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No approval for KSPCB’s plan to tackle air pollution

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 22, 2019

Failing to get approval for the action plan to control air pollution in Bengaluru, the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has submitted a revised plan. The KSPCB had earlier...

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Worsening Water Quality Affects Economic Growth: World Bank

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 22, 2019

Worsening Water Quality The world faces an invisible crisis of water quality that is eliminating one-third of potential economic growth in heavily polluted areas and threatening human and...

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EESL inks pact with Apollo Hospitals to install public EV charging stations in its hospitals

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 19, 2019

State-run Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) on August 18 said it has signed a 10-year memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Apollo Hospitals Enterprises to install public electric...

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Car emission to be worst polluter in Mumbai by 2030

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 12, 2019

Increasing use of private vehicles over public transport is one of the key reasons that will see transport emission replace industrial fumes as the worst source of air pollution in the city by...

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India, UK launch clean air initiative in Bengaluru

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 1, 2019

The Innovation for Clean Air (IfCA) was launched in Bengaluru on Wednesday. The two-year UK-India joint initiative provides Indian and UK stakeholders opportunities to test interventions related...

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Thanks to IIT-B’s Invention, MP Gets India’s First Village With All-Solar Kitchens

By : Sustainability ..., Jun 12, 2019

Did you know that indoor air pollution contributes between 22 to 52 per cent to the overall pollution levels in India, according to a study by United Nations Environmental Programme? The study...

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Delhi's air quality severe, CPCB convenes emergency meeting

By : Sustainability ..., May 10, 2019

Delhi's air quality deteriorated to 'severe' due to a dust storm in northwest India which led to a sudden spike in the pollution level in the national capital, the Centre-run SAFAR said. The System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and...

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Switching to electric vehicles may improve air quality: Study

By : Sustainability ..., Apr 17, 2019

Adopting electric vehicles (EVs) could improve overall air quality and lower carbon emissions, according to a study. ...

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Climate justice critical, say senior judges

By : Sustainability ..., Mar 28, 2019

“In Chhattisgarh, land is taken away from tribals and they do not get a pittance in return,” said Justice Deepak Gupta of the Supreme Court during his address at the launch of a law programme to...

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Govt proposes national green aviation policy

By : Sustainability ..., Mar 15, 2019

The civil aviation ministry will create a simplified regulatory regime to speed up clearances for airport development and other aviation projects while taking due care of environment...

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