Rickshaws to the rescue
WHEN the Delhi Rickshaw Chalak-Malik Sangharsh Morcha (rickshaw drivers and owners agitation committee) staged a demonstration in front of the office of the Municipal corporation of Delhi (MCD) on
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Order of the Supreme Court regarding parking space, 02/09/2019
<p>Proper assessment of the parking needs and the requisite parking facilities for the next 25 years should be taken into consideration while granting permission to build any structures, the Supreme Court (SC) directed the Government of Delhi in its order of September 2, 2019. Further, the municipal corporations of Delhi have been asked to ensure that the pavements are cleared of all encroachments.</p>
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Assessment of the scale of potential indirect emissions due to higher oil use
The inclusion of indirect land use change (ILUC) emissions in the life-cycle assessment of biofuels in several biofuel policies has led to increased attention to the question of whether there are similar,
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Jammed!
The state of our nation
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What is Aam Aadmi Party’s new deal on transport?
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Greenhouse gas emission footprints and energy use benchmarks for eight U.S. cities
A hybrid life cycle-based trans-boundary greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions footprint is elucidated at the city-scale and evaluated for 8 US cities.
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CO2 reduction technologies for the European car and van fleet, a 2025–2030 assessment
Finds that for cars, the cost for meeting a 2025 target value of 70 g/km (as measured in the New European Driving Cycle - NEDC) is between 250 and 500 euros higher than would be the case in a footprint-based
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The future of vehicle fuels and technologies: anticipating health benefits and challenges
<p>This report reviews new vehicle fuels and technologies that are likely to be commercially available within the next 10 years in the United States and other industrialized countries at a level that could result in significant population exposure.
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Is free parking our inalienable right?
<p>‘We want free parking…..’ is the petulant tantrum of the rich in Delhi. Read this news…The trader association of one of the most happening, and upmarket area in Delhi – Khan Market has moved the High Court to oppose the orders of the Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority to charge for parking.
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Kudzu (Pueraria montana) invasion doubles emissions of nitric oxide and increases ozone pollution
Planted in the early 20th century to help control erosion, kudzu is a fast-growing invasive legume that fixes atmospheric nitrogen at a high rate. The Asian native is not just swallowing landscapes and altering ecosystems in the southeastern United States, the plant may also increase ozone pollution. Jonathan Hickman et al.
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Hindustan motors
Can India ever have car free centres?
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3 day Training Programme on Policy, Planning and Design for Sustainable Mobility
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is offering a three-day training programme to sensitise young professionals and students on urban design planning and policy interventions for sustainable transport required to make our cities liveable.
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3 day Training Programme on Policy, Planning and Design for Sustainable Mobility
<div> Indian cities were originally designed as compact entities to reduce travel trip length. But with rapid urbanization and motorization, our sprawling cities are becoming victims of killer pollution,
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Dangers of letting cars dictate city design
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Draft Twelfth Five Year Plan (2012–2017)
The Plan proposes an acceleration of growth over the plan period to reach 9 percent in the terminal year, yielding an average growth rate of 8.2 percent for the plan period as a whole. It emphasizes that
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Global nutrient transport in a world of giants
<p>The past was a world of giants, with abundant whales in the sea and large animals roaming the land. However, that world came to an end following massive late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions on land
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Cycling crusade
The cycling junkets of the chief minister (CM) of Delhi, Sahib Singh Verma, came to a breaking halt with the sudden turn of events at the Centre. The CM has been pedalling hard on his bicycle to push
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An earful of high decibels
As the rumble of traffic in the Capital gets louder, experts come up with various ways to clear the clatter
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A global map of urban extent from nightlights
<p>Urbanization, a major driver of global change, profoundly impacts our physical and social world, for example, altering not just water and carbon cycling, biodiversity, and climate, but also demography,
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Citizen’s report: air quality and mobility in Kolkata
As India has yet to build much of its projected urban transport infrastructure, this presents a challenge as well as an opportunity. The new investment if guided by the principles of sustainability can