What’s the news? According to CPCB, Technologies such as smog towers are interventions that are still being tested and are not a final solution to the problem of pollution. The ultimate solution to pollution would be controlling it at source. …
An Overview From establishing a science policy panel for chemicals and waste management to agreeing to restore ecosystems, the world passed 14 resolutions at the resumed session of the fifth United Nations Environment Assembly (unea) held in Nairobi, Kenya, between …
Background Addressing the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India will reach carbon neutrality by 2070. He also announced a five-point action plan that included reducing emissions to 50% by 2030. Net-zero, which …
What’s the news? Palli village in Jammu’s Samba district has become the country’s first panchayat to become carbon neutral, fully powered by solar energy and with all its records digitized and saturation of benefits of all the Central schemes. News …
About NMCG National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) is registered as a society under the Societies Registration Act 1860. NMCG aims to ensure effective abatement of pollution and rejuvenation of the river Ganga by adopting a river basin approach to …
What is the Air Quality Database? The air quality database is a compilation of data on air quality and the concentrations of particulate matters in the air. It was started in 2011 and has since then been periodically updated. The …
What’s the news? A consortium of scientists part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggested that “Limiting global warming will require major transitions in the energy sector and this will mean drastically reducing fossil fuel use, widespread electrification, …
What’s the news? The World Health Organization (WHO), about six months after tightening its guidelines on air quality, issued an update to its database on air quality that draws on information from a growing number of cities, towns and villages …
What’s the news? A February report commissioned by the United Nations Environment Programme on the environmental challenges posed by noise, wildfires and the disruption of biological rhythms of plants, animals and ecological cycles became controversial on account of the mention …
About NCAP National Clean Air Program (NCAP) is a pollution control initiative that was launched by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in 2019. This is the first ever effort in the country to frame a national framework …