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Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Allahabad...
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Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Ahmedabad...
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Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Asansol...
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Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Dharwad-Hubli...
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Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Dhanbad-Bokaro...
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Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Gaya...
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Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Guwahati-Dispur...
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Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Gwalior...
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Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Hyderabad...
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Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Jamshedpur...
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Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Jodhpur...
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Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Kolkata...
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Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Kota...
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Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Lucknow...
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Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Mumbai...
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Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Nashik...
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Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Panjim...
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Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Puducherry...
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Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Rajkot...
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Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Shimla...
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Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Srinagar...
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Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Surat...
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Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Tiruchirapally...
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Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Thiruvananthapuram...
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Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Vadodara...
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Air Pollution Knowledge Assessment – Vijaywada...
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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 ...
Sector: Undertaken By: Multiple Recent Publication: 2019
Over the last year, the Government of India has shown clear indications that it is keen to accelerate India’s transition to Electric Vehicles (EVs). However, there still exist ambiguities about the ways in which this transition may occur. Indian travel behaviour, modal split and consumption patterns are quite different from those observed in deve...
Sector: Undertaken By: Multiple Recent Publication: 2019
Public transport systems (i.e. buses, metros, suburban rail) are, for the most part, unable to meet the mobility demand in Indian cities. As a result, the ownership of private vehicles (such as cars and two-wheelers) has increased significantly. This in turn has led to more congestion and travel time, worsening air quality and increase in GHG e...
Sector: Undertaken By: Multiple Recent Publication: 2019
The transparency framework is an important element of the Paris Agreement. It includes obligations for countries to evaluate their mitigation efforts. But what are the implications of this framework for India? As key parameters of the transparency regime are negotiated and agreed upon, India will have to strengthen its domestic institutional fr...
Sector: Undertaken By: Multiple Recent Publication: 2019
India will need to rely upon market-based mechanisms such as internal carbon pricing, carbon taxes, the emissions cap and trade to manage GHG emissions. Shakti is facilitating research and stakeholder consultations to facilitate the emergence of suitable market-based instruments. ...
Sector: Undertaken By: Multiple Recent Publication: 2019
With rapid urbanization and migration, major metropolitan cities as well as tier-2 cities are witnessing a rise in population, infrastructure needs and energy needs. This in turn is increasing pollution levels and worsening the quality of air. There have been attempts to quantify the impact of air pollution and its sources for metropolitan cite...
Sector: Undertaken By: Council on Energy, Environment and Water 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 farin...
Sector: Undertaken By: Centre for Science and Environment Recent Publication: 2018
Clamps are one of the one of the least efficient and most polluting of all brickmaking technologies. As India strives towards a cleaner brick future, phasing clamps out is a necessary step on the way. Based on a survey carried out in Maharashtra, this report provides insights on the adverse environmental impacts of clamps and suggests recommendatio...
Sector: Undertaken By: Respirer Living Sciences Recent Publication: 2018
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....
Sector: Undertaken By: Ernst & Young Recent Publication: 2018
Internationally, carbon pricing instruments have witnessed growing interest as cost effective policy measures for climate mitigation. A carbon tax is considered by many as an efficient climate mitigation instrument since it can influence decision making of businesses and individuals to enable transition towards low-carbon and energy efficient techn...
Sector: Undertaken By: Ernst & Young Recent Publication: 2018
Internationally, carbon pricing instruments have witnessed growing interest as cost effective policy measures for climate mitigation. A carbon tax is considered by many as an efficient climate mitigation instrument since it can influence decision making of businesses and individuals to enable transition towards low-carbon and energy efficient techn...
Sector: Undertaken By: World Resources Institute Recent Publication: 2018
At a time when many countries have set targets to reduce emissions by 2030 as part of their Nationally Determined Contributions, the importance of the role played by corporations in driving sustainable business models that supplement global efforts is greater than before. A growing number of businesses around the world are turning to internal carbo...
Sector: Undertaken By: World Resources Institute Recent Publication: 2018
A leading Indian denim manufacturer—Arvind—has committed to continually improve energy performance across all business units. To strengthen existing energy productivity initiatives, it made energy purchases the focus of activity (operational boundary) for its internal carbon pricing scheme. Introducing a shadow price has led to approval for mor...
Sector: Undertaken By: The Energy and Resource Institute Recent Publication: 2018
This discussion paper unpacks and analyses the reporting and review process under the existing transparency framework and put forward approaches to inform the modalities, procedures and guidelines (MPGs) for the enhanced transparency framework (ETF) of Article 13 under the Paris Agreement....
Sector: Undertaken By: Centre for Science and Environment Recent Publication: 2018
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) revised the environmental standards for coal-based thermal power stations in 2015. The deadline to meet the standards passed in 2017. As the industry fell short of achieving full compliance, the deadline was extended till 2021-22 for over 70% of the total capacity. This report, pr...
Sector: Undertaken By: Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy Recent Publication: 2018
In December 2015, the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change and Central Pollution Control Board notified more stringent emission standards for thermal power plants. This report presents a comprehensive benefit-to-cost analysis to assess the suitability and the impact of the new, more stringent emission standards for thermal power plan...
Sector: Undertaken By: Centre for Science and Environment Recent Publication: 2018
Coal-based thermal power plants are a significant source of air pollution and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To address this issue, the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change and Central Pollution Control Board notified more stringent emission standards for thermal power plants in December 2015. However, little progress has been made ...
Sector: Undertaken By: Centre for Science and Environment Recent Publication: 2018
Thermal power-plants within a radius of 300 km of Delhi and the National Capital Region (Delhi-NCR) have been directed to comply to the new and more stringent emission standards. The report presents plant-wise compliance measures undertaken by the power stations in the Delhi-NCR. The report also makes recommendations on steps which should be taken ...
Sector: Undertaken By: The Energy and Resource Institute Recent Publication: 2018
India has demonstrated its commitment to fast-track greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation measures that align well with its development priorities. A consideration of co-benefits, such as improvement of air quality, expected reductions in human health impacts, increase in agricultural yields etc. against a business-as-usual (BAU) pathway, can significant...
Sector: Undertaken By: World Resources Institute Recent Publication: 2018
Shakti in partnership with WRI India has convened a high-level platform for CEOs and business leaders with the goal of fostering Industry leadership on air quality issues. The platform acts as a forum to deliberate on the role of Indian Industry in supporting ambient air quality improvements, technology advancements, financing and innovation. It ai...
Sector: Undertaken By: World Resources Institute Recent Publication: 2018
This issue brief explores opportunities available to integrate GHG reporting within the existing reporting framework of PAT by assessing two sectors included in the PAT scheme....