New Delhi, Feb. 9 -- India's biggest investment challenge in the coming decades will come from its delayed and large-scale urban transition rather than industrialisation, with city design and planning set to play a decisive role in shaping long-term energy demand and efficiency, NITI Aayog Vice Chairman Suman Bery said on Monday.

"It is not industrialisation that is investment-heavy, it is urbanisation," Bery said while speaking at the launch of a NITI Aayog report on scenarios towards Viksit Bharat and India's net zero emissions target for 2070, noting that India faces a "mammoth and delayed" urban transition that will require sustained investment well beyond climate-related spending.

Bery stressed on the need for integrated planning o...