Narasimha Rao
Senior Research Scholar
Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions Research Group
Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
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Biography
Narasimha Rao is a senior research scholar in the IIASA Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions Research Group of the Energy, Climate, and Environment Program and an Associate Professor of Energy Systems at the Yale School of the Environment, in the US. His research examines the relationship between energy systems, human development, and climate change. He is a contributing author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s Sixth Assessment Report.He is the recipient of the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant (2015-2018) for a project entitled Decent Living Energy, which explores energy and emissions thresholds for providing decent living standards for all. His research interests also include income inequality, infrastructure, and climate policy. For his current research, Rao was awarded the 2011 Amulya K. Reddy Prize for the Best Paper in the journal Energy for Sustainable Development for his paper entitled 'Kerosene Subsidies in India: When Energy Policy Fails as Social Policy'.
Rao obtained his PhD in Environment and Resources from Stanford University, California, and two Master's degrees in Electrical Engineering and Technology Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Last update: 16 JUN 2021
Publications
Davis, K.F., Chhatre, A., Rao, N. , Singh, D., & DeFries, R. (2019). Sensitivity of grain yields to historical climate variability in India. Environmental Research Letters 14 (6) e064013. 10.1088/1748-9326/ab22db.
Mastrucci, A. , Byers, E. , Rao, N. , Pachauri, S. , & Riahi, K. (2019). Lack of thermal comfort as a dimension of energy poverty: Towards an SDG for space cooling? In: Global Sustainable Development Goals in a Mediatized World, 4-5 April 2019, Vienna, Austria.
Mastrucci, A. , Byers, E. , Pachauri, S. , & Rao, N. (2019). Improving the SDG energy poverty targets: residential cooling needs in the Global South. Energy and Buildings 186 405-415. 10.1016/j.enbuild.2019.01.015.
Rao, N , Poblete Cazenave, M., Bhalerao, R., Davis, K.F., & Parkinson, S. (2019). Spatial analysis of energy use and GHG emissions from cereal production in India. Science of the Total Environment 654 841-849. 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.11.073.
Parkinson, S. , Krey, V. , Huppmann, D. , Kahil, T. , McCollum, D., Fricko, O. , Byers, E. , Gidden, M. , Mayor, B., Khan, Z., Raptis, C., Rao, N. , Johnson, N., Wada, Y. , Djilali, N., & Riahi, K. (2019). Balancing clean water-climate change mitigation tradeoffs. Environmental Research Letters 14 (1) e014009. 10.1088/1748-9326/aaf2a3.