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Climate Hazard Vulnerability Assessment Steps

Download this pdf that shows the steps described in the report Climate Resilient Cities: Assessing Differential Vulnerability to Climate Hazards in Urban India The information can also be accessed through the online course available on The City Fix Learn, titled “Building Climate-Resilient Cities: A Practical Guide to Hazard & Vulnerability Assessment.”

Equitable Transportation and Accessible Neighborhoods

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Audio Summaries of WRI Publications

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Climate Finance for Transportation Toolkit (Course and Catalogue)

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WRI/Yale Prize For Cities Learning Event 2024

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Cities All Staff Meeting Overview September 2024

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CanAIRy Learn: Tech Talk 4 | Communicating the Risks of Air Pollution to the Public

This webinar will discuss the use of air quality forecasts for the development of effective health risk warnings and communications for both individuals and health sector decision-makers. The event will share experiences of different strategies for communication and dissemination of air quality forecasts and their impact on the population.

Prize for Cities Learning Event WRI/Yale

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Cities All Staff Meeting Overview March 2024

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CanAIRy Learn: Tech Talk 3 | Performance Evaluation for CanAIRy Alert’s Forecasting Model

The third technical talk of the Air Quality Community of Practice, CanAIRy Learn, discussed the importance of conducting performance evaluations of air quality forecasting models. WRI Mexico moderated this session in coordination with WRI Africa, where representatives from Latin American and African countries also shared their experiences in the use and evaluation of CanAIRy Alert...

Integrated Urban Planning in the Global South

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Increasing Awareness Through Ambient Air Quality: Data Analysis, Interpretation, and Visualization

The primary goal for this product is to enhance public awareness and understanding of ambient air quality through effective data sharing, publication, and communication. By leveraging insights from experts and representatives of major cities, we aim to provide actionable strategies for creating cleaner, healthier urban environments. We hope this product achieves increased public engagement and...

Theory of Change Interactive Course

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Cities All Staff Meeting May 2024 – Highlight WRI Colombia

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Deep Dive Retreat Content

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CanAIRy Learn: Tech Talk 2 | Empowering African Cities with Air Quality Forecasting

The second technical talk of the Air Quality Community of Practice, CanAIRy Learn, focused on enhancing the capabilities of African cities to use CanAIRy Alert’s air quality forecasting tool to help air quality decision makers protect their citizens. This session was moderated by WRI Africa; speakers delved into CanAIRy Alert’s tool, low-cost sensor data collection...

Facilitation Aids and Techniques

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Facilitation Skills Training Overview Online Course

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2024 Den Haag Planning Retreat Content

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Deep Dive Overview Update 2023

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November 2023 WRI Network Project Updates

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High Air Pollution Episode in Cities: Understanding through Data and Tools

The insights from the First Session of the Southeast Asia Air Quality Community of Practice, which focused on expert discussions regarding strategies to combat urban pollution through the use of data and technological tools, will provide real-life experiences and a data-driven strategy to tackle air pollution in cities. The experiences to increase air quality focused...

Air Quality Monitoring Equipment Workshop and Sharing Session (English Version)

The recording of this sharing session aims to inform the targeted audiences about strategies and technicalities to: 1) Tackle the challenge of air pollution with effective monitoring strategies. 2) Transfer practical knowledge about monitoring ambient air quality, particularly PM2.5 and Black Carbon. 3) Provide practical insights into the latest advancements in air quality monitoring.

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Urban Areas for Better Air in Bogotá

The session aims to create synergy between the Southeast Asia Air Quality Community of Practice (SEA-CoP) and the Clean Air Catalyst to promote the importance of comprehensive strategies such as ZUMAs, which seek to improve air quality in areas with high pollution and socioeconomic vulnerability through actions that reduce pollutant emissions and their subsequent impact...

Recap CanAiry Alert Training

Recap | Second Stage: CanAIRy Alert Training

The CanAIRy Alert project, with support from the Clean Air Fund, held a “CanAIRy Alert Training: Tools for Air Quality Management and Capacity Building” to train air quality practitioners from Global South cities on two air quality management tools enabling Air Quality Forecasting and Pollution Insights, using remote sensing products.  The Air Quality Communities of...

Second stage: 2nd tech talk | Operationalizing air quality forecasts in the city context

Second stage: 2nd tech talk | Operationalizing air quality forecasts in the city context

The second tech talk of the second stage of the Air Quality Community of Practice of Latin American and African cities (part of the CanAIRy Alert project), sought to create a shared understanding of the challenges of operating an #AirQuality forecasting system in cities in the Global South.

Second stage: 3rd tech talk | Systematic development of integrated emissions inventories

CanAIRy Learn. Air Quality Community of Practice: Second stage: 3rd tech talk | Systematic development of integrated emissions inventories

CanAIRy Learn. Air Quality Community of Practice

CanAIRy Learn Air Quality Community of Practice Second stage: 1st tech talk | Air Quality Data: quality assurance and quality control

The second stage of the Air Quality Community of Practice of Latin American and African cities as part of the CanAIRy Alert project started in March 2023. At the first meeting, guidelines were shared on the development of acceptability and conformity criteria for #AirQuality data, as well as useful tools for validating these to produce...

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Air Quality – CanAIRy Learn 1 tech talk CanAIRy Alert Forecast Overview

The first technical talk of CanAIRy Learn: Air Quality Community of Practice was moderated by Ana Cecilia Perales (Technical-Administrative Coordinator for Air Quality, WRI Mexico). In this session, the new stage of the project and its website: canairyalert.org were presented, as well as George Mwaniki (Air Quality Leader, WRI Africa) talked about the two key...

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Successful Efforts led by REHOUSE Partners

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Stakeholder Engagement and Governance Management Structures Course

Stakeholder Engagement and Governance Management Structures

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Using Data in Urban Planning Course

Using Data in Urban Planning

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Framing the opportunity

Framing the Opportunity

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Seven Transformations for More Equitable and Sustainable Cities

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South-South Dialogue

South-South Dialogue

The closing of the first stage of the Air Quality Community of Practice of LATAM and African cities was moderated by Daniel Ibañez (Digital Marketing and Communication Specialist, WRI). During the meeting, high-level authorities and project members shared their experiences, lessons learned and needs from the first seven technical sessions. We also learned about some...

Seventh Technical Session | Use of satellite products to identify and quantify emissions

Seventh Technical Session | Use of satellite products to identify and quantify emissions

The seventh and final technical seminar of the Air Quality Community of Practice for LATAM and African cities was moderated by Ana Cecilia Perales (Air Quality Coordinator, WRI Mexico). This session explored satellite measurements as a method of providing complementary air quality information. Information from satellite products opens the opportunity to visualize the spatial distribution...

Third Technical Session | Towards an integrated vision of climate and clean air action plans: perspectives and experiences

Third Technical Session | Towards an integrated vision of climate and clean air action plans: perspectives and experiences

The third technical session of the Air Quality community of practice was held last April 26th, 2022, and was moderated by the WRI Mexico Air Quality Coordinator, Ana Cecilia Perales. Its objective was to share with the Community of practice the perspectives and experiences in the design and implementation of integrated action plans for air...

Sixth Technical Session | Evaluating air quality impact: indicators to assess policy interventions

Sixth Technical Session | Evaluating air quality impact: indicators to assess policy interventions

The objective of the sixth technical seminar of the Air Quality Community of Practice of LATAM and African cities was to address the importance and the need to design and develop impact indicators (especially those related to air quality and public health) to assess the effectiveness of different environmental and/or urban interventions and policies. Danielle...

Second Technical Session | Reference monitoring networks vs. Hyperlocal monitoring networks: accreditation process by national entities

Second Technical Session | Reference monitoring networks vs. Hyperlocal monitoring networks: accreditation process by national entities

The second technical session of the Air Quality Community of Practice took place this Tuesday, April 5, 2022, via Zoom Webinar. It was moderated by Ana Cecilia Perales, WRI Mexico Air Quality Coordinator, and the objective was to share with the community what the differences are, in terms of quality and assurance of air quality...

Fourth Technical Session | Participatory science: promoting actions for clean air

Fourth Technical Session | Participatory science: promoting actions for clean air

The fourth technical seminar of the Air Quality community of practice of cities in LATAM and Africa was moderated by Ana Cecilia Perales (Air Quality Coordinator, WRI Mexico) and Itzá Castañeda (Director of Social Equity, WRI Mexico). The objective of this session was: to share with the members of the Community the value of promoting...

First Technical Session | Useful air quality forecasts for cities: performance assessment

First Technical Session | Useful air quality forecasts for cities: performance assessment

The Air Quality Community of Practice of latam and African cities aims to share best practices for the generation and use of data and tools for air quality management and climate change mitigation through a community of practice with authorities in Latin America and Africa for city authorities to design and implement comprehensive solutions, based on previous...

Fifth Technical Session | Generation and visualization of air quality data

Fifth Technical Session | Generation and visualization of air quality data

The fifth technical seminar of the Community of Practice on air quality of cities in LATAM and Africa, aimed to share with the members of the Community of Practice, the relevance of the generation, visualization and use of air quality data through of Resource Watch and MapBuilder. In addition, experiences and challenges in the use...

Theory of Change

Theory of Change

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Strategy Development

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Proposal Development

Proposal Development

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Launch of Canairy Alert, a new program to support cities in Africa to improve their air quality forecasting and research on pollution sources

Launch of Canairy Alert, a new program to support cities in Africa to improve their air quality forecasting and research on pollution sources

Air pollution remains a major environmental challenge with significant impacts on human health and ecosystems. Cities in the low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have recognized this challenge and are prepared to take policy and regulatory actions to address it. However, these cities experience several challenges, including limited air quality monitoring data, low technical capacity to...

Serie: Clean Fleets, Clean Cities. Casos de éxito en la implementación y transición a flotas limpias

Serie: Clean Fleets, Clean Cities. Casos de éxito en la implementación y transición a flotas limpias

Este segundo panel tuvo como objetivo ofrecer desde la perspectiva de expertos en la aplicación de tecnologías para la reducción de emisiones de vehículos de carga, argumentos sólidos para derribar mitos sobre la inviabilidad de su uso y sobre y la implementación de estrategias de reemplazo y renovación de flotas a vehículos de bajas o...

Presentation of the Participatory Integrated Emissions Inventory of the AMG (English version)

Presentation of the Participatory Integrated Emissions Inventory of the AMG (English version)

This webinar aims to present the Inventory, the first integrated inventory of emissions of criteria pollutants and greenhouse gases and compounds for the nine municipalities that make up the AMG, base year 2018. This inventory is the result of collaboration between the air quality area of the World Resources Institute Mexico (WRI Mexico) and the...

Participatory science for clean air in Mexican cities (English version)

Participatory science for clean air in Mexican cities (English version)

Participatory science is a collaborative and co-creative process that involves different actors such as academia, government, civil society, scientists, among others. In the development of research and data collection with a common purpose, in this case for the topic of air quality. This Webinar presents the participatory science process during the air pollutant measurement campaigns...

Findings and Lessons Learned from the CityAQ Project, Air Quality Forecasts (English version)

Findings and Lessons Learned from the CityAQ Project, Air Quality Forecasts (English version)

The World Resources Institute Mexico (WRI) in collaboration with the Office of Assimilation and Global Modeling of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (GMAO-NASA), invite you to the virtual seminar Findings and lessons learned from the project CityAQ, air quality forecasts, which will address the CityAQ project, which provided a reliable air quality forecast in...

Future Urban Mobility Calculator: An electric mobility infrastructure tool

Future Urban Mobility Calculator: An electric mobility infrastructure tool

The Future Mobility Calculator (FMC) is an Excel-based tool that helps cities make informed decisions about the future of their mobility and energy systems. Using city-specific demographic data, mobility scenarios, charging patterns and infrastructure, and cost data, the FMC estimates the quantity and cost of infrastructure required as well as related emission reduction and social...

The Costs and Benefits Appraisal Tool for Transit Buses

The Costs and Benefits Appraisal Tool for Transit Buses

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Overcoming Barriers to Financing Sustainable Urban Infrastructure [Draft Version]

Overcoming Barriers to Financing Sustainable Urban Infrastructure [Draft Version]

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Introduction to Communications at WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

Introduction to Communications at WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

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An Introduction to Research at WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

An Introduction to Research at WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

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Urban Forests for Healthier Cities: Policy, Planning, Regulations, and Institutional Arrangements

Urban Forests for Healthier Cities: Policy, Planning, Regulations, and Institutional Arrangements

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Social Equity Considerations for Cities' Decision Making Related to Inner, Nearby, and Faraway Forests

Social Equity Considerations for Cities’ Decision Making Related to Inner, Nearby, and Faraway Forests

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TOD & Road Safety / Session 4 / Financing & Implementing Road Safety in TOD

TOD & Road Safety / Session 4 / Financing & Implementing Road Safety in TOD

This session is the fourth and final session in a four-part workshop series highlighting the importance of road safety, in Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) projects, through the Five-Step process and Safe System approach. This session talks about the last two stages of the TOD framework from a road safety perspective – how to Finance and Implement...

TOD & Road Safety / Session 2 / Assessing and Enabling Road Safety for TOD

TOD & Road Safety / Session 2 / Assessing and Enabling Road Safety for TOD

This workshop is the second session in a four-part series highlighting the importance of road safety, in Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) projects, through the Five-Step process and Safe System approach. This session talks about the first two stages of the TOD framework – Assess and Enable from a road safety perspective. Road crash assessment of a...

Discussion on Depot and Charging Management for Electric Buses

Discussion on Depot and Charging Management for Electric Buses

Ensuring daily operations, meeting growing passenger demands on quality and reducing costs – these are the challenges transport companies face, every single day. Fulfilling these requirements begins at the depots, where buses are prepared for daily operation, cleaned, refuelled, maintained and repaired. The ‘Discussion on Depot and Charging Management for Electric Buses’ webinar will see...

EV Connect

EV Connect

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Electric Vehicle Safety: Thermal Runaway, Fire Characteristics & Suppression in Lithium-ion Batteries

In this month’s webinar, we will discuss the nature of thermal runaway and the variations observed with different factors such as configuration, environment, interconnects and state of charge. For understanding this critical subject better, Dr. Judy Jeevarajan from UL will discuss the fire characteristics observed with two different li-ion cathode chemistries. The results from cell, module and battery-level tests...

TOD & Road Safety / Session 3 / Planning and Designing Road Safety Measures in TOD

TOD & Road Safety / Session 3 / Planning and Designing Road Safety Measures in TOD

This session is the third in a four-part workshop series highlighting the importance of road safety, in Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) projects, through the Five-Step process and Safe System approach. It looks at the Plan & Design stage of the TOD framework. This session looks at providing safe and efficient linkages, between the developments within the TOD,...

Transit Oriented Development

TOD & Road Safety / Session 1

This workshop is first in a four-part series highlighting the importance of road safety, in Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) projects, through the Five-Step process and Safe System approach. This session introduces the need for road safety in high density areas, such as a TOD, including the requirement for safe access to mass transit stations using the principles...

Enabling Safe Access to Mass Transit (SAM) Toolkit

Enabling Safe Access to Mass Transit (SAM) Toolkit

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Good Practice Note: Integration of Road Safety Considerations in Transit-Oriented Development projects

Good Practice Note: Integration of Road Safety Considerations in Transit-Oriented Development projects

This note has been prepared by WRI India as part of the assignment: “Integration of Road Safety Considerations in Transit-Oriented Development Projects” for the World Bank with funding from UK AID, through the Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF).

Reducing Demand for Vehicle Trips in Cities

Reducing Demand for Vehicle Trips in Cities

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Integration of Road Safety Considerations in Transit-Oriented Development Projects

Integration of Road Safety Considerations in Transit-Oriented Development Projects

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Toward Efficient Informal Urban Transit

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How Cities can Engage Organizations in Improving Urban Mobility

How Cities can Engage Organizations in Improving Urban Mobility

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City Climate Action Planning

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BETA: Social Equity Considerations for Cities' Decision Making Related to Inner, Nearby, and Faraway Forests

BETA: Social Equity Considerations for Cities’ Decision Making Related to Inner, Nearby, and Faraway Forests

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Battery Monitoring – Importance and Solutions for Public Transport Companies

Battery Monitoring – Importance and Solutions for Public Transport Companies

We all know how much effort has been put into bringing electric buses to India. As a result, we are slowly starting to see positive changes as there are many electric buses running in different Indian cities and states with their own special business model, battery and technology characteristics, operators, etc. Now that electric buses are on the roads,...

AQ Tech Talk: Forecast and Impacts of Saharan Dust

AQ Tech Talk: Forecast and Impacts of Saharan Dust

Every year in the summer, dust particulates from the Saharan Desert are suspended by strong winds and carried across the Atlantic Ocean to the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Commonly known as the Saharan Dust Storm (or Saharan Air Layer), this Trans-Atlantic event brings unhealthy levels of PM 2.5 and PM 10 to some cities, changes to...

