Mainstreaming Climate Co-Benefits in Indian Cities

Part I: Introduction to Concept and Theory of Co-benefits. 1. Cities and climate co-benefits Mahendra Sethi & Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira .- 2. Co-benefits assessment tools and research gaps Mahendra Sethi.- Part II: Contextualizing Co-benefit Issues- across spatial scales and sectors. -3. South Asian Perspective: A case of urban air pollution and potential for climate co-benefits in India Bhola Ram Gurjar, Toshimasa Ohara, Mukesh Khare, Priyanka Kulshrestha, Vandana Tyagi, Ajay Singh Nagpure.- 4. Aligning global environmental and local urban issues Usha P. Raghupathi, Richa Sharma & Aastha Joshi.- Part III: Co-Benefits in Energy, Transport, Buildings, Waste & Bio-diversity. -5. Co-benefits from energy Sector Mahendra Sethi.- 6. Co-benefits from urban transport Sudhir Gota & Alvin Mejia.- 7. Co-benefits from buildings and construction A. Narender.- 8. Co-benefits from Waste to energy Amit Chatterjee, Manmohan Kapshe, Binayak Choudhury, Shomit Badea.- 9. Co-benefits of urban biodiversity Meenakshi Dhote & Debojyoti Mukherjee.- Part IV: Promoting Co-benefits in the Urban Context - Innovations and Reforms. -10. Smart and Livable cities - opportunities to enhance quality of life and realize multiple co-benefits Shilpi Mittal & Mahendra Sethi.- 11. Social entrepreneurship, energy and urban innovations Rama Krishna Reddy Kummitha.- 12.State Level Framework for Integrated Landuse and Transport Shabana Charaniya.- 13. Climate resilience in urban planning Divya Sharma & Raina Singh.- 14. Rights-based approach to realize co-benefits in Delhi Magali Dreyfus.- 15. Mainstreaming co-benefits in urban policy, governance and finance A. Narender & Mahendra Sethi.

Dr. Mahendra Sethi is an urban-environment expert and recipient of United Nations University - Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) PhD Fellowship at UNU-IAS, Japan. His field of research explores the role of cities at the interface of global environmental change with a particular focus in developing countries. In India, he is associated with the National Institute of Urban Affairs, as Editor of the research journal Urban India. Earlier in his career, he was involved in research studies, development consultancy, appraisals and formulation of urban, regional and environmental plans for national and state governments, statutory bodies, private sector, and multilateral organizations, including the World Bank and WWF. He has keen research interest in themes of megacities, sustainable transport, optimization models, climate resilience, green habitat, evolution of settlements, and ecological development in mountain and hill areas. Sethi is a recipient of Government of India's Ministry of Human Resource Development Scholarship from 2005-07 and also offered Liverpool University Scholarship in 2005. He has authored numerous publications in peer-reviewed books and journals and regularly disseminates research through national and international conferences. His other title: Climate Change and Cities - A spatial perspective of carbon footprint and beyond (Routledge), is an empirical research into economic development, urbanization and GHG patterns of over 200 countries based on his doctoral thesis.
Dr. Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira is a faculty member at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV/EAESP and FGV/EBAPE) and also teaches at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPEAD-UFRJ), Fudan University (Shanghai) and Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar (UASB) in Quito, Ecuador. He is associated researcher at the United Nations University (UNU-IIGH) in Kuala Lumpur and the MIT Joint Program for Science and Policy for Global Change (USA). His