Air Pollution

CSE welcomes Delhi government’s move to make diesel cars dearer

Decision will cut toxic risk from diesel cars and protect public health

Kolkata City Dialogue on Air Quality and Transportation Challenge: An Agenda For Action

A Briefing Note

Serious concern over worsening air quality and traffic congestion in Kolkata Ongoing action must gather momentum, says CSE

Dhaka – Delhi: Greasy tale of fuel pricing

It was a proud moment and a powerful statement when Dhaka rolled out a bedecked iconic cycle rickshaw on the opening day of the World Cup cricket. This is perhaps the only capital city in our region that can boast of zero emission areas with majority walking or on cycle rickshaws. Yet cars, only 10 per cent of all wheeled trips, bring this city to a grinding halt daily – traffic jams are as bad as we see in the worst of times in Delhi. Jam-struck on Dhaka’s roads, I understood, what warped fuel pricing can do to our cities of South Asia, and, wondered why our finance minister has not figured that out yet?

Monographs on vehicular pollution and mobility issues

• Footfalls: Obstacle Course to Livable Cities (.pdf)
• Choc-A-Block: Parking Measures to Address Mobility Crisis (.pdf)
• Avert the great guzzle: Fuel Economy Regulations: Setting the Principles Right (.pdf)
• Fuel adulteration report (.pdf)

Solutions to pollution and mobility crisis: learning from each other: September 21 - 22, 2010

List of participants

Dirty air and kitchen politics

Our Moms and Grannies will rebel. They have just about upgraded their kitchens from smoky chulhas to clean lpg burners. 

Snakes and ladder on diesel taxes

It was our usual pre-budget musings -- Will you… Wont you…. free up the prices of transport fuels, or make diesel cars pay the same lifetime fuel excise as petrol cars.

Monographs

Footfalls: Obstacle Course to Livable Cities			Choc-A-Block: Parking Measures to Address Mobility Crisis
Avert the great guzzle: Fuel Economy Regulations: Setting the Principles Right			A report on the independent inspection of fuel quality at fuel dispensing stations, oil depots and tank lorries
Safety of CNG Buses in Delhi: Findings and Recommendations			The smokescreen of lies: Myths and facts about CNG
Engines of the Devil

Why authorize it?

If it’s broken, don’t fix it. That’s the new motto of the government: forget it and build another. Do not sort out details. I am talking of what the government believes will form the spine of regulation in future.

The flavour of the day is ‘authorities’: separate, independent institutions not bound by departmental morass, not tied down by procedures or personnel—the bane supposedly of any implementation or regulatory initiative. I think it is time to review this gelato of current governance.

About Air Pollution

What happened to our right to CLEAN AIR!

Our campaign started with blowing the lid on smog and exposing the smogmakers in a city where a person dies every hour due to air pollution. The campaign carries on to clean the air of noxious pollutants to make breathing easier for all.