme (INCP) (2015-2018)
Enhancing higher education and research partnership links between India and Norway in research areas of the call-clean energy, climate change, and public Health, Improving the understanding of synergistic issues related to energy access, climate change and health and explore the integration of policy structures and implications of such policies in India.
• Modelling and informing low-emission strategies (MILES project) (2014-2017)
EU funded collaborative project on climate change mitigation with 14 top-ranking global educational and research institutes with an objective to serve as a flexible platform to develop the modelling tools to elaborate and discuss complementarily to the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) at 2030 horizon that can be relevant in national and international political debates. The development of new modelling frameworks were centered on innovations able to address specific questions arising within the national policy context, and in the context of international policy taking longer-term perspective and aiming at contributing to the vision of low-carbon transition at a 2050 horizon.
• Electric Vehicles: Indian Market Study (2017-2018)
This is a collaborative project with Renault to understand vehicle and driving patterns using the primary researching on selected 10 Cities. Secondary research was conducted to select the potential cities. By framing suitable questionnaire, user survey was conducted in these cities to prepare summary report containing key insights.
• Economic cost of impacts and adaptation to extreme rainfall event induced flooding for selected Indian cities (2016- 2018)
Part of the Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation for Third National Communication component and Assessment of Economic Cost of Impacts and Adaptation focus area conducted for Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India. The project aimed at assessing the impacts on urban flooding through selected case city due to heavy downpours, and extreme precipitation events; damages due to continued climate change and estimation of the relative cost of adaptation for various options in the short- to medium-long term future timescales under various climate change scenarios.
• Risk and uncertainty assessment for port Infrastructure due to impacts of Climate change: Case studies on Kandla and Vishakhapatnam ports (2016- 2018)
Part of the Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation for Third National Communication component and Climate Change Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation: Energy, Infrastructure, Settlements and Urban development focus area undertaken on-behalf of Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India. The project aimed to assess the impacts of sea level rise, heavy downpours and cyclonic events on Indian ports on East and West coasts through case examples of Kandla and Vishakhapatnam ports and continued climate change impacts in the short- to long-term future timescales, primarily the 2020s, with some focus on 2050s and 2080s as well as develop Vulnerability Index methodology for the Indian ports.
• White Paper on Global Market based Measures (GMBM) Scheme of ICAO (2016)
This project undertaken for Ministry of Civil Aviation, Government of India included assessment of ICAO's proposal on market-based measures and alternate proposals submitted by other nations including the impacts of such initiatives on the regional, national and international aviation sector in terms of aviation sector market competitiveness, impact on Indian operators and India's National Civil Aviation Policy. It also included feasibility evaluation of future carbon market in India and recommendations on best course of action for India in this global dialogue
• United States India Joint Center for Building Energy Research and Development: Grid responsive buildings (CBERD project) (2012-2017)
Indo-US joint research project (titled CBERD) proposed to create a Sustainable Life-Cycle Assurance Model for buildings systems' integration through design, construction, operation processes duly integrating information technology with physical systems to achieve energy savings; and to develop R&D solutions customized for regional and localized applications meant for diverse building types. It mainly focused on grid-responsive and connected building application to link energy efficiency and daily operations, such as demand response (DR), to achieve electricity reliability and operational efficiency.
• Energy plantations: Integrating land-use, water, energy and sustainable development at local level (2013-2015)
Proposed to create a framework for local level interventions (especially in Indian rural areas) in order to enhance energy security, improve economic security in rural areas as well as provide impetus for sustainable development through energy plantation. District level data has been used and inter-linking of existing schemes and programmes of the government (such as NREGA, Bharat Nirman and CDM) were explored.
• Techno-economic Assessment of CO2 Capture and Storage Potential in India: A Policy Perspective (2013-2015)
DST funded project takes a policy perspective on scope of CCS technology for India, integrating technical and economic approaches. The project objectives included creating an updated national CO2 emission source data for India and transferring it to a GIS framework, mapping major CO2 storage locations in India such as depleted oil wells, deep un-mineable coal mines, basalt formations using secondary literature; developing estimates of latest cost components of CCS supply chain, modelling and economic cost analysis of future energy systems with a specific focus on CCS options in India.
