Sector: Undertaken By: Respirer Living Sciences, Skymet Weather Services Recent Publication: 2020
Cities need good quality data on pollution levels, affected areas, sources and related information to be able to design strong air quality management plans. But a number of Indian cities are still outside the ambit of air quality monitoring, whereas other cities (like New Delhi) have a disproportionately high number of real-time air quality monitor...
Sector: Undertaken By: Alliance for an Energy Efficient Economy Recent Publication: 2020
Demand side energy management strategies for residential and commercial buildings depend on accurate, comprehensive data that is readily available and up to date. While there are several organizations that map energy use data in India, the available data lacks consistency and granularity, and is not comprehensive, easily accessible, or collected fr...
Sector: Undertaken By: Multiple Recent Publication: 2020
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) launched the India Cooling Action Plan (ICAP)—a 20-year roadmap to address cooling requirements in building, cold chain, transport and refrigeration sectors—in March 2019. The plan is unique in its pioneering attempt to develop adaptive thermal comfort standards for buildings ...
Sector: Undertaken By: The Energy and Resource Institute Recent Publication: 2020
The Small and Medium Enterprises Energy Efficiency and Knowledge Sharing (SAMEEEKSHA) platform was set up to allow various stakeholders in the MSME ecosystem to pool and share the knowledge of institutions and key stakeholders that work towards promoting energy efficiency in India’s MSME sector. The website of the platform provides a more detai...
Sector: Undertaken By: CII-Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre Recent Publication: 2020
Indian Railways is the one of the largest consumers of electricity in the country consuming over 17.5 billion units a year. As track and passengers continue to grow, implementing energy efficiency solutions and tapping into renewable energy is central to the Railway’s growth strategy. As a Designated Consumer under the Perform, Achieve and Trade ...
Sector: Undertaken By: Multiple Recent Publication: 2020
Over the last two decades, India has experienced a dynamic transformation with rapid economic growth, urbanisation underpinned by a burgeoning population. These changes have intensified the demand and use of natural resources. Raising the living standards of the Indians through better infrastructure, housing and capital equipment, entails a high ra...
Sector: Undertaken By: Institute of Urban Transport Recent Publication: 2020
Indian cities are witnessing a rapid increase in the share of trips made by privately owned motorised vehicles. This is leading to externalities like increased air pollution, energy consumption and congestion. It is important to introduce appropriate pricing mechanisms that dis-incentivise the use of private vehicles and curb the related negative e...
Sector: Undertaken By: Multiple Recent Publication: 2020
In 2017, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) released the National TOD Policy acknowledging the importance for cities to adopt TOD within their development plans. Many states have adopted and released their own TOD policies. However, despite policy action, two critical barriers to implement TOD remained unaddressed. The first was the ...
Sector: Undertaken By: Multiple Recent Publication: 2020
The growing urban sprawl in India is leading to the increased use of private vehicles, congested roads and more pollution as well as adding to the existing infrastructure of our cities. Along with efforts to build smarter and more sustainable cities, the Government of India is also focusing on Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) to support the urban...
Sector: Undertaken By: IIT Madras Recent Publication: 2020
The freight industry has a very complex and disintegrated system with urban freight traffic increasing day by day to meet the growing needs of an increasingly urban population. Urban freight transport is the movement of freight vehicles into, out of and within an urban area. The urban freight system includes manufacturing facilities, seaports, airp...
Sector: Undertaken By: Union Internationale des Transports Publics (UITP – India) Recent Publication: 2020
The Government of India rolled out Phase-II of FAME Scheme with an outlay of Rs. 10,000 Crore for a period of 3 years commencing from 1st April 2019. The FAME II scheme is aimed at incentivising demand for electric vehicles, especially electric buses, 2- and 3-wheelers and 4-wheeler passenger cars. In order to successfully implement the roll-out of...
Sector: Undertaken By: Council on Energy, Environment and Water Recent Publication: 2020
Globally, the electric mobility transition is underway driven by concerns around energy security, climate change and local air pollution. While India is increasingly looking at electric mobility as a viable mode of transport, the e-mobility transition in India is yet to take-off in a full-fledged manner. In 2017, less than 0.1% of the 21 million ve...
Sector: Undertaken By: Alliance for an Energy Efficient Economy Recent Publication: 2020
There is growing interest amongst Indian policy makers to encourage EV based mobility in cities and phase out ICE vehicles running on traditional fuels in order to reduce the carbon footprint of the economy. One of the key components of an electric vehicle (EV) ecosystem is a robust charging infrastructure. But storage technology is still in its na...
Sector: Undertaken By: Climate Policy Initiative Recent Publication: 2020
Achieving India’s NDC mitigation targets requires approximately $1 trillion in investments till 2030. As India begins to implement its plans for its energy transition, being able to compare the current supply of clean energy investment with the investment needed would allow for the development of clear action points to close the gaps. However, th...
Sector: Undertaken By: cKinetics Recent Publication: 2020
Over the last few years, decentralized renewable energy (DRE) solutions have witnessed an increased uptake and support from developers, investors and policymakers. This has resulted in the emergence of businesses that are at various stages of evolution ranging from start-ups to established energy enterprises. Additionally, introduction of innovativ...
Sector: Undertaken By: World Institute of Sustainable Energy Recent Publication: 2020
The power sector in India is transitioning rapidly, and stakeholders are continuously attempting to minimize revenue losses, improve quality of supply, meet emerging customer expectations, and achieve better environmental performance. To achieve these goals, it is necessary to facilitate the implementation of new policies and frameworks to make the...
