Resource detail

The Fifth Assessment Reports released by the IPCC indicates that increase in global temperatures is proportional to the build-up of long-lasting greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, especially carbon dioxide. Pursuing an energy trajectory alternate to the historical fossil fuel dominant trajectory is widely regarded as the preferred policy option to rapidly reduce the emission gap without compromising with the imperatives of reducing development deficit. Renewable technologies not only provide a low carbon enhancement of energy security, but also have other crucial benefits like improving access to energy services, increasing the standard of living and levels of employment of the local population, reducing pollution, improving health, ensuring sustainable development of the remote regions in a country and so on.