Air Pollution

Smoke spewers duck green law but no one stops them in Kolkata

Strict emission standard but lenient enforcement is what marks the city's approach to pollution control.

Publication Date: 
31/03/2015
Times of India (Kolkata)
Tags:
West Bengal, Kolkata, Air Pollution, Vehicular Pollution, LPG, Pollution Under Control Certification
Energy

Fossil fuel subsidies: approaches and valuation

Numbers ranging from half a trillion to two trillion dollars have been cited in recent years for global subsidies for fossil fuels. How are these figures calculated and why are they so

Publication Date: 
23/03/2015
Masami Kojima, Doug Koplow
The World Bank
Tags:
Fossil Fuels, Subsidies, Coal, Oil, Natural Gas, Fuel Pricing, India, Global, LPG, Direct Cash Transfer, Electricity
Economy

Long on announcements, short on intent

The first full-year budget of the National Democratic Alliance government announced a sharp focus on investment, growth and social security. In addition, Budget 2015-16 claims to have given a boost to cooperative federalism. The budget indeed makes numerous impressive-sounding announcements, but stumbles in the details. This article focuses on the attention-grabbing push for investments and finds that the target of Rs 70,000 crore investment may be over-ambitious.

Publication Date: 
21/03/2015
Ajit Karnik, Mala Lalvani
Economic and Political Weekly
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Tags:
Budget, Political Parties, Infrastructure Development, India, Statistics, Finance, Public Sector, Subsidies, LPG, Food Security, Farmers
Air Pollution

Global initiatives on clean cookstoves: What has worked

Presentation by Donee Alexander of Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves at the Anil Agarwal Dialogue 2015: Poor in climate change, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, March 11 – 12, 2015.

Donee Alexander
Tags:
Chulhas (Cookstoves), Anil Agarwal Dialogue, Indoor Air Pollution, Health Effects, Biomass, LPG, Africa, India, Bangladesh, South Asia, WHO, Climate, Women, Indonesia
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
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

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
Energy

Clean, affordable and sustainable cooking energy for India: possibilities and realities beyond LPG

CEEW's latest study 'Clean, Affordable and Sustainable Cooking Energy for India: Possibilities and Realities beyond LPG' analyses potential alternate cooking options, going beyond LPG.

Publication Date: 
20/02/2015
Abhishek Jain, Poulami Choudhury, Karthik Ganesan
Council on Energy, Environment and Water
Tags:
Chulhas (Cookstoves), Household Energy, LPG, Biomass, Biogas, Electric, Indoor Air Pollution, Health Effects, India, Green House Gases
Energy

Punjab govt plans to set up Asia's first bio-ethanol refinery

This will go a long way in tackling the major problem of paddy straw burning, resulting in irreparable loss to land's fertility and environment

Publication Date: 
30/01/2015
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Punjab, Ethanol, Renewable Energy, LPG, Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, Energy

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