Delhi has become a centre of controversy and politics for the continuously rising and persisting levels of high AQI. Rising vehicular emission, industrial expansion, burning of stubble, etc. remains to be the prime suspected reason for this. States keep blaming each other for transmitting it with lesser stricter action against polluters.
On a humid August morning, Washington DC awoke to the sight of National Guard convoys rumbling through its avenues. United States President Donald Trump had invoked a rarely used clause of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, taking direct control of the capital’s police and declaring a ‘crime emergency’.
The Adani group is entering the battery energy storage system business, with an initial planned capacity of 1.126GW of power, capable of delivering that power for around three hours. This solves two kinds of problems, but creates two larger ones, of supply-chain dependence on China and significant indirect emissions of the kind green energy is supposed to avoid.
India is witnessing one of the major demographic transitions in the world, marked by ongoing rapid urbanization and an upward trajectory. This transformation places a significant pressure on the country's existing infrastructure systems. India’s urban population saw a rapid rise between 2001 to 2011, surging from 286.1 million to 377.1 million. It is estimated that by 2031, India will have approximately 600 million urban residents.
If winter comes, can spring be far behind? Given the 23.5 degree tilt of the earth’s axis, which produces the seasons during the course of the planet’s steady rotation around the sun, such poetic expectation of inevitable good tidings is pretty realistic. But the hope that if you build giant data centres, a boom in artificial intelligence capability and its applications would follow rests on shakier ground.
Policy UpdateMuskan Thakur “This word is LiFE, which means ‘Lifestyle For Environment’. Today, there is a need for all of us to come together and take Lifestyle For Environment forward as a campaign. This can become a mass movement towards…
The panel discussion on “Air Pollution Crisis: Politics, Policy and Impact,” organized by the IMPRI Centre for Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, brought together experts, practitioners, and policy analysts. They examined India's worsening air pollution emergency from scientific, political, economic, and public health angles.