Mitigating Carbon Emission through Economic Instruments: An Indian Perspective

Mitigating Carbon Emission through Economic Instruments: An Indian Perspective

Sanjib Pohit Dripto Mukhopadhyay Samantak Das
December 2005

The paper has two objectives. One, to analyse the pattern of energy usage in India and the implications thereof for carbon emission; two, to examine whether pricing and taxation policies have any role to play in mitigating carbon emissions.