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Delhi Metro Will Provide Electric Scooters At Stations For Emission Free Last Mile Connectivity

By : Sustainability ..., May 21, 2019

Delhi Metro Rail Corporation is embracing the advent of electric vehicles. As per news reports, the transport corporation is now coming up with plans to bring in electric scooters at five of its...

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COP22 Climate Talks: Delhi calls for global action to curb emissions before 2020

By : sustainabilityo..., Nov 8, 2016

As poor air quality chokes Delhi, India has called for global action to reduce carbon pollution immediately rather than waiting for 2020 in Marrakech where countries have gathered to prepare rules and regulations for implementing the Paris climate...

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Subject Tags: Climate Change , COP 22 , Delhi

Delhi govt forms panel for report on solid waste management

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 24, 2016

A day after being rapped by the Supreme Court for not doing enough to dispose of the huge quantity of garbage in the national capital, the Delhi government today formed a three-member committee...

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Air quality in Delhi plunges to 'very poor' level

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 23, 2015

 Air quality in Delhi plunged to the 'very poor' level with real-time readings of PM 2.5, the tiniest and most damaging of all the particulate matters, breaching the 'severe' category in areas across the national capital.

Around 10 PM, in three stations of System of...

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Subject Tags: air pollution , Delhi

Emissions in Delhi could rise up to 19 times by 2020

By : sustainabilityo..., Dec 21, 2015

An eight-year study, from 2008-2015, conducted by the IIT-Roorkee, University of Minnesota in the US and University of Surrey, UK, has shown that emissions from vehicles in Delhi have increased up to three times between 1991 and 2011; these could rise by up to 19 times by...

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