Forests

Kenya: Study - Kenya Loses 5.6 Million Trees Daily

Eighty four-year-old Kalekye Kyundua has depended on firewood for domestic use in her lifetime.

Publication Date: 
27/03/2015
All Africa
Tags:
Forests, Deforestation, Kenya, Trees, Firewood, Africa
Air Pollution

Particulate pollution and its health impacts from brick kiln clusters in South Asian cities

Presentation by Dr. Sarath Guttikunda of UrbanEmissions.Info at Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2015: Poor in climate change, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, March 11 – 12, 2015.

Sarath Guttikunda
Tags:
Bricks, South Asia, India, Air Pollution, PM 2.5, Urban Air Quality, Anil Agarwal Dialogue, Coal, Farm Residues, Crop Residues, Firewood, Animal Dung, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Dhaka, Patna (D), Air Quality and Health
Air Pollution

Indoor air pollution: Indian perspectives

Presentation by Damodar Bachani of Ministry of Health and Family Welfare at the Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2015: Poor in climate change, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, March 11 – 12, 2015.

Damodar Bachani
Tags:
Indoor Air Pollution, Health Effects, Anil Agarwal Dialogue, Respiratory Diseases, Heart Diseases, Diabetes, India, PM 2.5, Firewood, Animal Dung, Farm Residues
Energy

Energy poverty in India compounded by inequality

Presentation by Satish B Agnihotri at the Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2015: Poor in climate change, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, March 11 – 12, 2015.

Satish B Agnihotri
Tags:
Energy, Electricity, India, Anil Agarwal Dialogue, Poverty, Rural Electrification, Rural Energy, Kerosene, Firewood, LPG, Biogas, Animal Dung, Crop Residues
Industry

Overview on brick kiln: Pollution, technology and where we need to go

Presentation by Nivit Kumar Yadav of Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) at the Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2015: Poor in climate change, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, March 11 – 12, 2015.

Nivit Kumar Yadav
Tags:
Bricks, India, Building Materials, Air Pollution, Coal, Firewood, China, Bangladesh, Black Carbon, Soil Capability, Workers, Child Labour, Occupational Health, Pakistan, Vietnam, Nepal, South Asia, Land Degradation, Anil Agarwal Dialogue
Climate Change

National emission inventory of black carbon : Uncertainty analyses

Presentation by Dr. Mukesh Sharma & Umed Paliwal of Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur at Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2015: Poor in climate change, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, March 11 – 12, 2015.

Dr. Mukesh Sharma, Umed Paliwal
Tags:
Black Carbon, Aerosols, India, Glacial Melt, Climate Change, Himalaya, Thermal Power Plants, Cement Industry, Iron And Steel Industry, Industrial Pollution, Crop Residues, Forest Fires, Vehicular Pollution, Diesel, Coal, Animal Dung, LPG, Firewood, Household Energy, Anil Agarwal Dialogue
Climate Change

Co-benefits of reducing short-lived greenhouse pollutants or PICs and the poor

Presentation by Kirk R. Smith, Professor of Global Environmental Health University of California, Berkeley at Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2015: Poor in climate change, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, March 11 – 12, 2015.

Kirk R. Smith
Tags:
Green House Gases, Chulhas (Cookstoves), Biomass, Poverty, Black Carbon, China, United States Of America (US), Health Effects, Methane, Haryana, India, Indoor Air Pollution, Household Energy, Biogas, LPG, Kerosene, Firewood, Crop Residues, Animal Dung, Air Pollution, PM 2.5, Anil Agarwal Dialogue
Environment

16 brick kilns fined for burning firewood in Rangpur, Jhenidah

Mobile courts in Rangpur and Jhenidah districts fined 16 brick kilns for illegal activities on Tuesday and the day before.

Publication Date: 
26/02/2015
Daily Star (Bangladesh)
Tags:
Environment, Bricks, Firewood, Coal, Deforestation, Rangpur, Bangladesh, South Asia
Air Pollution

Chongqing bans smoked bacon in bid to ease air pollution

CHONGQING - Residents in Southwest China's Chongqing municipality have been banned from making smoked bacon, a traditional method of preserving pork, as it is blamed for causing foul air in the cit

Publication Date: 
22/01/2015
China Daily
Tags:
Air Pollution, Air Pollution Control, China, Vehicular Pollution, Firewood, Natural Gas, Electricity, PM 2.5
Climate Change

The carbon footprint of traditional woodfuels

Over half of all wood harvested worldwide is used as fuel, supplying ~9% of global primary energy. By depleting stocks of woody biomass, unsustainable harvesting can contribute to forest degradation, deforestation and climate change. However, past efforts to quantify woodfuel sustainability failed to provide credible results. The researchers present a spatially explicit assessment of pan-tropical woodfuel supply and demand, calculate the degree to which woodfuel demand exceeds regrowth, and estimate woodfuel-related greenhouse-gas emissions for the year 2009.

Publication Date: 
19/01/2015
Robert Bailis, Rudi Drigo, Adrian Ghilardi & et al
Nature Climate Change
1-7
Tags:
Wood, Firewood, Deforestation, Climate Change, Green House Gases, South Asia, Africa, India, China

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