Ashok Mahindru on if and how India can meet the emissions target set by government for 2020?

Ashok Mahindru after carefully reading and analyzing the CSE (Centre for Science and Environment) report, endorses the few by Sunita Narain, director, CSE and Chandra Bhushan, associate director, CSE. Excerpts from the report - 

Ashok Mahindru highlights the the key sectors power, steel, cement, aluminium, paper and pulp and fertilizers that together account for over 60 per cent of India's CO2 emissions (approx.) There is a perception that India's rising GHG emissions are due to an inefficient industry. But a detailed analysis will tell us that it is not true. Most Indian industry is already efficient in terms of its use of energy and emissions. Technology options for emission reduction stagnate after 2020. There is no way to reduce emissions without impacting growth once we cross the current emissions-efficiency technology threshold, Ashok Mahindru agrees. 

Ashok Mahindru concludes that India must continue to demand an equitous agreement, as the cost of transition to low carbon economies is high. The industrialized world must recognize its historical responsibility so that it can pay us to mitigate. 

Further adding Ashok Mahindru says we must recognize that in the current economic growth model, the options for drastic reductions are few. This is why the industrialized world has not been able to cut emissions meaningfully. 

India needs the ecological space to grow. Simultaneously, the world also needs to reinvent its growth model to be low-carbon. But all this must be understood in terms of cost to the economy.