Nigel Singh

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Nigel Singh is a Visiting Fellow, researching India’s contribution to the technology transfer debate within the UN climate negotiations, using developments in the Indian solar industry as a specific case study. This involves a political appraisal of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission at a national and state level, private sector activity, and the relevance of India’s international presentations on a technology mechanism. He has an MSc in Contemporary India from Oxford University, where his dissertation focused on the role of intellectual property rights in technology transfer. He also has a First Class degree in English from Bristol University. Nigel Singh was for ten years a Producer of BBC and Channel Four television programmes in the UK. He has also worked as a campaigns organiser for the British Labour Party. He has written for Foresight (web journal of Policy Network), and co-authored papers for Economic and Political Weekly and the Oxford Department of International Development.
Visiting Fellow
nigelanilsingh[at]gmail[dot]com,
Phone: +91 11 2671 7983

Publication

The Role of the National Solar Mission in Climate Change Mitigation and the Twin Objective of Energy Security

This article outlines the National Solar Mission's role as India's major climate change mitigation policy, arguing that India's National Solar Mission (NSM) was initially conceived to bolster India's position against legally binding commitments on carbon emissions. However, the NSM also has twin objectives in energy security. Progress in the NSM is outlined before its problems are examined in order to clarify how the Indian government may direct its development to fulfil energy security and energy access goals.

Published: March 2012
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