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...
Sector: Undertaken By: UrbanEmissons.Info Recent Publication: 2019
Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Jodhpur...
Sector: Undertaken By: UrbanEmissons.Info Recent Publication: 2019
Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Kolkata...
Sector: Undertaken By: UrbanEmissons.Info Recent Publication: 2019
Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Kota...
Sector: Undertaken By: UrbanEmissons.Info Recent Publication: 2019
Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Lucknow...
Sector: Undertaken By: UrbanEmissons.Info Recent Publication: 2019
Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Mumbai...
Sector: Undertaken By: UrbanEmissons.Info Recent Publication: 2019
Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Nashik...
Sector: Undertaken By: UrbanEmissons.Info Recent Publication: 2019
Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Panjim...
Sector: Undertaken By: UrbanEmissons.Info Recent Publication: 2019
Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Puducherry...
Sector: Undertaken By: UrbanEmissons.Info Recent Publication: 2019
Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Rajkot...
Sector: Undertaken By: UrbanEmissons.Info Recent Publication: 2019
Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Shimla...
Sector: Undertaken By: UrbanEmissons.Info Recent Publication: 2019
Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Srinagar...
Sector: Undertaken By: UrbanEmissons.Info Recent Publication: 2019
Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Surat...
Sector: Undertaken By: UrbanEmissons.Info Recent Publication: 2019
Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Tiruchirapally...
Sector: Undertaken By: UrbanEmissons.Info Recent Publication: 2019
Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Thiruvananthapuram...
Sector: Undertaken By: UrbanEmissons.Info Recent Publication: 2019
Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Vadodara...
Sector: Undertaken By: UrbanEmissons.Info Recent Publication: 2019
Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Vijaywada...
Sector: Undertaken By: UrbanEmissons.Info Recent Publication: 2019
Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Visakhapatnam...
Sector: Undertaken By: IORA Ecological Solutions Pvt. Ltd Recent Publication: 2019
Shakti is facilitating the development of The Sikkim Climate Inventory and Monitoring System (SCIMS), which emanates from the state’s vision to remain carbon neutral. The SCIMS is the first step for Sikkim towards realizing the vision of being carbon neutral. The SCIMS is an automated system that annually inventorises GHG emissions by sources and...
Sector: Undertaken By: Centre for Science and Environment Recent Publication: 2019
In 2015, the Indian government revised its emission norms for the power sector. In order to encourage compliance, the Ministry of Power issued directions in 2018 that the new environmental norms of 2015 qualify as a “change in law” event. This means that investments in pollution control technologies to meet the 2015 norms will be covered by an ...
Sector: Undertaken By: Multiple Recent Publication: 2019
The industrial sector is a significant contributor of stack emissions in India, from localised sources such as brick kilns and diesel generator sets, to large centralised facilities such as coal- fired thermal power plants and oil refineries. Industry emission standards have an important role to play in reducing emissions and improving air quality....
Sector: Undertaken By: Centre for Science and Environment Recent Publication: 2019
Emissions from brick kilns depend on several factors including kiln technology type, input fuel used, brick setting practices to name a few. This report provides an assessment of stack emission monitoring for a few brick kilns in Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. The objective of the report is to understand particulate matter readings observed in diff...
Sector: Undertaken By: Centre for Science and Environment Recent Publication: 2019
Several regulations have been introduced to promote the use of fly ash as a resource material for brick making. Despite this regulatory push, the uptake of fly ash is still very low. One of the main setbacks is the scepticism around the quality of the fly ash bricks being manufactured. A survey was conducted in Delhi-NCR to examine the quality of f...
Sector: Undertaken By: Multiple Recent Publication: 2019
India aims to install 40 GW of rooftop solar capacity by 2022. The SARAL Index is designed to help states achieve this goal. It encourages states to assess initiatives undertaken so far as well as the scope for future improvement by evaluating and ranking all states according to their performance, growth, level of maturity, policy framework, and im...
Sector: Undertaken By: World Resources Institute Recent Publication: 2019
This report aims to measure the monetary value of the benefits resulting from the use of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) data to share real-time information and the value-addition of the open data in sharing information. The report also includes a qualitative assessment of the impact of open data on transport sector start-ups who are one of the...
Sector: Undertaken By: Council on Energy, Environment and Water Recent Publication: 2019
The automotive industry in India is facing headwinds – from a general economic downturn to the need to improve emissions performance and the impending shift to electrification. Charting the future course of the auto industry, especially with regard to electrification, will require an in-depth understanding of the opportunities and impacts that ca...
Sector: Undertaken By: Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy Recent Publication: 2019
Launched in partnership with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), India Energy Transformations Platform (IETP) is IETP is an independent, multi-stakeholder group that meets periodically to discuss non-linear, radical and transformative opportunities for deeply decarbonizing India’s energy sector by 2050. IETP will conceptualize...
