The Paris Agreement of 2015 galvanized the march toward a lower carbon future. Indeed, in terms of energy and climate, there are two distinct eras: “Before Paris” and “After Paris.” Yet, while energy transition has become a pervasive theme all around the world, disagreement rages, both within countries and among them, on the nature of the transition: how it unfolds, how long it takes, and who pays. “Energy transition” certainly means something very different to a developing country such as India, where hundreds of millions of impoverished people do not have access to commercial energy, than to
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