27 January, 2025Construction sector and air pollution: Evidence from India
The construction sector has emerged as a significant yet often overlooked contributor to worsening air quality in India. Exploring the link between construction activities and air pollution, this arti...
-
Hammad Farooqui 
20 January, 2025
- Articles
Does industrial water pollution harm agricultural production?
While toxic foam regularly appears on lakes and rivers in major Indian cities, water pollution has not received as much attention as air pollution. Examining the impact of industrial water pollution o...
-
Nicholas Hagerty Anshuman Tiwari
- 02 January, 2025
- Articles
Voluntary mobility to adapt to changing climate: A pathway to achieving SDGs
While the impacts of climate change affect all populations across the world, some are more at risk than others based on their geographical and socioeconomic positioning. Drawing on examples of climate...
-
Sampurna Sarkar
- 16 September, 2024
- Perspectives
Information and Fuel Choices in Unequal Rural Households
The project studies the factors that affect household’s choice of fuels and associated devices. It attempts to determine how these choices are made when additional information about the costs and be...
-
P.P. Krishnapriya
- 01 May, 2013
- IGC Research on India
The unsustainability of fossil fuel use in India
India’s dependence on fossil fuel is widely regarded as unsustainable. This column highlights that this unsustainability is not just environmental in character, but is emerging as a macroeconomic o...
-
Ramprasad Sengupta
- 17 April, 2013
- Articles
Low-carbon development in Indian agriculture: A missed opportunity?
The agricultural sector is the largest contributor of Greenhouse Gases in India. Yet, it has not received due importance in India’s climate change mitigation strategy. This column says that India m...
-
Olivier Charnoz Ashwini K. Swain
- 12 April, 2013
- Articles
India's energy consumption: The next 20 years
The environment is a concern the world over – and India is no exception. This column plots India’s energy consumption through to 2032, asking where the challenges lie and where policy reform might...
-
Ramprasad Sengupta
- 08 March, 2013
- Articles
US-China relations: Role reversal will slow climate change
This column proposes a new approach to climate change that involves China, and eventually other developing countries, offering inducements to the West to take steps to foster a private-sector led gree...
-
Aaditya Mattoo Arvind Subramanian
- 23 January, 2013
- Articles
Eliminating Delhi's November smog
Around this time every year, the air in Delhi becomes almost unbearable. As politicians and the press point fingers, this column offers up a happy solution.
-
Ridhima Gupta E. Somanathan
- 14 December, 2012
- Articles
The Clean Development Mechanism in India – is it working?
The Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol allows developing countries to profit from climate friendly projects, and India is second only to China in using the mechanism to help reduce its ...
-
Johannes Urpelainen
- 01 October, 2012
- Articles
Climate Volatility Change and Precautionary Behaviour
Climate change has generated much attention. Upward trends in average temperature are well documented facts. Relatively less studies have been undertaken on the impact of the increase in climate volat...
-
Giacomo De Giorgi Luigi Pistaferri
- 30 September, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Rapid Response on institutional reform of minor irrigation department in conjunction with CEEW
The project was carried out on the request of Principal Secretary, Minor Water Resource Department (MWRD), Government of Bihar on how to reform the MWRD. The study used different parmeters to assess t...
-
Arunabha Ghosh Ranu Sinha Rudresh K. Sugam
- 01 July, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Has environmental regulation been successful in India?
India has an impressive number of environmental regulations – but have they been a success? This column presents evidence that while initiatives such as catalytic converters for cars have reduced ai...
-
Michael Greenstone Rema Hanna
- 16 May, 2012
- Articles
Strengthening the Institutional Framework for Flood and Water Resources Management in Bihar: Developing a Strategy for Reform (Phase 1)
This project aims to shape policies related to the institutional framework of flood and water resources in the state of Bihar. Based on the analysis and recommendations made, this project aims to redu...
-
Martin Burton Ranu Sinha Ghanshyam Tiwari
- 01 May, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Strengthening the Institutional Framework for flood and water resources management in Bihar: Developing a strategy for reform'-- Phase 2
Phase 2 of the study attempts to go beyond merely identifying challenges facing Bihar's WRD and spell out reforms and organisational challenges that are required to strengthen the Government of Bihar'...
-
Martin Burton Ranu Sinha Ghanshyam Tiwari
- 01 May, 2012
- IGC Research on India
Twitter feed
Tweets by Ideas4IndiaMost Popular Environment Posts
Happy Seeder: A solution to agricultural fires in north India
It is believed that much of the pollution in Delhi in November every year originates in the neighbouring states of Punjab and Haryana where farmers burn their fields to dispose of crop residue. This ...
- Ridhima Gupta E. Somanathan
- 12 November, 2016
- Articles
Carbon dioxide emissions from India’s industries: Data sources and discrepancies
Industries are one of the most significant contributors to energy-related carbon-dioxide (energy-CO2) emissions in India – the share of industries in the total emissions was 25%, second only to powe...
- Manisha Jain
- 02 May, 2022
- Perspectives
Has environmental regulation been successful in India?
India has an impressive number of environmental regulations – but have they been a success? This column presents evidence that while initiatives such as catalytic converters for cars have reduced ai...
- Michael Greenstone Rema Hanna
- 16 May, 2012
- Articles