This overview sets the scene for the various modules in the Renewables 2024 Global Status Report Collection. It provides high-level trends on the status of renewables in the wider fossil fuel-dominated energy system in the context of global challenges such as climate change, development goals and the geopolitical landscape. Urgent …
Bengaluru, an important metropolitan city and Silicon Valley of India, also suffers from bad air quality and as reported, nearly 36 per cent of children suffer from weak lungs. This has implications for the economy of the city in two ways. First, the children are weak and therefore less productive …
Moving to tighten norms for emissions of major pollutants by coal-based power plants in the country, the environment ministry has proposed a fresh standard for old and new units seeking them to substantially cut down release of health-damaging particulate matter (PM). Since the impact of pollution from coal-based power generation …
Carmakers’ claims about their vehicles’ exhaust emissions — long criticised as wildly optimistic — are set to come under fresh scrutiny after the EU agreed to implement “real-world” testing for diesel cars. In a radical shift, Brussels said it would make the EU the world’s first region to adopt on-the-road …
Weak draft EU rules for coal plant emissions could result in 71,000 deaths and €52bn (£37bn) of health costs across Europe in the decade to come, according to new research published on Wednesday. A Greenpeace investigation earlier this year found that the coal standards would be more lax than those …
While pollutant counts fall in Pearl River Delta, concentration of harmful gas increases: report Air quality over the Pearl River Delta region improved last year as levels of three major pollutants dipped - but one worrying pattern was a worsening of the harmful ozone pollutant, an official report showed. The …
Supreme Court Tells British Govt To Meet EU Norms By End Of This Year London and Delhi may be poles apart in character, but they have a common problem-deteriorating air quality . At a time when National Green Tribunal has directed the Centre, Delhi and other state governments, to ban …
ENVIRONMENTAL authorities are coming up with new policies in the city as they step up the fight against polluting firms. Companies which fail to meet the waste treatment standards will now be forced to use third-party agencies to process the polluting discharges, which can work out expensive. “Third-party companies are …
The motor industry has defended diesel vehicles claiming they are less polluting than ever, amid fears the government will order a clampdown to meet EU pollution targets. Yesterday the Supreme Court ruled that the Department for the Environment must draw up urgent plans to cut levels of nitrogen dioxide in …
The supreme court has ordered the government to make plans for tackling the UK’s air pollution problem, which has been in breach of EU limits for years and is linked to thousands of premature deaths each year. London and several other British cities have failed to meet EU standards on …
New findings published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives show that exposure to high levels of pollution can adversely affect fetal growth and development. Researchers at the University of Rochester discovered that women who were pregnant during the 2008 Beijing Olympics gave birth to healthier weight children due to a …
The financial cost of air pollution in Europe stands at more than $1.6tn (£1.5tn) a year, a study by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has found, equating to about a tenth of the GDP of the continent. While air pollution has long been known to be a major environmental burden, …
Using the natural experiment of air pollution declines during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the researchers evaluated whether having specific months of pregnancy (i.e. 1st…8th) during the 2008 Olympic period was associated with larger birth weights, compared with pregnancies during the same dates in 2007 or 2009.
The Supreme Court has been asked to issue a legal order forcing the British government to comply with European air quality limits intended to curb the 29,000 deaths that are caused by pollution every year. A 2015 deadline set by the EU to reduce concentrations of nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulphur …
Exposure to traffic-related air pollutants is an important public health issue. Here, the researchers present a systematic review and meta-analysis of research examining the relationship of measures of nitrogen oxides and of various measures of traffic related air pollution exposure with lung cancer.
Banning old diesel vehicles may not be enough to address severe air pollution in Delhi. Other countries have been imposing higher taxes, excise duties and registration costs to discourage people from buying diesel vehicles. They have also introduced low-sulphur diesel to clean up vehicle emissions. Experts say National Green Tribunal's …
Pollution levels will peak on Friday, particularly in areas of south-east England where the government are advising the entire population to reduce physical activity Harmful levels of air pollution will accompany the warm weather expected across the UK on Friday, triggering government warnings that people with health problems should reduce …
Forget humans, the dirty air in the Capital is now taking a toll on even the iconic structures here. The architectural blossoming of the lotus at the Baha’i House of Worship in Kalkaji could be withering away under the expanding effects of pollution. A petition filed in the National Green …
India does not have a mechanism to reduce peak pollution The new National Air Quality Index launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday, gives current as well as 24-hour average data on particulate matter – PM2.5 or very fine particles smaller than 2.5 micrometres in diameter, and PM 10 …
The death toll from air pollution, usually put at around 29,000 a year in the UK, could be substantially higher because the lethal effect of nitrogen dioxide (NO2), emitted during fossil fuel burning, has not been taken into account, experts believe. Until now, only deaths linked to fine particles, less …
Since the US Clean Air Act’s passage in the 1970s, there have been a steady stream of reports correlating exposure to air pollutants with a variety of health impacts. But in the early days, much of that information was too rudimentary to be of much use. Monitoring technology has improved …