Sector: Undertaken By: Multiple Recent Publication: 2019
India’s transition towards low-carbon economic development requires capital inflow at scale. There is a need for the structural transformation of financial policy and regulations to help direct capital towards green economic activities. This is particularly pertinent as India crafts out pathways to meet its Nationally Determined Contributions (ND...
Sector: Undertaken By: Multiple Recent Publication: 2019
There is a need to encourage, support, and scale innovation in order to advance to a more sustainable, nimble, and secure energy future. Emerging technologies have a business life cycle: research and development (R&D), demonstration, and eventual commercialisation. Clean energy projects, especially those in their nascent stages, have long timel...
Sector: Undertaken By: Multiple Recent Publication: 2019
Wind energy contributes 60 gigawatts(GW) to India’s target of achieving 175 GW of renewable energy by 2022. However, in the last few years, the sector has witnessed an immense slowdown. The annual capacity addition of wind energy was below 2 GW for the last two consecutive years- a drastic 60 per cent decrease from the financial year 2016–17. F...
Sector: Undertaken By: Multiple Recent Publication: 2019
In the last decade the renewable energy sector has made tremendous strides in the country, growing from a fringe player to a mainstream actor in the energy sector. Riding on a favourable policy environment and dipping prices, capacity and generation have grown. According to official estimates, India has hit 73 GW of installed RE power, which is...
Sector: Undertaken By: Multiple Recent Publication: 2019
While India's power sector is evolving, public awareness and participation in electricity governance processes is quite limited. On the one hand, utilities must adopt initiatives that can influence consumer behavior, ensure quality of supply and profitability. On the other, consumers need to be aware of their rights, responsibilities, regulatio...
Sector: Undertaken By: Multiple Recent Publication: 2019
Uttar Pradesh has the largest population, the largest number of households added under the Saubhagya scheme, and the highest commitment to reforms under the Ujwal Discom Assurance Yojana (UDAY), and, therefore, the greatest need to address losses incurred by distribution companies (discoms). But discoms in Uttar Pradesh have persistently been f...
Sector: Undertaken By: Multiple Recent Publication: 2019
The Indian Renewable Energy Federation (IREF) works to promote policy, regulatory and business solutions that will increase the deployment of renewable energy. Since it was established in 2013, the IREF has provided recommendations to inform several policy developments such as the National Solar Mission Phase II and amendments to the Electricit...
Sector: Undertaken By: Multiple Recent Publication: 2019
India has emerged as one of the champions of the global energy transition. At the end of 2017, India represented the world’s fourth largest wind installed capacity and the sixth largest solar installed capacity.1 Investment flow into the renewable energy (RE) sector in India is the second highest among developing countries.India’s RE ambiti...
Sector: Undertaken By: Multiple Recent Publication: 2019
India’s renewable energy market has gained increased momentum, stoked by an ambitious target of 175 GW of renewable energy by 2022. But stakeholders still face challenges accessing data on the renewable energy sector. This is because information on major trends, growth trajectories, policy and regulatory reforms, market updates, and bottlenec...
Sector: Undertaken By: Multiple Recent Publication: 2019
Solar Rooftop has significant potential to contribute to India’s renewable energy targets and energy security. India's target of 40 GW of solar rooftop capacity by 2022 has injected increased ambition into the sector. In the meanwhile, solar photovoltaic (PV) technology has steadily gained wider acceptance with significant global capacity gro...
Sector: Undertaken By: Multiple Recent Publication: 2019
Around Rs. 92,000 crores worth of major agricultural produce (at 2014 wholesale prices) is lost in India every year (Central Institute of Post-Harvest Engineering and Technology, 2016). The actual economic loss would be compounded if we consider retail price, hunger, farmer distress and farm loan wavers. While many factors contribute to post-ha...
Sector: Undertaken By: Multiple Recent Publication: 2019
In the past, support from Shakti helped four cities—Visakhapatnam, Kakinada, Jaipur and Udaipur—to include sustainable mobility and built environment components into their Smart City Proposals. Based on the strength of the proposals, all four cities made it to the list of top 20 cities selected for the first round of funding under the Smart...
Sector: Undertaken By: Multiple Recent Publication: 2019
The transportation sector is one of India’s major energy consuming sectors. As the country's GDP grows, it will lead to heightened transport activity for moving passengers and freight by the way of rapid motorisation. This will lead to a concomitant rise in energy and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions from the transport sector as a whole. Thus, ther...
Sector: Undertaken By: Multiple Recent Publication: 2019
Consumers are one of the largest and most important user group in an economy; but they are also the only group who are not effectively organized and whose views are often not heard. One of the most effective ways to nudge the transport sector towards an efficient and cleaner future is to understand, and inform the consumer behavior towards low ...