Clean measures
Kathmandu s growing air pollution forces authorities to enforce strict regulations
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Nepal to ban old vehicles to check air pollution
Nepal's cabinet has approved a move to ban pre-1980 vehicles from the streets of the Himalayan kingdom next year to combat growing air pollution, a government official said yesterday. "All vehicles
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Accessing Asia: air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions indicators for road transport and electricity
<p><span id="itro1">At current annual average growth rates, the number of vehicles in Asia will double in less than seven years from 2010 and India along with Indonesia, Nepal, PR China & Sri Lanka
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Nepal looks forward to a breath of fresh air
Nepal has embarked on a major battle against air pollution with the government announcing several measures to improve air quality in the bowl-shaped Kathmandu valley. The government has decided to
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Valley's air remains the same
Air quality in Kathmandu has not improved despite the Nepal government's ban last year that threw out some 600 diesel-run Vikran tempos from Kathmandu, researchers claimed. According to data analysis
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Nepal State of Environment Report: The Monthly Overview, April 2014
<p>A project launched in the Far-Western region of Nepal, to provide clean and energy efficient cooking stoves to 150,000 households has become the country’s first of its kind as part of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) scheme. Read more in this April 2014 edition of the Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Nepal</p>
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Keep track of pollution levels through electronic board
Do you know hazardous is th air you are breathing? Well,you can soon red the level of air pollution yourself, just like the scoreboard in cricket. Nepal ministry of Population and Environment (MoPE)
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Improve air quality
The government of Nepal introduced emission control laws to put an end to smoke belching vehicles in the capital city in 1997. Two years later, no one can claim that Kathmandu's air has become any
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Transport of short-lived climate forcers/pollutants (SLCF/P) to the Himalayas during the South Asian summer monsoon onset
Over the course of six years (2006–2011), equivalent black carbon (eqBC), coarse aerosol mass (PM 1–10), and surface ozone (O 3), observed during the monsoon onset period at the Nepal Climate Observatory–Pyramid
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Nepal bans 2-stroke motorbike
Nepal has banned the import of two-stroke motorcycles in a bid to improve air quality in the Himalayan kingdom, a newspaper report said on Tuesday. Mr. Bhakta Bahadur Balayar, a junior minister in
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Nepal State of Environment Report: The Monthly Overview, March, 2014
<p>Nepal has achieved a new milestone in conservation by achieving ‘zero poaching’ of rhinos, tigers and elephants for the year period ending in February 2014, according to the World Wildlife Fund Nepal. Read more in this March 2014 edition of the Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Nepal.</p>
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Wise decision
The Nepalese government revokes a week long ban on clean vehicles
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Focus on cheap, clean alternative energy
Experts in Nepal discussed the use of alternative energies that emit less pollution in the air than carbon-based fuels at a seminar organised.
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Drive against diesel
People in Nepal wage a war against polluting diesel three wheelers
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Experts exploring ways to prevent air pollution in South Asian cities
Experts from South Asia region have coverged in the Nepal for ran annual network meeting on Male Declaration on Control and Prevention of Air Pollution and its likely transboundary effects for South
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'GREEN' GOAL
India, Pakistan and Nepal have called for regional cooperation to tackle environmental problems in South Asia. The subcontinent in South Asia is bestowed with immense natural resources, vast fertile
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Children on the front line
<p><img alt="" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/media/iep/homepage/climate_children.jpg" style="width: 270px; height: 190px; margin: 8px; float: left;" />This new report published by the the
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Air pollution
With very few non-polluting micro-buses plying on the roads of Kathmandu, the Nepal government might soon review its pro-environmental decisions. Sources at the ministry of population and
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CSE workshop: 'Our Right of Way: Walk and Cycle'
CSE’s clean air and urban mobility team organized a workshop ‘Our Right of Way: Walk and Cycle’ in New Delhi on March 22, 2012. This discussion forum included participants from all the key organsiations,
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South Asia
Pak pollution check The Rawalpindi city district government in Pakistan recently launched a plan to shift industrial units in Rawalpindi city to its suburbs to reduce pollution in the city. The plan