#  Subnational Climate Change Policy in India 

 



####  Wednesday - Thursday, December 8-9, 2021

####  Co-Sponsored by: [Harvard Project on Climate Agreements](https://www.belfercenter.org/project/harvard-project-climate-agreements); [Centre for Policy Research](https://www.cprindia.org); [Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University](https://mittalsouthasiainstitute.harvard.edu)

 **[Agenda](/file_url/1393)**

 **[Participant List](/file_url/1400)**

 **Background Papers:**

 Prepared for the workshop: Johannes Urpelainen and Jai Shekhar, "[Center-State Relations in India: A Political Economy Approach to Climate and Energy Policy](/file_url/1394)," November 2021.

 Navroz Dubash, Aditya Valiathan Pillai, and Parth Bhatia, “[Unlocking Climate Action in Indian Federalism](https://www.cprindia.org/research/reports/unlocking-climate-action-indian-federalism),” Centre for Policy Research, July 2021.

 **Presentations:**

 Aditya Valiathan Pillai, "[Climate Federalism in India: Context, Patterns, Fixes](/file_url/1398)"

 Robert Stavins, "[Sub-National Climate Change Policies: The U.S. Context](/file_url/1395)"

 Mark Jaccard, "[Subnational vs National Climate Policy: The Case of Canada](/file_url/1396)"

 Gørild Heggelund, "[Subnational Policy in Comparative Context: China](/file_url/1397)"

 Kaveri Iychettira, "[Climate Change Policy and Power Sector Reform](/file_url/1399)"

 **Additional readings suggested by participants:**

 International Energy Agency, "[The Role of China’s ETS in Power Sector Decarbonisation](https://www.iea.org/reports/the-role-of-chinas-ets-in-power-sector-decarbonisation)," April 2021.

 Michael A. Mehling, Gilbert E. Metcalf, Robert N. Stavins, "[Linking Heterogeneous Climate Policies (Consistent with the Paris Agreement)](https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/linking-heterogeneous-climate-policies-consistent-paris-agreement)," Harvard Project on Climate Agreements, October 2017.

 Robert Stavins, "[Lessons Learned from Sub-National Emissions Trading Systems](/file_url/1324)," presentation to a workshop, "Prospects for Guangdong Province’s Emissions Trading System," June 16, 2021. Similar to Professor Stavins' presentation in this workshop, but with additional slides on the nature of a tradable performance standard.