As the impacts of climate change compel global growth strategies to move in the direction of lower-carbon and lower-emission economies, innovative industries such as renewable energy are expanding. Delivering products and services that seek to resolve the energy trilemma of achieving energy security and energy access for all while ensuring sustainability will be challenging, but doing so will also create new opportunities.
This report provides an assessment on the ecosystem for renewable energy in India. It evaluates the extent to which it supports the generation of good jobs in poor and rural areas, and identifies ways to accelerate the creation of jobs that sustainably reduce poverty. The report offers a first-pass assessment of how the renewable energy sector could be “tuned” to contribute more to poverty reduction as it meets India’s development needs.