Sector: Undertaken By: The Celestial Earth Recent Publication: 2020
The India Cooling Action Plan (ICAP), launched by the Ozone Cell of the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (MoEFCC) in order to address the status and future scope of cooling and refrigeration demand, provides a long-term policy road-map for addressing India’s vast and unmet cooling demand in a sustainable manner with minimal en...
Sector: Undertaken By: Council on Energy, Environment and Water Recent Publication: 2020
Better living standards, disposable income and need for cooling have led to increase in the uptake of Residential Air Conditioners (RAC), Commercial Air-Conditioners (CAC), as well as Mobile Air Conditioners (MAC). Due to rise in the demand of cooling equipment, the market for servicing these appliances have also increased rapidly. Currently there ...
Sector: Undertaken By: SGArchitects Recent Publication: 2020
To provide assistance to the targeted users (STU officials, bus operators, researchers etc), the FLEET tool is supported with a user manual. This document is developed by the project team for guiding the user regarding usability and functionality of the FLEET tool. The User manual explains step by step data inputs for each of user forms. It explain...
Sector: Undertaken By: Centre for Environment Education Recent Publication: 2020
Cooling is inter-linked with several aspects of human health and wellbeing. In a warming world, protection of fresh and nutritious food, safe medicines and protection of the population from extreme heat are essential. Cooling is also directly related to work conditions, economic productivity of the working population, and income generation. An esti...
Sector: Undertaken By: IIT-Kanpur, Respirer Living Sciences Recent Publication: 2019
In this report, data from 5 Indian cities – Mumbai, Lucknow, Raipur, Jaipur and Ahmedabad, has been evaluated for the period of June 2019 to November 2019, and long-term trends like temporal analytics, diurnal trends, calendar visualization and data availability have been presented....
Sector: Undertaken By: Respirer Living Sciences, Skymet Weather Services Recent Publication: 2019
This report presents the results of an air quality performance evaluation project. The goal of this project is to deploy 50 real-time air quality monitors (known as "Atmos") spread over 10 Indian cities, evaluate the performance of and provide contextual analytics of this data in periodic reports. This is one of the first projects in India which ha...
Sector: Undertaken By: Respirer Living Sciences Recent Publication: 2019
The report assesses the impact of episodic air pollution in the vicinity of the deployed monitors in ten Indian cities from October 2018 to February 2019....
Sector: Undertaken By: Council on Energy, Environment and Water Recent Publication: 2019
For India to be a part of a global governance structure that effectively responds to the threat of climate change, it is essential to have consensus among key domestic stakeholders on the need for India to develop a low-carbon economy. This requires identifying opportunities that demonstrate the advantages of pursuing low-carbon growth pathways in ...
Sector: Undertaken By: Bihar State Pollution Control Board Recent Publication: 2019
Patna is one of the 122 non-attainment cities identified by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) in the National Clean Air Action Plan that was launched in January 2019. The Patna Clean Air Action Plan, which has been adopted by the Bihar State Pollution Control Board (BSPCB), was developed in this context, in order to ta...
Sector: Undertaken By: Council on Energy, Environment and Water Recent Publication: 2019
India is steadily emerging as a key player in the global energy markets as well as in climate negotiations. And although India is already doing more than its fair share in terms of mitigation, it, along with other countries, might need to take on additional targets for the world to achieve the global target of a ‘well below Two Degree C temperatu...
Sector: Undertaken By: The Energy and Resource Institute Recent Publication: 2019
The idea of transparency for reporting and reviewing information on the climate policies and measures taken by Parties has emerged as one of the key elements gaining attention and weightage under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The transparency framework has been evolving in detail and complexity aimed at maximiz...
Sector: Undertaken By: The Energy and Resource Institute Recent Publication: 2019
This discussion paper focuses on the market-based mechanisms of Article 6 (particularly, Art. 6.2 and Art. 6.4) by assessing various country positions and views on the new market-based regime for trading in emissions or mitigation outcomes....
Sector: Undertaken By: Centre for Science and Environment Recent Publication: 2019
Emissions arising from the movement of vehicles is a major cause of deteriorating air quality in cities. More than 70% of Indian cities are classified as critically polluted and vehicles are among the highest source of exposure. In cities like Delhi, vehicles contribute up to 40% of the particulate pollution load. Policy makers have noted the neces...
Sector: Undertaken By: UrbanEmissons.Info Recent Publication: 2019
Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Agartala...
Sector: Undertaken By: UrbanEmissons.Info Recent Publication: 2019
Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Allahabad...
Sector: Undertaken By: UrbanEmissons.Info Recent Publication: 2019
Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Ahmedabad...
Sector: Undertaken By: UrbanEmissons.Info Recent Publication: 2019
Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Asansol...
Sector: Undertaken By: UrbanEmissons.Info Recent Publication: 2019
Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Dharwad-Hubli...
Sector: Undertaken By: UrbanEmissons.Info Recent Publication: 2019
Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Dhanbad-Bokaro...
Sector: Undertaken By: UrbanEmissons.Info Recent Publication: 2019
Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Gaya...
Sector: Undertaken By: UrbanEmissons.Info Recent Publication: 2019
Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Guwahati-Dispur...
Sector: Undertaken By: UrbanEmissons.Info Recent Publication: 2019
Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Gwalior...
Sector: Undertaken By: UrbanEmissons.Info Recent Publication: 2019
Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Hyderabad...
Sector: Undertaken By: UrbanEmissons.Info Recent Publication: 2019
Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Jamshedpur...