World’s 1st pollution market for PM emissions was set up in Gujarat industrial hub as part of University of Chicago's EPIC India study, gave better results than conventional regulations.
The Vehicle Scrapping Policy 2021 promised cleaner air, perks for owners of old cars, and gains for scrapping facilities. But complaints are growing on every front.
China, the UK and the US are leading the global EV race, but a rollback of the EV subsidies provided under the Biden regime is unlikely to play out in the favour of the US.
Till Saturday, a majority of Delhi’s pollution load was from stubble fires (25.10%), followed by vehicular emission (12.58%), & contamination from neighbouring states.
Polluting vehicles are restricted or regulated in low emission zones. Earlier, Delhi, Agra have taken piecemeal measures to address air quality issues by regulating vehicular flow.
Maruti Suzuki chairman RC Bhargava said that hybrid vehicles are cleaner than BEVs. An EREV or PHEV may be cleaner than a mild hybrid, but none of them are zero-emissions like a BEV.
Findings don't imply 1.5C threshold is breached, but means earth has already warmed enough to start recording such temperatures. India may see more weather extremes like droughts.
EPI 2022, which placed Indian at bottom, was rejected by the Centre. Bad air quality, high projected emissions & low biodiversity-habitat scores behind poor rank this year.
Cellular agriculture can enable widespread production of animal proteins, with cultivated beef well-positioned to become a sustainable consumer choice.
Cement contributes to 8% of human-made GHG emissions. Substituting clinker in cement with the material LC3 can save up to 500 million tons of emissions by 2030.
In the event of another terror attack, the retributive action against Pakistan will be even more severe than what it experienced in the first phase of Operation Sindoor.
Driving this wave of interest is the upcoming Rising North-East Investors Summit in New Delhi, organised by the Ministry for Development of the North Eastern Region.
India to maintain confidence-building measures as Pakistan says military-to-military communications led to extension of ceasefire understanding until 18 May.
Kashmir’s return to normalcy, for Pakistan Army Chief Gen Asim Munir, had to be reversed. Pahalgam wasn’t plotted in the week between the speech. It must have taken several weeks, if not months of planning.
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