STUDENT FELLOWS

Narayan graduated from UC Berkeley in 2016 with a bachelor’s degree in environmental economics and policy and a minor in energy and resources. After graduating he spent the summer interning at the California Environmental Protection Agency, where he researched the reporting and verification mechanisms of the Under 2 Coalition members, as well as the steps that the California government is taking to reduce emissions from its departments.

After he finished his internship, Narayan accepted a Climate Corps fellowship to work for the County of Alameda to manage the impacts of the County’s electric cars on the power grid. Along with County staff and scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, he developed a program to maximize the use of electric vehicles while minimizing peak power demand.

Thanks to his experience at Alameda County, Narayan takes a specific interest in the challenge of decarbonizing the transport sector. However, more broadly, he is interested in all aspects of climate action, and how its impacts can be mitigated by all sectors of the economy. Since no single approach, institution, or academic discipline can solve climate change on its own, he believes that an interdisciplinary approach is required to solve these problems.

Through ISEP, Narayan is writing papers on Mid-Century Strategies for deep decarbonization and negative emissions, while he pursues an M.A. at the Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia.