Can We Promise to Make Next Diwali More Sustainable?
by Seerat Kaur, Envecologic Source: Airveda Monthly Data of R.K.Purram, New Delhi. The night of Diwali in Delhi, India, and days following that have led the air quality to turn severe. By definition, AQI of 401 and above refers to 'severe' and 3001-400 falls in 'very...
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Dilli ki Soch: Making Delhi A Sustainable City
A Multi-Stakeholder Discussion by ASSOCHAM, RWAs, AAP, BJP, Congress Dilli Ki Soch, an event held in Delhi on 16th October 2019 called on policy makers, political leaders, experts and industry representatives to come together with the people of the city on one forum...
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Air pollution in Delhi – Policy, people and perception
The clock is ticking fast. India’s air pollution crisis is taking an incalculable toll on public health and economic growth, and will likely exhibit much worse manifestations in times to come. Large number of credible studies have tried to quantify the impact of air...
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Is the polluted air making us a little more unwell?
As we mentioned recently, we would like to reach out to common folks and find out from them how they have been feeling in this weather and dealing with the air quality. In this segment, we decided to reach out to a pharmacy to find out if there was a jump in the...
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COP 24, Katowice, Poland, must live up to its expectations!
The 24th Meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), hosted by Poland, kick-started on December 03, 2018. Here is some of the key highlights from Day 1 of COP 24. The Katowice outcome is crucial...
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Air Pollution Stories
Do you know according to the Lancet Planetary Health Survey, Air Quality of India is so poor that it caused 1.2 million deaths in India in 2017? It was found that at least 12.5% of deaths in 2017, or one in eight, can be attributed to unusually high rates of lower...
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World Environment Day 2018: Why plastics are going to make our future inconvenient
For far too long, we have taken our environment for granted, and are now bearing the consequences. With our refusal to adopt more environment friendly habits over time, which simultaneously could have helped us adapt to the changing times, things had only become...
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Why the current state of our environment is a cause of worry
Whether we agree with it or not, truth is that there is enough scientific evidence to prove existence of environmental distortions of the highest order. Over decades as industrialization progressed and accessibility to almost everything became easier, we got so caught...
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India’s Water Crisis Is Grimmer Than We Think
Cape Town is on the verge of becoming the first major city to run out of water. The South African city has only 90 days worth of water left in the reservoirs after three years of persistent drought. The residents have been warned that the city will soon approach ‘day...
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