Prof. Ravindranath has focused his research, advocacy, consultancy and publications on various dimensions of Climate Change: Mitigation Assessment, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory in Land Use Sectors, Impact of Climate Change and Vulnerability Assessment in Forests and Agro-ecosystems, Adaptation and Climate Change Resilience, Forest Ecology, CDM, Bioenergy, Biomass Production and Ecosystem Services
Climate Change | Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory in Agriculture, Forests and Other Land Use Sectors – Preparation of the emissions inventory guidelines – Evaluation and review of GHG emissions inventory for the UNFCCC – Author for IPCC GHG Inventory Guidelines – Technical assistance to developing countries for GHG emissions inventory |
Impact of Climate Change and Vulnerability Assessment in Forest, Agro-Ecosystems at district and national level – Dynamic global vegetation modeling of the climate change impacts on forests – Development of vulnerability profiles and vulnerability indices – Development of Guidelines for Vulnerability Assessments | |
Climate Change Mitigation Assessment in Land Use Sectors – Modeling of Carbon stock estimation using different models including EX-ACT – Development of carbon mitigation options and strategies – Mainstreaming mitigation in agriculture and natural resource-based programmes – Author IPCC Working Group III Forests / AFOLU Mitigation | |
Adaptation and Climate Resilience – Assessment of adaptive capacity of forest dependent communities – Development of adaptation strategies and practices – Mainstreaming adaptation/resilience in developmental programmes | |
Development of Forestry – CDM and REDD Projects – Contributed to development of two CDM Projects for World Bank in India | |
Bioenergy and Biomass Production | Bioenergy and Biofuels for Meeting Rural Energy Needs and Climate Change Mitigation – Assessment of the biomass production potential for bioenergy – Assessment of the sustainable biomass power and biofuel potential – Carbon mitigation implications of bioenergy and biofuels |
Environmental / Ecosystem Services | – Assessment of ecosystem services from rural development programmes – Greening of rural development and mainstreaming for improved and sustained delivery of environmental/ecosystem services |