Policy Briefs & Reports

Taking Energy Efficiency to New Heights: Analysis and Recommendations for the Buildings Sector from the Hyderabad Experience

Radhika Khosla
Srinivas Chary Vedala, Anjali Jaiswal, Raj Kiran Bilolikar, Srujana Nalam, Shravya Reddy, David Foster, David Goldstein

NRDC Publication

February 1, 2011

India has the second-fastest growing economy in the world and is committed to minimizing the impacts of climate change. The nation has adopted a National Action Plan on Climate Change to guide its efforts in building a low-carbon economy. Strong energy efficiency measures—in buildings of all types—are a key focus of India’s actions to reduce its carbon trajectory.