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This policy brief by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) evaluates the financial and technical requirements for transitioning India's iron and steel (I&S) sector to low-carbon production. It proposes a Green Industrial Policy (GIP) combining targeted subsidies, carbon pricing, and green public procurement to shift the industry from carbon-intensive blast furnace-basic oxygen furnace (BF-BOF) pathways toward hydrogen-based direct reduced iron-electric arc furnace (DRI-EAF) systems by 2050.

This appendix provides a financial viability analysis of 'export-only' electrolyzer projects in the United States, which utilize co-located new clean energy resources and allow for opportunistic electricity sales to the grid. The analysis concludes that such projects, which comply with the three principles of additionality, deliverability, and hourly time-matching, are competitive across large portions of the U.S., suggesting that rigorous 45V tax credit guidance regarding lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions would not hinder industry growth.

This report presents a Sustainable Asset Valuation (SAVi) assessment of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project in Dakar, Senegal. The analysis compares a 'Business as Usual' (BAU) scenario against three BRT implementation scenarios (default, low demand, and high demand) to evaluate the project's financial viability and its broader socio-economic and environmental externalities. While the project is found to be financially unviable under conventional accounting, the integration of positive externalities—particularly avoided transport costs and time savings—demonstrates significant overall economic and social profitability.