Blogs

This is a first in a series of blogs on community-led tree-based intervention to build climate resilience. Please read the second blog here.

The ever-increasing concrete surfaces in our cities absorb heat from solar irradiance, making the overall atmosphere unbearably hot and escalating energy demands by the residents. This phenomenon is better known as the ‘heat island effect’. Our cities also grapple with steadily rising levels of air...

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently revised its decade-old air quality guideline that now clearly indicates air pollution impacts human health at lower levels than previously understood. Home to ...

The second blog of our three-blog series on the Indian fertilizer industry discusses the requirement of ammonia as an intermediate in the manufacturing process of fertilizers and the role of hydrogen as a feedstock in ammonia synthesis. Read the first and third blog of the series.

The fertilizer industry consumes hydrogen in...

This blog is the first in a four-part series that highlights critical aspects of implementing the Mumbai Climate Action Plan. Focusing on the significance of conserving the 'Ecology' of the city, the authors outline four pathways of incorporating a sustainable landscape approach in developmental planning.

The impact of climate change on urban lives and livelihoods is worsening and this is evident in the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme rainfall events, and heat days, over the past decade. Extreme weather...

This is the second blog in our three-part blog series, that explores key insights and learnings of the Grand Challenge and electric bus procurement in urban India. Read the first blog in the series here.

The Grand Challenge is a giant stride towards the electrification of India’s public transport, paving the way for accessible, affordable, safe, and clean public transport. Under the Grand Challenge, the state-owned Convergence Energy Services Limited (CESL) announced one of the...

भारत में लगभग 6.4 करोड़ छोटे व्यवसाय समुदाय हैं, जो भारत की अर्थव्यवस्था की रीढ़ भी है। यह 11 करोड़ से अधिक लोगों को रोजगार प्रदान करते है एवं सरल घरेलू उत्पादमें लगभग एक तिहाई योगदान करते है। इस लेख के माध्यम से एमएसएमई में अक्षय ऊर्जा के विकास तथा उसके महत्व पर ध्यान केंद्रित किया जा रहा है, ऐसी स्थिति में जब कोविड -19 प्रतिबंधों के आर्थिक प्रभाव से एमएसएमई समुदाय कमजोर पड़ गया है, और बदलती हुई वास्तविकता से उबरने के नए तरीके खोज रहा है।

पिछले नवंबर, COP26 में प्रधान मंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी ने देश के लिए 2030 तक नवीकरणीय ऊर्जा (आरई) के 500 गीगावॉट का लक्ष्य रखा है और साथ ही 2070 तक...

The transport sector contributes to a fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions, making it a major contributor to the climate crisis. At present the sector’s carbon emissions’ share in developing countries might be low, but it is expected to spike as higher disposable incomes afford people more personal vehicles.

In India, the transport sector has witnessed a year-on-year growth of 5.9% Compound Annual Growth...

Clean construction practices not only improve air quality but also serve the construction sector, and the country’s economy, by limiting the need for penalties and bans.

Globally, air pollution is one of the biggest environmental risks to health, claiming over 1.67 million lives in 2019, in India alone. Breathing poor quality air also impacts the economy. The fatalities in 2019 resulted in a...

This three-part blog series examines one of the many systems Mumbai relies on during the monsoons. The first photo essay, in the series, is a description of a walk along the Mithi river, illustrating the condition of riverbanks and challenges in maintaining the river as a flood mitigation measure.

Mumbai’s perennial struggle with routine waterlogging and catastrophic floods is the result of several limitations in the city’s storm water drainage system. This includes its reliance on its riverine ecosystems of which the Mithi River is a key component.

The Mithi is an...

An underlying threat to India’s people, climate and economy, land degradation has affected almost 30 per cent of its total land. As more than half of this degraded land consists of either farmlands or forests, it is directly affecting lives of more than 700 million people who either depend on agriculture or forests for their sustenance. Restoring these farmlands and forests is not just critical for supporting livelihoods of these farmers and forest dwellers, but also for building India’s...