Urban forests towards environmental and social justice: the case of Dhaka
The author of this article is Suraiya Begum Ruhi, MSc student of Resource Economics and Sustainable Development at the University of Bologna. Dhaka is one of the world’s top ten megacities with over 21 million people, facing a severe air quality crisis due to vehicle emissions, industrial activities, and unregulated construction. Transforming underutilised spaces into green oases […]
India looking forward to bank on Solar power
In India, Solar power has become the catchword for many states in recent times. Internationally, the price of solar power components has been declining at 15% year over year, and states are leveraging this trend. India’s commitments on increasing its non-fossil fuel component of power generation to 40% by 2030 are substantial. Even though coal […]
Paris Summit 2015 – Each country’s pledge
Carbon Brief has been following each country’s pledge towards the Paris 2015 summit. Here on this post you will find more details on how each country pledged in the upcoming summit. While for some countries, the pledges seem a big task however it will be interesting to see if they manage to achieve the target. […]
World Air Quality Index
Couple of hours ago, I saw this really interesting website where you can find the pollution levels city by city just by one click. This site give you a world map with numbers on it and on the top you can find the bracket or category where the pollution limit is mentioned. My city has […]
Obama’s new climate change plan – Is it a ‘kitchen sink’ approach?
If you have been reading the latest news, you would have read about Obama’s new Climate Change Plan. What the plan actually means is the Clean Power Plan sets standards to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from 32% from 2005 levels by 2030, which is 9% more than proposed earlier. That’s drastic change in their policy. […]
World’s most polluted cities – 13 out of top 20 cities are in India.
Few months back I wrote on Delhi has become numero 1 as world’s most polluted city. However according to the lastest data by WHO not only Delhi tops the list but 12 other cities from India are on the top 20 most polluted cities in the world. Even for me that is really surprising. China […]