ABOUT

Shubham Love is a Master of Environmental Studies graduate from the University of Pennsylvania with a specialisation in Environmental Policy. With an engineering background in Biotechnology, his work bridges the gap between molecular-level agricultural science and macro-level climate governance.

His research primarily explores the nexus of sustainable agriculture, climate change, energy policy, and carbon markets, with a rigorous focus on sustainable nitrogen management. His graduate research includes methods to harness carbon markets to reduce N₂O emissions and promote sustainable practices among smallholder farmers in India.

Professional Experience & Research

Shubham currently serves as a Research and Policy Associate for the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development (IGSD). He is also engaged with Sustainable Agriculture Fund at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy as a Research Associate, where he contributes to developing climate-smart, resilient food systems.

Shubham utilizes R, Python, and ArcGIS Pro to conduct geospatial and statistical modeling. He has developed and published open-source R packages on CRAN, including ‘NUETON‘—designed for calculating Nitrogen Use Efficiency indices—and ‘PlateVision‘ for processing qPCR results. These tools reflect his commitment to creating open-access, science-driven solutions for complex environmental challenges.

He also maintains indiavcm.com, which is the first interactive spatial dashboard mapping India’s voluntary carbon market projects.

Science Communication & Advocacy

A dedicated science communicator, Shubham maintains haevyre.com, a research-based blog where he publishes analytical essays on climate policy, energy, and food security for a global audience.

His commitment to environmental advocacy began at age 12 when he founded Thundertigers, a youth-led initiative focused on the conservation of India’s declining tiger population.

Through Thundertigers, he led a cohort of young volunteers in campaigning and fundraising, garnering recognition from national media outlets such as The Indian Express. This early exposure to the intersection of public awareness and environmental action continues to inform his approach to evidence-based governance.

In recent years, he has engaged in global policy discussions ranging from his membership of the International Nitrogen Network’s Governance Working Group to participation in the World Bank Youth Summit deliberations for two years in a row.

Creative Pursuits

Beyond his academic and professional work, Shubham is an avid wildlife and space photographer, capturing the natural world through a lens that complements his conservation efforts.

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Publications

Harnessing Carbon Markets to Promote Sustainable Nitrogen Management in Indian Agriculture

Capstone Project | Shubham Love | May 18, 2026

Nitrous oxide (N₂O) is a potent greenhouse gas and an ozone-depleting substance. India is among the largest global contributors to N₂O emissions due to intensive nitrogen fertiliser use across a predominantly smallholder farming landscape. Subsidized urea keeps input costs artificially low, making high application rates the economically rational choice for farmers and leaving no farm-level financial incentive for nitrogen reduction. This study examines whether a voluntary carbon market can fill that gap by generating additional farmer revenue through verified N₂O emission reductions. Using a national-scale geospatial framework developed in the study, India’s agricultural N₂O inventory is estimated at 144.71 MtCO₂e and disaggregated into priority market segments, with simulated market valuations ranging from $14.47 million to $173.65 million across three scenarios. The study identifies government programs and elements of existing public digital infrastructure that help resolve the baseline, MMRV, and disbursement barriers that caused earlier international N₂O carbon market frameworks to fail. Government fiscal savings from reduced urea subsidies, estimated at $1,443 million to $2,886 million, substantially exceed carbon market revenue. These can be redeployed to incentivize farmers to participate in VCM projects, making the fiscal co-benefit an important component for farm-level viability. A voluntary carbon market for agricultural N₂O can simultaneously generate farmer income, deliver verified emission reductions, and align with the government’s focus towards fertilizer reduction.

The Energy-Agriculture Nexus: A Multi-Year Research and Policy Agenda

Working Paper | Thabo Lenneiye, Angela Pachon, Shubham Love | May 6, 2026

This working paper focuses on the energy–agriculture nexus as a distinct, bidirectional frame to launch a multi-year research and policy agenda for the Goldsmith Sustainable Agriculture Fund anchored at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy. The paper is organized along the agriculture value chain, highlighting distinctions in the Global North and the Global South, and examining the cross-cutting architecture of climate finance, MRV, and policy coherence.

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Projects

India Voluntary Carbon Market Explorer | indiavcm.com

Dashboard | Shubham Love | June, 2026

India VCM Explorer is an interactive geospatial market intelligence platform for India’s voluntary carbon market. It brings together project-level information on location, category, status, vintage, methodologies, developers, and credits issued and retired across major registries and the Berkeley Carbon Trading Project.

The platform combines spatial exploration with project comparison, methodology and developer intelligence, data-quality indicators, issuance and retirement analysis, downloadable datasets, and live carbon market news. It is designed for researchers, policymakers, analysts, and market participants seeking a transparent, audit-friendly view of where India’s carbon projects are located, how they are distributed, and how activity varies across states, districts, sectors, and project types.

NUETON – Nitrogen Use Efficiency Toolkit on Numerics

R Package | Shubham Love | November, 2023

A comprehensive toolkit for calculating and visualizing Nitrogen Use Efficiency (NUE) indicators in agricultural research. The package implements 23 parameters categorized into fertilizer-based, plant-based, soil-based, isotope-based, ecology-based, and system-based indicators based on Congreves et al. (2021) <doi:10.3389/fpls.2021.637108>. Key features include vectorized calculations for paired-plot experimental designs, batch processing capabilities for handling large datasets, and built-in visualization tools using ‘ggplot2’. Designed to streamline the workflow from raw agronomic data to publication-ready metrics and plots. (7000+ downloads)

PlateVision: Automated qPCR Analysis and Visual Quality Control

R Package | Shubham Love | November, 2023

PlateVision integrates raw qPCR outputs directly into the Delta-Delta Ct method with built-in error propagation and master mix calculations. It enhances data integrity through visual quality control heatmaps, allowing users to detect pipetting errors and edge effects at a glance. (3,000+ downloads)

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