Blogs
The blogs are part of WRI India’s mission to provide unbiased, expert analysis on the most important environmental issues facing the world today.
In today’s rapid-fire, fragmented information culture, we hope these insights will provide a measure of clarity to decision-makers worldwide.
Commentaries
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Executive Summary - State of Research and Development in Electric Vehicle Battery Technology
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Tracking India’s Evolving E-Mobility Startup Landscape
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Basics of Hydrogen Technology
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Accelerating Access To Wash And Healthy Spaces To Slum Communities In Urban India: Renewed Urgency Post COVID-19
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by and - Moving from City-Wide Vulnerability Assessments to Localised Community Resilience Actions
This blog was first published on NIUA.org on September 29, 2021.
Cities around the world are experiencing flooding, heatwaves and other climate-related disasters. The frequency and intensity of these disasters have amplified over the last few decades resulting in increased inequalities among communities. Ensuring equitable climate action will help support liveable neighbourhoods for people across demographic groups.
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by and - Bottlenecks for Rooftop Solar in Indian Cities and How to Address them
This blog was first published on NIUA.org on September 8, 2021.
Indian cities have figured intermittently in the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE)’s solarization plans. In 2014-2015, the MNRE launched the Solar Cities program to ensure a minimum of 10% reduction in the projected demand for conventional energy in five years through a combination of Energy Efficiency (EE) and...
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by and - How Indian Cities Could Become Climate Resilient
This blog first appeared on NIUA.org on August 4, 2021.
India’s buildings were responsible for 31% of all electricity consumed in 2017-18 (MOSPI 2020) and by 2040, this is expected to rise to half of all power consumed in the country. By 2040, India is expected to add 270 million people to its cities (IEA 2021). What is more, ongoing rapid urbanization would mean that over half the country’s population would be living in cities in less...
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by and - ‘Code Red for Humanity’: Sinking Indian cities
The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report released on 9 August 2021 warns, “India will see increased heat waves and heavy rainfall events, while glaciers will melt further, along with more compound events from rising sea-levels like flooding.” The report further states “the unequivocal human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean, and land”. As per the report, “continued global warming is projected to further intensify the global water cycle, including its variability, global monsoon...
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by and - Tackling climate risks by promoting NBS in Indian cities
This blog first appeared on NIUA.org on July 28, 2021.
Adapting to climate risks is imperative for cities. Cities are the epicentre of life-shortening pollution, dwindling water supplies, deadly heatwaves, natural disasters, and climate change. Indian cities like New Delhi, Mumbai and...
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by , , and - How Water Challenges Threaten India’s Energy Security
This blog first appeared on WRI Insights on August 26, 2021.
The start of the 2021 monsoon season was a promising time for India’s farmers and water users. Heavy rains in June and the beginning of July filled the country’s reservoirs in states like Maharashtra and...
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by and - Green Hydrogen through Electrolysis: Fuelling the Future
This is the second in a series of blogs on hydrogen, which will involve discussions around range of electrolysis technologies currently available at commercial and laboratory levels. Given the rising global consensus towards the transition towards a green hydrogen economy in coming decades, availability of commercially operable electrolysis technologies will act as a backbone of hydrogen deployment across sectors. Maturity of electrolysis technologies would also be critical in facilitating India’s 450 GW RE target, given electrolysis’s ability to manage duck curve challenges through...
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by and - Hydrogen holds promise as an alternative clean energy carrier
This is the first in series of blogs on hydrogen, which will involve discussions spanning across the value chain from production through to the cross-sectoral applications of hydrogen and its ability to decarbonise array of sectors. The announcement of the launch of National Hydrogen Mission by the Prime Minister on India’s 75th Independence Day, further solidifies the strong momentum hydrogen is gaining across the country....
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by - Bengaluru's ORR is not safe for pedestrians: Three ways to make it better
This blog first appeared on The News Minute on June 22, 2021
Pedestrians, the most vulnerable and oft-ignored of road-users, suffer the most in road crashes. Between 2015 and 2018, nearly 73,000 pedestrians were killed in crashes across India. In 2019,...
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by , and - Opportunity for Electric Two-wheeler (e-2W) in Hyperlocal Economy of India
With the pandemic a state of all pervasive geographical immobility has prevailed for a while now. There has also been an increased dependence on delivery of essentials goods. The pandemic has adversely impacted the workforce, testing capacities of the existing systems. During this ongoing crisis, home delivery options have become the “new normal” in domains like healthcare, food, grocery, and logistics services delivery, and are expected to grow further in 2021. As per reports, online food and grocery retail...
