Decarbonising India - 6 Jan 2023

NAVEEN UNNI

RAVICHANDRAN

DR ARUNKUMAR M SAMPATH

The physical manifestations of climate change are increasingly visible across the globe, and India is not untouched.

More than 75 percent of India’s districts – home to 638 million people, or 1.4 times the population of the European Union (EU) – are categorized as hotspots for extreme climate events already. India has acknowledged this threat in multiple forums, has set ambitious targets and is taking bold measures to address the risks.

Though India’s emissions currently stand at a mere 1.8 tons CO2e per capita (versus the United States at 14.7 and China at 7.6), it is still the world’s third-largest emitter at 2.9 GtCO2e (4.9 percent of global emissions). As India grows, emissions will only increase without a concerted effort across multiple sectors of the Indian economy. We use external sources for GDP growth scenarios in this report and don’t make projections or forecasts. These scenarios range between long terms forecasts from reputed international agencies such as EIU and Oxford Economics and aspirational estimates, based on employment needs. We have used the former as a basis to develop sector growth scenarios and hence, GHG emissions. With careful planning and execution, India can meet its growth ambitions while decarbonizing.

In keeping with our history of exploring environmental sustainability issues, we offer this report not to prescribe what policymakers and industry should do, but to provide a factual basis for comparing emission-reduction approaches. Further, we hope the report will help leaders in the public and private sectors launch emission –reduction projects to help secure a healthy and prosperous future for India and the world.

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Naveen is the managing partner of McKinsey’s Perth office. He is a leader of our Organization and Electric Power & Natural Gas Practices in Australia and has a special focus on leading organisational transformations.

Naveen works with clients in multiple sectors, including agriculture, retail, hospitality, oil and gas, metals and mining, industrial-equipment manufacturing, engineering, and construction. He advises businesses on a range of strategic, operational, and organisational challenges and has a particular passion for helping organisations improve their performance and develop their leaders.

Examples of his recent client projects include the following:

leading analytics transformations for clients across multiple sectors (such as oil and gas, retail, and agriculture), designing strategy creation and capability-building streams, while supporting use-case deployment at one of the business divisions developing several comprehensive, multiyear business transformations for companies across sectors such as mining, agriculture, and utilities), with impact of approximately 20 to 30 percent performance improvement (reflected in earnings before interest and taxes) and significant culture and capability change leading the strategy creation and implementation of a digital transformation and new-business build for a financial-services company developing growth strategy for several Australian clients in the retail, agribusiness, and heavy industries sectors with a focus on finding adjacencies and building new businesses, leveraging current assets

Outside his client work, Naveen is deeply involved in the local community and is passionate about making Western Australia (WA) a great place to live and do business in. He is also closely involved with several WA institutions, such as Scitech, UWA, CCI WA, Lions Eye Institute, and Fogarty Edvance, supporting them with pro-bono strategy work.

Ravi is President Danfoss Industries Pvt Ltd a 100% subsidiary of the Leading family-owned Danish MNC Danfoss A/s HQ in Denmark since 2013.

Danfoss is a world leader in Mobile Hydraulics, Electrification, Cooling and Refrigeration , Drives and District

Heating technologies .

Prior to this role, Ravi was heading Danfoss Motion controls business Asia Pacific covering business which incl South Asia, Korea, Japan, Australia and NZ. He has been with Danfoss since 2002 and prior to that with Siemens in India,

Germany in various roles ranging from Sales & Marketing, Strategy, General management and M&A

Ravi is also Member of Global management team, Board member and Global Mentor since 2013. Has been active in Energy and water, Food and Agri, Technology space supporting and mentoring several early stage start-ups in India in various roles.

Ravi works extensively in the area of Cooling, Energy efficiency. Decarbonization and food loss areas and represents several though leadership initiatives He is an active member in Industry bodies, was Chairman of CII Chennai in 2014-15 and Chairman CII Tamilnadu 2017-18. He currently chairs CII Food and agriculture center of Excellence task force on Cold Supply chain logistics and chairs CII Green building center Energy efficiency council.

Ravi was the President of Madras Management Association for year 2020-21

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DrKanakasabapathi Subramanian

Dr. K. Subramanian obtained his PhD from Cornell University in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Micro

ElectroMechanical Systems or MEMS. He is currently Senior Vice President at Ashok Leyland. Previously, he was CEO and Executive Director, R&D at Powergear Ltd., MEPZ, Chennai where he worked on implementing several novel technologies in Energy and other sectors. Before that, he worked at GE’s Global Research Center in New York. Subramanian has filed more than 50 patent applications in his field. He managed a large program on MEMS at GE and received two prestigious awards for his research. One of them, the Hull Award, is presented to early-career researchers at GE Global Research who have contributed significant technical achievements, are a positive influence on fellow technologists, and embrace GE values. The other award, the Whitney technical achievement award is for a project that is viewed as a potential market game changer. Subramanian is a Six Sigma Black Belt. He has made significant contributions to multiple unique projects and has authored numerous publications and technical reports.