• Study of Energy Balance of Rural India Using Geospatial Inputs (A Study under the ‘Energy and Mass Exchange in Vegetative Systems') (2013-2015)
Funded by ISRO, Government of India through Space Application Centre to estimate the energy balance of Indian villages through a detailed primary research including residential, agriculture, forest, commercial and livestock domains.
• Assessment of climate change mitigation pathways and evaluation of the robustness of mitigation cost estimates (AMPERE) project (2011-2014)
EU funded research project (FP7) collaborative effort on modeling and policy analysis to develop long-term, economically feasible strategies to lessen the global impact of climate change.
• Low climate impact scenarios and the implications of required tight emission control strategies (LIMITS) project (2012-2014)
EU funded project (FP7) collaborative project with ten international institutions to examine how to fundamentally restructure energy systems and land-use management practices on a global scale in order to limit warming from climate change to 2˚C.
• Supporting state action plans for climate change (2010-12)
The project funded by GIZ (German agency) and involved researchers from IIT-D (New Delhi), IISc (Bangalore) and IMI (Kolkata) to provide technical assistance to develop their state action plans on climate change for Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh.
• Agriculture pumpset replacement modeling for policy (2010-11)
USAID sponsored project to estimate financial and economic implications of converting annual revenue subsidy to capital subsidy by replacing existing inefficient irrigation pumpsets with energy efficient ones resulting in electricity savings for a state.
• Scoping study for financial solutions for climate change adaptation in rural areas (2010-11)
GIZ (German agency) funded the project to review the financial mechanisms on climate change adaptation for rural India. Almost 400 polices/programmes/projects over the last two decades were studied based on their focus area, type of financial instrument deployed, location specificity and linkages with climate change adaptation.
• Assessment of impacts of climate change on water-energy nexus in agriculture under canal irrigation system (2009-2012)
World Bank and Government of India funded the project to analyze the impacts of climate change on water availability in river systems feeding into two major canal systems of India – one which is having a high contribution from glacial melt (Sarda Sahayak Pariyojna) and another from rainwater (Sardar Sarovar canal). The uncertainty of water supply in river basins and thus its availability for connected canal irrigation systems in medium to log-terms could pose a serious risk to vast Indian populations in future. This was one of the first integrated study to link water-energy-agriculture and climate change through modeling.
• DSM studies for Gujarat (2008-2010)
End-use electricity efficiency improvements offer an inexpensive way to reduce power shortages. In Gujarat, which is a relatively well-off industrialized state, the economic potential for cost-effective end-use energy efficiency improvements could be large enough to eliminate the state's electricity shortages. This study, funded by USAID through IRG, focuses on estimating demand side management (DSM) potential in power sector in Gujarat, with special emphasis on agricultural pump-sets, air-conditioners and refrigerators. A detailed load research for residential and commercial consumers was also conducted.
• Impacts of and adaptation to climate change (2005-2007)
Korea Environment Institute (KEI) funded project involved case studies on impacts and adaptation to climate change in Bangladesh, Brazil, China, India, and South Africa. The case studies address adaptation policies to provide general insights about synergies and tradeoffs between national sustainable development policies and climate change, and the implementation measures required to obtain attractive policy options including adaptation.
• CO2 capture and storage in the Indian subcontinent (2006-2007)
EU and UK funded project to estimate CO2 capture and storage (CCS) potential and cost for the Indian subcontinent – specifically India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Coordinated and developed cost flow sheets for the necessary CCS infrastructure and assess the availability of key cost data, as a basis for reliable costs estimates.
• CASES Project (2006-2008)
EU funded project to coordinate the component for developing countries (China, India, Brazil, Bulgaria, and Turkey). It involved estimation of social and private costs of energy externalities for coal and biofuels through fuel life cycle cost assessment.