Broadly Beneficial Clean-Energy Planning Session 3: Turning Scenarios into Policies

Broadly Beneficial Clean-Energy Planning Session 3: Turning Scenarios into Policies

Broadly Beneficial Clean-Energy Planning is a series of three webinars examining data-backed scenario planning as a tool for structuring stakeholder-centered planning for clean energy policies and programs in cities. Produced and presented by WRI, Greenlink Analytics, and USDN in spring 2020, the series is part of a larger training program which includes provision of data and...

Broadly Beneficial Clean-Energy Planning Session 2: Defining and Modeling Scenarios

Broadly Beneficial Clean-Energy Planning Session 2: Defining and Modeling Scenarios

Broadly Beneficial Clean-Energy Planning is a series of three webinars examining data-backed scenario planning as a tool for structuring stakeholder-centered planning for clean energy policies and programs in cities. Produced and presented by WRI, Greenlink Analytics, and USDN in spring 2020, the series is part of a larger training program which includes provision of data and...

Broadly Beneficial Clean-Energy Planning Session 1: Stage-setting and Baseline Data

Broadly Beneficial Clean-Energy Planning Session 1: Stage-setting and Baseline Data

Broadly Beneficial Clean-Energy Planning is a series of three webinars examining data-backed scenario planning as a tool for structuring stakeholder-centered planning for clean energy policies and programs in cities. Produced and presented by WRI, Greenlink Analytics, and USDN in spring 2020, the series is part of a larger training program which includes provision of data and...

Towards a More Equal City: World Resources Report Update and COVID-19 Connections

Towards a More Equal City: World Resources Report Update and COVID-19 Connections

The coronavirus pandemic has brought into sharp focus many underlying economic and social fragilities in urban areas. This kind of global crisis exacerbates existing fault lines in cities especially in terms of inequalities in access to core services. In the face of these challenges, how can growing cities in the global south drive greater equity,...

Technology, financing and commercialization aspects: Lessons from Indian EV Start-up

Technology, financing and commercialization aspects: Lessons from Indian EV Start-up

We all know how first and last mile connectivity can be a hindrance for the seamless usage of a perfect public transportation system in cities across the world. Not everyone has the luxury to live in compact cities where workplaces, recreational and institutional places are within walking distances from their homes! In these cases, the...

AQ Tech Talk: Developing City-Level Air Quality Forecasting, The Mexico City Experience

AQ Tech Talk: Developing City-Level Air Quality Forecasting, The Mexico City Experience

Many of the places with the highest level of pollution have the least information to work with to know their air quality and manage it accordingly. While there is a growing number of globally available, publicly funded, open resources for tracking, forecasting, and attributing pollution, these resources are often spatially coarse and rarely incorporate the...

Lithium-ion Battery Hazards and Design Challenges for the Electric Vehicle Sector

Lithium-ion Battery Hazards and Design Challenges for the Electric Vehicle Sector

India is witnessing significant growth in the e-mobility and renewable energy sectors. Batteries are an integral part of these sectors as they provide the energy and power for these applications as well as a wide variety of accessories linked to these sectors. Recently, we have seen major traction of electric vehicles (EVs) in the world...

Build Back Better: Cities at the Frontlines of COVID-19 Impact and Recovery

Build Back Better: Cities at the Frontlines of COVID-19 Impact and Recovery

Cities are not only at the forefront of the COVID-19 pandemic, they are also likely to see lasting changes from it, from their physical form to economic and community structure. Cities are struggling to provide adequate access to water and sanitation for handwashing needs, healthcare services are being overwhelmed, and public transit systems are drastically...

AQ Tech Talk: Air Pollution Measurement & Mitigation for the Transport Sector

AQ Tech Talk: Air Pollution Measurement & Mitigation for the Transport Sector

The transport sector significantly impacts air quality at the local, urban, and global scales. In many cities throughout the world, transportation sources can contribute over half of particulate matter and nitrogen oxide emissions in addition to hundreds of other toxic compounds that negatively impact human health and the environment. Numerous studies indicate that people who...

