Dr Aman Srivastava is a Fellow, and Coordinator of the Climate Policy vertical, at the Sustainable Futures Collaborative. He works in the areas of domestic and international climate policy, exploring the interlinkages between emissions and development and studying future low-carbon development pathways. His work specifically focuses on energy-economic modelling, climate finance, and carbon markets, and also touches upon aspects of trade and industrial policy. Aman was previously a Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, and earlier spent over six years at the World Resources Institute, as a Research Associate (Climate Finance) in Washington DC and subsequently as Lead Economist (Climate) in Delhi. He served as a chapter author for the UNFCCC Standing Committee on Finance’s 2016 Biennial Assessment and Overview of Climate Finance Flows report, and has been a consultant with organisations such as AIIB, Vivid Economics, and the WTO. Aman holds a PhD in energy and behavioural economics from the University of Antwerp, an MSc in finance and development from the University of London, an MBA in finance from the Indian Institute of Management: Lucknow, and a BA (Honours) in economics from the University of Delhi. He is currently serving as visiting faculty at Kautilya School of Public Policy, having previously also taught at IIT Delhi’s School of Public Policy.
19 March 2024
SFC Perspectives are intended to stimulate discussion by providing an overview of key issues and avenues for action to inform India's sustainable development trajectory.
18 March 2024
The Climate Policy group within SFC approaches policy challenges through a strategic lens, aiming for long-term structural change by shifting discourse, building stronger institutions, and aligning conditions for implementation.
26 June 2023
Recent analysis has found that the finance that developed countries are reporting towards that USD 100 billion targets is not always going towards clear climate purposes – some of the projects that have been included in their reporting were a coal plant, a hotel expansion, chocolate stores, a movie, and an airport expansion.