Energy and emissions thresholds for providing decent living standards to all

Project Information

DecentLivingEnergy

Grant agreement ID: 637462

DOI 10.3030/637462

Project closed

EC signature date 29 May 2015

Start date 1 June 2015

End date 31 May 2019

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 869 722,00

EU contribution € 869 722,00

Coordinated by

INTERNATIONALES INSTITUT FUER ANGEWANDTE SYSTEMANALYSE
Austria

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (16)

A low energy demand scenario for meeting the 1.5 °C target and sustainable development goals without negative emission technologies

Author(s): Arnulf Grubler, Charlie Wilson, Nuno Bento, Benigna Boza-Kiss, Volker Krey, David L. McCollum, Narasimha D. Rao, Keywan Riahi, Joeri Rogelj, Simon De Stercke, Jonathan Cullen, Stefan Frank, Oliver Fricko, Fei Guo, Matt Gidden, Petr Havlík, Daniel Huppmann, Gregor Kiesewetter, Peter Rafaj, Wolfgang Schoepp, Hugo Valin
Published in: Nature Energy, Issue 3/6, 2018, Page(s) 515-527, ISSN 2058-7546
Publisher: Nature Energy
DOI: 10.1038/s41560-018-0172-6

Decent housing in the developing world: Reducing life-cycle energy requirements

Author(s): Alessio Mastrucci, Narasimha D. Rao
Published in: Energy and Buildings, Issue 152, 2017, Page(s) 629-642, ISSN 0378-7788
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.07.072

Less global inequality can improve climate outcomes

Author(s): Narasimha D. Rao, Jihoon Min
Published in: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, Issue 9/2, 2018, Page(s) e513, ISSN 1757-7780
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.513

Healthy, affordable and climate-friendly diets in India

Author(s): Narasimha D. Rao, Jihoon Min, Ruth DeFries, Suparna Ghosh-Jerath, Hugo Valin, Jess Fanzo
Published in: Global Environmental Change, Issue 49, 2018, Page(s) 154-165, ISSN 0959-3780
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.02.013

Improving poverty and inequality modelling in climate research

Author(s): Narasimha D. Rao, Bas J. van Ruijven, Keywan Riahi, Valentina Bosetti
Published in: Nature Climate Change, Issue 7/12, 2017, Page(s) 857-862, ISSN 1758-678X
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-017-0004-x

Estimating Uncertainty in Household Energy Footprints

Author(s): Jihoon Min, Narasimha D. Rao
Published in: Journal of Industrial Ecology, Issue 22/6, 2018, Page(s) 1307-1317, ISSN 1088-1980
Publisher: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1111/jiec.12670

Bridging India’s housing gap: lowering costs and CO 2 emissions

Author(s): Alessio Mastrucci, Narasimha D. Rao
Published in: Building Research & Information, Issue 47/1, 2018, Page(s) 8-23, ISSN 0961-3218
Publisher: E. & F.N. Spon
DOI: 10.1080/09613218.2018.1483634

Energy access and living standards: some observations on recent trends

Author(s): Narasimha D Rao, Shonali Pachauri
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, Issue Volume 12, Number 2, 2017, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa5b0d

Sensitivity of grain yields to historical climate variability in India

Author(s): Kyle Frankel Davis, Ashwini Chhatre, Narasimha D Rao, Deepti Singh, Ruth DeFries
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, Issue 14/6, 2019, Page(s) 064013, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab22db

Spatial analysis of energy use and GHG emissions from cereal production in India

Author(s): N.D. Rao, M. Poblete-Cazenave, R. Bhalerao, K.F. Davis, S. Parkinson
Published in: Science of The Total Environment, Issue 654, 2019, Page(s) 841-849, ISSN 0048-9697
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.073

Improving the SDG energy poverty targets: Residential cooling needs in the Global South

Author(s): Alessio Mastrucci, Edward Byers, Shonali Pachauri, Narasimha D. Rao
Published in: Energy and Buildings, Issue 186, 2019, Page(s) 405-415, ISSN 0378-7788
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2019.01.015

Impact of Historical Changes in Coarse Cereals Consumption in India on Micronutrient Intake and Anemia Prevalence

Author(s): Ruth DeFries, Ashwini Chhatre, Kyle Frankel Davis, Arnab Dutta, Jessica Fanzo, Suparna Ghosh-Jerath, Samuel Myers, Narasimha D. Rao, Matthew R. Smith
Published in: Food and Nutrition Bulletin, Issue 39/3, 2018, Page(s) 377-392, ISSN 0379-5721
Publisher: International Nutrition Foundation
DOI: 10.1177/0379572118783492

Outlook for modern cooking energy access in Central America

Author(s): Shonali Pachauri, Narasimha D. Rao, Colin Cameron
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 13/6, 2018, Page(s) e0197974, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0197974

Access to infrastructure services: Global trends and drivers

Author(s): Jan Christoph Steckel, Narasimha D. Rao, Michael Jakob
Published in: Utilities Policy, 2017, ISSN 0957-1787
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2017.03.001

White goods for white people? Drivers of electric appliance growth in emerging economies

Author(s): Narasimha D. Rao, Kevin Ummel
Published in: Energy Research & Social Science, Issue 27, 2017, Page(s) 106-116, ISSN 2214-6296
Publisher: Elsevier Limited
DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2017.03.005

Decent Living Standards: Material Prerequisites for Human Wellbeing

Author(s): Narasimha D. Rao, Jihoon Min
Published in: Social Indicators Research, 2017, Page(s) 1-20, ISSN 0303-8300
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-017-1650-0