• Building and strengthening institutional capacity on climate change (BASIC) (2004-2006)
EU-funded project to build the vulnerability and adaptation component for India. It involves study and critique of globally available assessment tools for climate change related impacts, vulnerability and adaptation policy responses across sectors such as water resources, agriculture, land-use change, energy and infrastructure, human health.
• Development, energy and climate (2000-2007)
International collaborative research project funded by UNEP and DANIDA coordinated by UNEP Risoe Centre/ RIVM focused on national development strategies and policies that both meet development priorities of the countries and address climate change.
• Future energy projections for large developing economies (2005-2007)
Collaborative research project with IEA/UNEP balancing development, energy and climate priorities in large developing economies (China, India, Brazil and South Africa) to provide inputs to IEA's flagship publication World Energy Outlook (for 2006). Technical lead and related research coordination including publication of four individual country reports which involved detailed modeling for a reference and an alternative future scenario including impacts of national policies on energy systems, related emissions and investments.
• Indian Energy and Emissions: Modelling using AIM/Local and AIM/ENDUSE
Joint research project with National Institute of Environment Studies (NIES), Japan; wherein detailed bottom-up models were set up for India for analyzing implications of alternative energy policies at both local and global.
• Research on Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) for CO2 mitigation
Joint-research project with Centre for International Research in Environment and Development (CIRED), France; wherein GHG mitigation potential was estimated for India using the MARKAL model. Sectoral potentials were estimated separately along with their marginal mitigation cost curves. Another research component involved estimation of CO2 emission baseline for the Indian sugar industry.
• Long-term Energy Scenarios for India
Collaborative research project between Max Planck Institute of Plasma Research and Netherlands Energy Research Foundation (ECN) analyzed 100-year energy scenarios for India using ANSWER MARKAL model.
• Non-CO2 GHG Emission Projection
Collaborative research project between IIMA and National Institute of Environment Studies (NIES), Japan involved non-CO2 greenhouse gas emission mitigation potential and technology assessment from a developing country perspective. Mitigation cost curves were estimated for methane and N2O and compared with those for CO2 to analyze mitigation flexibility.
• Greenhouse Gas Pollution Prevention- Climate Change Supplement
Programme by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) implemented by the Louis Berger Group, Inc. Estimated GHG Mitigation for the Indian Power Sector including levelized cost assessment for alternative power generation technologies.
• Strategies and Instruments for Sustainable Growth: Energy Management and Environmental Protection in India
Joint research project by IIMA and the University of Twente, the Netherlands funded by Indo-Dutch Programme for Alternatives in Development (IDPAD). This project analysed the Indian brick and dye-stuff industries for the penetration of environmentally friendly energy efficient technologies using primary research.
• Climate Change Outreach and Awareness Project
Project by Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Hagler Bailley, CRISIL, Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) and Development Alternatives (DA) funded by USAID.
• Developing Countries and Global Climate Change: Electric Power Choices for India
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Year | Awards & Honors |
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2020 | Recipient of "Madan Mohanka Research on Internalization of Business Award" at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad |
2016 |
Recipient of "IIMA Outstanding Researcher Award 2016" at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad |
2010 | Recipient of "Distinguished Young Professor Award for Excellence in Research" at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad |
2007 | Member of the UN body Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize |
2007 | Commemoration by the Prime Minister of India for outstanding contributions to climate change research |
1999 | Awarded the Institute's Award for "Best Thesis Proposal" at Indian Institute of Management,Ahmedabad |
1999 | Awarded the "Industrial Finance Corporation of India" Award for Best Thesis Proposal at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad |
1998 | Financial recognition for "Outstanding Scholastic performance" in second year at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad |
1985-87 | Awarded "Indian University Grant Commission's fellowship" for two years during Post graduation at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee |
1981-85 | Awarded "University's scholarship for outstanding performance" for all the four years during under graduation at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee |
1981 | Secured 15th rank amongst more than 100 thousand students in UP Education Board's exam for 12th grade. |
1979 | Secured 20th rank amongst more than 100 thousand students in UP Education Board's exam for 10th grade. |