India

For a decade, Delhi has regularly received the dishonourable title of being the world’s most polluted city. The 30 million people living ...

More than $1 billion in government funding has been allocated to cities, but just 60% has been spent. Only 16 cities have achieved the targeted pollution cuts. What can be done?

The severe air pollution events in Delhi due to sharp economic and population growth have been widely reported.

In July, the Indian government proposed fuel consumption standards for heavy-duty vehicles in a draft notification issued by the road transport ministry.

Authorities in the Indian capital New Delhi declared a public health emergency on 1 November and closed schools and all construction activity for a week ...

The Norilsk smelter complex in Russia continues to be the largest sulphur dioxide emission hotspot in the world.

India’s polluted air was responsible for 1.24 million premature deaths in 2017, or 12.5 per cent of total deaths recorded that year, according to a study published in Lancet Planetary Health.

A new report by UN Environment identifies and proposes 25 clean air measures that can positively impact human health, crop yields, climate change and socio-economic development ...

“Solar and/or wind are now the cheapest new source of generation in all major economies except Japan, ” according to a new Bloomberg study reported by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis ...

The first global, long-term satellite study of airborne ammonia gas has revealed increasing levels of the pollutant over four of the world’s most productive agricultural regions.

Work has frozen at over 100 projects in China and India, in addition there is a 62 per cent decline in global construction starts and a 48 per cent drop in pre-construction activity.

International trade has moved more than 750,000 air pollution-related deaths from regions that import goods to those that produce them.