Dr. Amrita Goldar has nearly 17 years of experience working on energy, environment, and climate change projects for government and non-governmental clients. Many of her projects are with central government ministries and agencies (MoF, MoEF&CC, MoP, NITI, etc.) that shape India’s negotiation standpoint at international forums.
Her ongoing projects include developing sub-national modelling frameworks for forecasting loss and damage finance needs and meeting energy efficiency-related skilling requirements, providing inputs for India’s stance on ‘matters related to adaptation’ and Global Goal on Adaptation, modelling impact of scrap steel policy changes on material needs, estimating CRM resourcing from circular economy, and estimating the economic impact of climate change. She recently inducted as a member to two NITI Aayog-led Inter-Ministerial Working Groups to develop pathways for meeting national commitments on Net Zero. She is also leading and co-developing four analytical models at ICRIER – Sampada WSUT model, Unnati regional CGE model, Samriddhi Global Trade Model and Prakriti Adaptive Regional input-output model.
In the recent past, she has undertaken studies on understanding climate disaster impacts and forecasting adaptation resourcing needs for India, understanding battery waste management linkages to sustainable EV supply chains, designing a critical mineral policy for India, studying the impact of renewable and energy efficiency policies on jobs created in states, policy priorities for carbon-neutral steel sector, etc.
She was awarded her Ph.D. degree in Economics from the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning (CESP), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, in 2018. Her doctoral thesis focused on Bilateral Investment Agreements and their impact on India-bound FDI. She has numerous national and international publications to her credit.
Projects | Sep, 2024
