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High wellbeing with lower energy consumption:scenarios for India’s residential sector
Mastrucci, Alessio Chatterjee, Souran Ashok, Kaveri Daioglou, Vassilis Dukkipati, Srihari Sreenivas, Ashok Edelenbosch, Oreane Kumar, Poornima Ürge-Vorsatz, Diana Khan, Sarah
Mastrucci, Alessio
Chatterjee, Souran
Ashok, Kaveri
Daioglou, Vassilis
Dukkipati, Srihari
Sreenivas, Ashok
Edelenbosch, Oreane
Kumar, Poornima
Ürge-Vorsatz, Diana
Khan, Sarah
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SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
SDG 13 - Climate Action
SDG 13 - Climate Action
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/28779
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Ensuring equitable access to energy services to enhance human wellbeing is gaining prominence within climate negotiations. Despite rising energy demands in the Global South, disparities persist in access to decent living standards (DLS). Achieving DLS universally requires additional energy, yet the efficacy of demand-side strategies in meeting climate goals remains underexplored. Here, we assess energy and carbon dioxide emission implications of providing DLS to all within climate change mitigation efforts, focusing on India’s residential sector and using a multi-model analysis. Our findings show that providing DLS while leveraging demand-side measures, supported by enabling policies and widely available technologies, can substantially reduce residential energy demand by up to 27% by 2050 compared to a reference scenario. We find that enhanced access to DLS combined with demand-side measures not only improves wellbeing but also provides flexibility on the supply side while remaining compatible with ambitious climate targets.
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2026-01-14
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10.21203/rs.3.rs-8300022/v1