Avinash Godbole

Archive data: Person was Research Assistant at IDSA from June 2009 to February 2016
Joined IDSA
June 2009
Research Interests
Chinese Foreign Policy, India-China Relations, Environmental Changes in China, India’s Position & Global Debates on Climate Change, Minorities in China, Taiwan’s Foreign Relations.
Education
PhD, Centre for East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Background
Avinash Godbole is a research assistance of the East Asian Centre at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis (IDSA). He was recently awarded Doctor of Philosophy at CEAS, SIS, JNU. He was a Visiting Fox Fellow at the Macmillan Center at Yale in 2007-08. His research interests are in the fields of Chinese Foreign Policy, Environmental Changes in China, Minorities in China, Domestic Politics in China, China’s Asia strategy and India-China Relations. He is also assistant editor for IDSA’s CBW magazine.

Research Assistant
Email: avingodb[at]gmail[dot]com
Phone: +91 11 2671 7983

Publication

Finally, US action on Climate Change takes the first baby step

The United States House of Representatives passed a landmark legislation H.R. 2454, the "American Clean Energy and Security Act," by a narrow margin of 219-212 on 26 June 2009. This bill requires the reduction of nationwide greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent of the 2005 level by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050 through a "cap-and-trade" program under which companies would buy and sell emissions credits. The bill has more hurdles to cross before it becomes a law.

Published: July 01, 2009
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