Businesses in India are increasingly aligning with Paris climate goals by setting targets to reduce emissions and by putting an internal price on carbon as a risk mitigation tool
Corporations in India are increasingly setting targets to reduce emissions by using energy more efficiently and deploying the use of renewable energy for business operations…Read More
Climate resilience in Chennai’s neighbourhoods depends not only on their land use and hydrology, but also on the social and economic abilities of residents, and their capacity to improvise systems to overcome a crisis
When Chennai flooded in end-2015, newly developed areas such as Velachery flooded more than older parts of the city such as Mylapore…Read More
Chennai has lost much of its climate resilience due the shrinking of its wetlands and forest patches, which has drastically reduced the city’s ability to soak up excess rainwater
It is the network of blue and green that provides climate resilience to Chennai — blue of its wetlands and green of its patches of vegetation. This protective combination is now under stress…Read More
This latest report by Emission Database for Global Atmospheric Research concludes that in 2016, total global greenhouse gas emissions continued to increase by about 0.5% reaching 49.3 gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent…Read more
The massive rise in air pollution in Delhi on the evening of Diwali shows that the judicial ban on sale of firecrackers is not enough, and action is required on multiple fronts to tackle the noxious haze
This Diwali was going to be different in Delhi. It wasn’t. Although the Supreme Court banned the sale of firecrackers before the festival and the dust from construction was low…Read More
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