Air Pollution

Push for cleaner stoves in poor countries to cut pollution

Every evening, hundreds of millions of Indian women hover over crude stoves making dinner for their families.

Publication Date: 
08/04/2015
Daily Mail (United Kingdom)
Tags:
Air Pollution, Chulhas (Cookstoves), India, Women, Indoor Air Pollution, Kerosene, Health Effects, Climate Change
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
Air Pollution

Overview of WHO guidelines for indoor air quality

Presentation by Dr. Carlos Dora of World Health Organization at the Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2015: Poor in climate change, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, March 11 – 12, 2015.

Carlos Dora
Tags:
Household Energy, Indoor Air Pollution, Health Effects, Anil Agarwal Dialogue, WHO, Women, Child Health, Respiratory Diseases, Cancer, RSPM (PM 10), PM 2.5, Carbon Monoxide, Coal, Kerosene
Air Pollution

Household energy, health, and climate: the Kerosene Story

Presentation by Kirk R. Smith, University of California-Berkeley and Nicholas Lam, University of Illinois-Urbana at the Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2015: Poor in climate change, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, March 11 – 12, 2015.

Kirk R. Smith, Nicholas Lam
Tags:
Household Energy, Health Effects, Climate, Kerosene, Black Carbon, Green House Gases, Anil Agarwal Dialogue, Diesel, Carbon Dioxide, Respiratory Diseases, Tuberculosis, Cancer, Indoor Air Pollution, Nepal, South Asia, Biomass, Coal
Energy

Contours of Inequality : What census 2011 tells about India's energy poverty

Access to energy is an important determinant of quality of life. Inequality of access to energy for cooking, lighting and livelihood purposes has engaged the attention of researchers, policy planners and activists in recent years. In 2005, India

Publication Date: 
11/03/2015
Centre for Science and Environment
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
Tags:
Energy, India, Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana, Electricity, Renewable Energy, LPG, Punjab, Kerosene, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir
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

Nigeria: Phasing Out Ozone Depleting Substances

The year 2015 is opening with a new hope for cleaner environment in terms of tackling challenges that hindered the efforts of achieving the set goals in 2014 for a sustainable environment.

Publication Date: 
08/01/2015
All Africa
Tags:
Environment, Ozone Layer, Nigeria, Plastics, Kerosene, Hazardous Products, Africa
Air Pollution

Move to Euro 5, make diesel cars costlier

Delhi has the dubious distinction of being ranked the most polluted city in the world by WHO. A random check of Delhi’s pollution last week showed particulate matter (PM) 2.5 levels at 441 mcgm3.

Publication Date: 
26/11/2014
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Delhi, Air Pollution, Diesel, Cars, Kerosene, Vehicular Pollution, Asthma, Health Effects
Air Pollution

Indoor air quality guidelines: household fuel combustion

Almost 3 billion people, in low- and middle-income countries mostly, still rely on solid fuels (wood, animal dung, charcoal, crop wastes and coal) burned in inefficient and highly polluting stoves for cooking and heating.

Publication Date: 
24/11/2014
World Health Organization
Tags:
Indoor Air Pollution, Household Energy, Coal, Kerosene, Health Effects, Environmental Health, India, Global, Climate Impacts, Emission Targets, PM 2.5
Energy

Solar Lanterns Change Life in Kwale

A COMMUNITY in Kwale which has been living in the dark has every reason to smile after an NGO introduced solar powered lantern and lighting kits to the village.

Publication Date: 
17/10/2014
All Africa
Tags:
Energy, Solar Energy, Renewable Energy, WWF, NGO, Kerosene, Biomass, Africa

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