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Sustainable Cities

Perspectives

October 14, 2022

What Can Be Monitored Can Be Managed: Air Quality Monitoring in Smart Cities

Home to 22 of the world's 30 most polluted cities, the bulk of India's population breathes air that is at least 10 times more polluted than WHO's previous PM 2.5 standards.

Perspectives

October 4, 2022

Emission Reduction Potential of Green Hydrogen in Ammonia Synthesis for Fertilizer Industry

Incorporating green hydrogen in fertilizer manufacturing is crucial to eliminate emissions completely by modifying production infrastructure.

Sustainable Cities

Perspectives

September 30, 2022

Exploring Pathways to a Climate Resilient Mumbai: Adopting a Sustainable Landscapes Approach to Urban Development

Mumbai’s Monsoons: A yearly ordeal for Mumbaikars.

Perspectives

September 12, 2022

Expanding the Footprint of the Grand Challenge Across Tier-II India

Procurement of electric buses in Delhi. Photo by Mahak Dawra/WRI India

Perspectives

September 8, 2022

हरियाणा में एमएसएमई सौर ऊर्जा को अपनाने के लिए चुनौतियों का सामना कर रही हैं

विकासशील भारत खुद को स्वच्छ ऊर्जा को अपनाने की दिशा में प्रेरित करता रहा है और 2030 तक 500 GW का अक्षय ऊर्जा का लक्ष्य निर्धारित करा है। फोटो क्रेडिट: काजोल/ डब्लू आर आई इंडिया

Perspectives

September 2, 2022

Oil Is Waning and EVs Are Waxing, but How Do We Prepare Our Power Grids To Manage the Surge?

Buildings in Indian cities are expected to double their energy consumption by 2040 Photo by: Shutterstock.

Sustainable Cities

Perspectives

August 24, 2022

Why Urban India Needs a Clean Construction Approach

Why Urban India needs a Clean Construction Approach

Perspectives

August 17, 2022

Walking Along the Mithi River: Exploring a 17 KM Long Trained River and Its Riverine Ecosystem

The Mithi is an urban river whose course has been trained and altered over the years, for almost its entire 17 km stretch.

Food, Land and Water

Perspectives

August 8, 2022

Restoring Lands Across South Asia With a Unique Entrepreneurial Approach

Perspectives

August 1, 2022

Hydrogen Application in Indian Fertilizer Industry: An Introduction

Hydrogen Application in Indian Fertilizer Industry: An Introduction

Climate, Economics and Finance

Perspectives

July 22, 2022

Floods and Landslides in Assam: A Warning or an Opportunity To Reorient Development?

Floods and Landslides in Assam

Perspectives

July 7, 2022

Youth Redefine Public Spaces: Learnings From Rohtak, Haryana

Can city planners work with architects and urban designers to reimagine unsafe, congested and underused spaces in our cities? Photo by WRI India.

Perspectives

July 1, 2022

Key Lessons for India’s Bus Electrification Drive

The government now intends to procure 50,000 e-buses by 2030 through CESL

Perspectives

June 28, 2022

6 Ways To Design Safer School Zones: Lessons From Mumbai

A new safe school zone in Mumbai was co-developed with students to support their needs, likes and aspirations for an improved experience as they go back to school. All photos by WRI India

Perspectives

June 23, 2022

How COVID-19 Pushed India’s Climate Migrants to the Brink?

The COVID-19 pandemic added doubly to the pressure of migration, highlighting the apathy of the migrant population struggling to return to native towns.

Perspectives

June 15, 2022

Is Blue Hydrogen a Worthy Contender for Net Zero Transition?

In India private conglomerates are targeting blue hydrogen in the interim period till the price of green hydrogen has cost parity with its grey counterpart.

Food, Land and Water

Perspectives

May 5, 2022

Photo Story: Tracking Tomatoes From Plough to Plate

Growing tomatoes is often a gamble even for well-informed, progressive farmers, due to high input costs, sensitivity to climatic variations such as frost, rainfall, temperature, the perishable nature of the crop, and uncertain market returns.

Perspectives

March 23, 2022

How India Can Grow Its Economy Through Stronger Climate Action

In India under the current practices, more than half of India’s projected carbon dioxide emissions in 2040 will come from buildings, appliances, factories and vehicles that do not yet exist.

Perspectives

March 21, 2022

Groundwater Regulation: A Challenge To Make the ‘Invisible Visible’ in India

According to the World Bank Report, 2012, India is the world’s largest groundwater user, estimated at 230 cubic kilometres per year − over a quarter of the global total.

Sustainable Cities

Perspectives

February 14, 2022

Conventional Pathways for Hydrogen Production

It is expected that green hydrogen will play a critical role in meeting rising cross-sectoral demand.