Omkar Patange
Research Scholar
Economic Frontiers Research Group
Biography
Omkar Patange is a research scholar associated with the IIASA Economic Frontiers Research Group. His research interests include mitigation strategies for deep decarbonization of energy and allied systems, their social and environmental implications, and the institutional and governance challenges emerging from energy system transitions.Patange is the principal investigator for a project titled Modelling the Regional Welfare Impacts of Coal Transitions (JUSTCOAL). He is also involved in the Just Transitions to Net-zero Carbon Emissions for All (JustTrans4ALL) project, focusing on the empirical analysis of drivers of just energy transitions and resulting implications for wellbeing using household-level data and econometric methods.
He received his PhD in Public Systems from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), India. He also holds a master’s degree in environmental management from the Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM), Bhopal, India, and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Walchand College of Engineering, Sangli, India.
He was a contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) in Working Group III (Mitigation). In the past, he worked on clean energy access with rural communities in northern India, focusing on indoor air quality assessment and the adoption of clean cooking stoves and fuels.
Last update: 19 MAR 2026
Publications
Svensson, J., Avashia, V., Boer, R., Chaturvedi, R.K., Cotta, M., Dubeux, C., Sugih Immanuel, G., La Rovere, E.L., Patange, O. , Rossita, A., & Vishwanathan, S.S. (2024). The AFOLU sector’s role in national decarbonization: a comparative analysis of low-GHG development pathways in Brazil, India and Indonesia. Climate Policy 1-18. 10.1080/14693062.2024.2391048.
Patange, O. , Purohit, P. , Avashia, V., Klimont, Z. , & Garg, A. (2024). Mitigation of non-CO2 greenhouse gases from Indian agriculture sector. Environmental Research Letters 19 e074020. 10.1088/1748-9326/ad4e4e.
Zimm, C. , Mintz-Woo, K. , Brutschin, E. , Hanger-Kopp, S., Hoffmann, R., Kikstra, J.S. , Kuhn, M., Min, J. , Muttarak, R. , Pachauri, S. , Patange, O. , Riahi, K. , & Schinko, T. (2024). Justice considerations in climate research. Nature Climate Change 14 22-30. 10.1038/s41558-023-01869-0.
Garg, A., Patange, O. , Vishwanathan, S.S., Nag, T., Singh, U., & Avashia, V. (2024). Synchronizing energy transitions toward possible Net Zero for India: Affordable and clean energy for all. Office of the Principle Scientific Advisor (PSA) to Government of India and Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL)
Brutschin, E. , Hoffmann, R., Kikstra, J. , Kuhn, M., Min, J. , Mintz-Woo, K. , Muttarak, R. , Pachauri, S. , Patange, O. , Riahi, K. , Schinko, T. , & Zimm, C. (2022). Just Transitions to Net-zero Carbon Emissions for ALL– JustTrans4ALL. In: Systems Analysis for Reducing Footprints and Enhancing Resilience, 16-17 November, 2022, Vienna, Austria.