Mitigation Instruments for Achieving India’s Climate and Development Goals
Date : December 5, 2021
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 temperature increase’, as specified in the Paris Agreemen...
Patna Clean Air Action Plan
Date : December 5, 2021
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 tackle the air pollution in the city by taking measu...
Assessing Capacity-Building Needs for India’s Climate Actions
Date : December 5, 2021
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 the country and help India meet its climate change...
Visualising the Impact of Air Pollution During October and November 2018
Date : December 5, 2021
This report assesses the impact of agricultural burning and Diwali firecrackers on the pollution levels in the vicinity of the deployed monitors in 10 Indian cities during October and November 2018....
Visualizing the Impact of Episodic Air Pollution During October 2018 to February 2019
Date : December 5, 2021
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....
Data Visualization and Analytics of PM 2.5 Air Pollution in 5 Indian Cities (October 2018 To May 2019)
Date : December 5, 2021
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 has developed a nationwide real time PM2.5 monitorin...
Data Visualization and Analytics of PM 2.5 Air Pollution in 5 Indian Cities (June 2019 to November 2019)
Date : December 5, 2021
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....
Joint Letter to Secretary Moniz and Deputy Chairman Ahluwalia (2014)
Date : December 5, 2021
The Joint Letter shares key insights and recommendations that can help to bolster clean energy and climate cooperation and help in better collaboration between India and the U.S....
Guiding Framework and Toolkits For Clean Air Action Plans
Date : December 5, 2021
Rapid growth in energy, transport, and manufacturing sectors, combined with increasing urbanization, has had an adverse impact on air quality. The Government of India has taken a significant step by notifying the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) which targets reduction in particulate emission by 20-30% by 2024, over 2017 level, in all the 122 non-attainment cities identified under NCAP. Along w...
The Fly Ash Brick Industry in Bihar (2016)
Date : December 5, 2021
The Bihar brick industry is currently based on decentralized production activity using energy intensive, resource depleting and highly polluting technologies and production methods with Fixed Chimney Kilns (FCKs) being the predominant firing technology. In order to ensure that the state’s economic growth is not at the cost of environment and public health, it is extremely necessary to take initi...