Growing air pollution poses a serious health risk in India.
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), Government of India, launched the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP) in 2019, with the aim to improve air-quality levels in non-attainment cities.
This article analyzes road transport in India to explore linkages between air pollution and climate change policies in the transportation sector.
According to data from the International Energy Agency (2020) and the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (2018), it is estimated that more than 90% of CO2 emissions from the transport sector is from road transport.
India’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are 2.
The year 2021-22 has been a milestone year in many ways for climate action in India.
For millions of years before human activity, the extent of heat radiated away from the earth remained largely unchanged, thus ensuring global climate patterns remained stable.
The compounded effects of urbanization and climate change are taking a serious toll on rapidly growing urban spaces around the world.
India is vulnerable, in varying degrees, to multiple disasters.
Climate finance was one of the most contested issues at COP26 in Glasgow last November.
Several parts of India reeled under a heatwave in April with temperatures soaring from 43 Degree Celsius to 46 Degree Celsius - the highest since 1901.
Climate Change may feel like an insurmountable problem and our future may look bleak.
Year after year, the many days marked for environmental awareness push for concrete actions to protect our planet.
We are witnessing the first signs of the climate crisis.
We began ‘Climate On Our Mind’ on World Environment Day with the word Resilience.
Climate change will amplify the existing risks and create new risks for natural and socio-economic systems.
