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Prof. Shobhakar Dhakal

Position
Professor
Unit
Sustainable Energy transition and Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Change
QUALIFICATION
AREA OF EXPERTISE
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
SELECTED RESEARCH PROJECTS

Ph.D. (The University of Tokyo, 2000)

Special Graduate Student (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)

M.Eng. (Asian Institute of Technology, 1996)

B. Eng. (National Institute of Technology Surat, India 1993)

  • Low carbon and climate-resilient cities
  • Energy policy and energy-economic modelling
  • Climate policy and climate change mitigation assessment
  • Improving energy access in developing countries
  • Cross-border electricity trade and regional energy market integration
  • Climate finance and carbon market
  1. Kamandika, F. A, and S. Dhakal (2023). Impact of Carbon Price on Indonesia’s Power Sector Up To 2050. Carbon Neutrality, Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43979-023-00066-4
  2. Aryal, S., S. Dhakal and S. KC. (2023). Integrated Analysis of End-use Electrification and Cross-border Electricity Trade Policies for Hydropower Enabled Energy Transformation in Nepal, Renewable Energy Vol 219, Part 1 (Dec 2023) 119467, Elsevier.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2023.119467
  3. Dhakal, S. and M. Pradhan (2023). Identification and prioritization of barriers to access international climate finance for Nepal. Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development Journal, 30 (1) 121-146, May 2023. United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. Bangkok. https://www.unescap.org/kp/2023/asia-pacific-sustainable-development-journal-vol-30-no-1-may-2023.
  4. Babiker, M., Bazaz, A., Bertoldi, P., Creutzig, F., De Coninck, H., De Kleijne, K., Dhakal, S., Haldar, S., Jiang, K., Kılkış, Ş., Klaus, I., Krishnaswamy, J., Lwasa, S., Niamir, L., Pathak, M., Pereira, J. P., Revi, A., Roy, J., Seto, K.C., Singh, C., Some, S., Steg, L., Ürge-Vorsatz, D. (2022). What the latest science on climate change mitigation means for cities and urban areas. Indian Institute for Human Settlements. https://doi.org/10.24943/SUPSV310.2022
  5. Dhakal, S., J.C. Minx, F.L. Toth, A. Abdel-Aziz, M.J. Figueroa Meza, K. Hubacek, I.G.C. Jonckheere, Yong-Gun Kim, G.F. Nemet, S. Pachauri, X.C. Tan, T. Wiedmann, 2022: Emissions Trends and Drivers. In IPCC, 2022: Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group III to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, NY, USA.  https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009157926.004.
  6. Dhakal S. and S. Shrestha (2021). Clean Energy Finance in the Countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). In: Susantono, B., Y. Zhai, R.M. Shrestha, and L. Mo (eds) Financing Clean Energy in Developing Asia, Asian Development Bank. Manila. https://www.adb.org/publications/financing-clean-energy-developing-asia
  7. Dhakal S., L. Srivastava, B. Sharma, D. Palit, B. Mainali, R. Nepal, P. Purohit, A. Goswami, G. M. Malikyar & K. B. Wakhley (2019). Meeting Future Energy Needs in the Hindu Kush Himalaya. In: Wester P., Mishra A., Mukherji A., Shrestha A. (eds) The Hindu Kush Himalaya Assessment. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92288-1_6
  8. Rosenzweig C., W. Solecki, P. Romero-Lankao, S. Mehrotra, S. Dhakal, and S. Ali Ibrahim (Ed.) (2018). Climate Change and Cities- Second Assessment Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/climatology-and-climate-change/climate-change-and-cities-second-assessment-report-urban-climate-change-research-network
  9. Dhakal S. and M. Ruth (Ed.) (2017). Creating Low Carbon Cities, Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-49730-3
  10. Seto K. C., S. Dhakal, A. Bigio, H. Blanco, G. C. Delgado, D. Dewar, L. Huang, A. Inaba, A. Kansal, S. Lwasa, J. E. McMahon, D. B. Müller, J. Murakami, H. Nagendra, and A. Ramaswami (2014): Human Settlements, Infrastructure and Spatial Planning. In: Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.
  11. Bai X., S. Dhakal, J. Steinberger, and H. Weisz (2012). Drivers of urban energy use and main policy leverages. Energizing Sustainable Cities: Assessing Urban Energy (Ed. Arnulf Grubler and David Fisk), Routleg, London and New York.
  12. Grubler, A., X. Bai, T. Buettner, S. Dhakal, D.J. Fisk, T. Ichinose, J. Keirstead, G. Sammer, D. Satterthwaite, N.B. Schulz, N. Shah, J. Steinberger and H. Weisz (2011). Urban Energy Systems. In Global Energy Assessment: Toward a Sustainable Future. L. Gomez-Echeverri, T.B. Johansson, N. Nakicenovic, A. Patwardhan, (eds.), IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria and Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.
  13. Jollands N., P. Dowling, S. Dhakal, L. Guimaraes, S. Hammer, S. Henihan, L. Parshall, M.  Ruth, N. Shulz, W. Wescott. 2008. Chapter 8- Energy Use in Cities, World Energy Outlook 2008, Paris: International Energy Agency.
  1. Mastering Energy Supply focusing on Isolated Areas (PI), Sponsor: European Union, Erasmus+
  2. Foundations for climate-resilient and sustainable growing settlements (U-Res)(PI). Sponsor: Natural Environment Research Council – NERC, Tyndall Center
  3. Global Science Technology and Innovation Conference series (PI) . Sponsor: Vlaamse Instelling Voor Technologisch Onderzoek (VITO),Belgium
  4. ICUE 2020 on Energy, Environment and Climate Change International Conference. Sponsor:
  5. Evidence based policies for the sustainable use of energy resources in the Asia Pacific Region (PI). Sponsor: The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific  (UN-ESCAP)