Still charging: India’s electric vehicle plan
For a country like India, where high levels of air pollution in cities is slowly turning into a national emergency, large scale adoption of electric vehicles powered by renewable power…
Gujarat pilots emissions trading programme to tackle air pollution
The western state of Gujarat has launched the world’s first trading programme for particulate air pollution. The pilot, launched on World Environment Day in June this year, replicates a market-based…
Low carbon growth: A mirage or a target well in sight?
“The entire Mahindra Group and all its companies would be carbon neutral 10 years before the Paris Agreement deadline by 2040.” Indian business magnate, Mahindra Group’s Chairman Anand Mahindra, made…
Is India ready for a cycling revolution?
Forty-year-old Sudipto Roy working in a multinational firm in Delhi tried cycling to his office, nearly 22-km away from his home, instead of using his car, but gave up the…
Less firewood at home means better health for the family
While air pollution in metropolitan cities like Delhi has hogged the headlines over the past few years, we don’t know much about how our emissions from various activities are affecting…