Disruptive Potential of Fuel Cell Technology in the Indian Transportation Sector

Disruptive Potential of Fuel Cell Technology in the Indian Transportation Sector

Recent growth in EV adoption has raised the question of how EVs affect the current ecosystem – including the market, R&D, policies, etc. – and discussion around “Disruptive Technologies”. A disruptive technology is one that displaces an established technology and shakes up the industry, or a ground-breaking product that creates a completely new industry. What are these...

AQ Tech Talk: Towards Cleaner Air in Surat, India

AQ Tech Talk: Towards Cleaner Air in Surat, India

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AQ Tech Talk: Low-Cost Sensor Pilot and Citizen Engagement in Brasil

AQ Tech Talk: Low-Cost Sensor Pilot and Citizen Engagement in Brasil

Car-Free Friday (CFF) is an ongoing initiative in the city of Sao Paulo, Brasil that restricts the use of single occupancy vehicles, heavy-duty trucks, and motorcycles from certain streets on the last Friday of every month. It is critical to measure the variety of impacts, including air quality, of these initiatives because it can help...

Electricity Pricing and Charging Strategy for Electric Vehicles in India

Electricity Pricing and Charging Strategy for Electric Vehicles in India

Recent growth in Electric Vehicle (EV) adoption has raised the question of how EVs affect the electricity rates paid by all households, including those that do not own EVs. This is an important equity question that should be analyzed when determining the role that electric utilities should play in supporting the transition to EVs. By...

Financing Sustainable Urban Development: An Introduction

Financing Sustainable Urban Development: An Introduction

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Understanding Batteries for Electric Vehicles (EV): Technology and Performance Aspects

Understanding Batteries for Electric Vehicles (EV): Technology and Performance Aspects

To encourage mass adoption of electric mobility in Indian cities and see the expected positive impacts, it is very important to understand the right kind of technology for electric vehicle batteries. Batteries are the “heart” of these vehicles. The general public has a lot of questions and anxieties that keep them from fully trusting this...

Testing and Accreditation Status of Electric Vehicles in India

With electric mobility emerging as one of the most prominent measures to tackle climate change, it is important to keep in mind the special characteristics of the Indian context. Understanding the kind of testing and accreditation measures required to ensure maximum efficiency of the product can be tricky when it comes to matters like battery...

Sustainable Financial Mechanisms and Innovative Business Models for Electric vehicles in India

Sustainable Financial Mechanisms and Innovative Business Models for Electric vehicles in India

Although there have been many efforts to promote electrification of transport in India, there are still major anxieties that act as a “speed-breaker” to adoption of this new technology. The most prominent anxiety is related to the high capital costs of electric vehicles, as a result of which many people are still quite reluctant to even think about investing in them. This...

Standardizing Charging of Electric Vehicles: Benefits, Opportunities and Challenges

Standardizing Charging of Electric Vehicles: Benefits, Opportunities and Challenges

India is moving rapidly towards cleaner transportation with the growth in electric mobility. The Government has introduced suitable policy frameworks to promote electric vehicles, with significant research and development efforts to establish EV components and sub-systems considering Indian tropical conditions. One topic that needs focused attention is the need for standardization in charging infrastructure for...

Retrofitting for Electric Vehicles: Status, Potential and Challenges

Retrofitting for Electric Vehicles: Status, Potential and Challenges

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Impact of Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging on the Local Grid

Impact of Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging on the Local Grid

The transport sector is the largest user of oil and second largest source of CO2 emissions world-wide. The Indian transportation sector accounts for one-third of the total crude oil consumed in the country, with 80% consumed by road transportation alone. It also accounts for around 11% of total CO2 emissions from fuel combustion. India is...

Corporate Adoption of Electric Vehicles in India

Corporate Adoption of Electric Vehicles in India

For the benefits of electric vehicles to be utilized to the maximum level, they should be adopted within all segments of society. Hence it is important to see electric mobility from a holistic point of view and consider how we can involve private parties in this scenario. How do corporate companies procure electric vehicles? What could be an...

Circular Economy Strategy for Batteries in India

Circular Economy Strategy for Batteries in India

Re-use and recycling of batteries are a key component of the circular economy strategy for the batteries from electric vehicles, stationary and other applications. With the increasing push for battery manufacturing to cater to the growing demand from the renewable and electric vehicle sector, it is important to adopt the circular economy strategy for energy...

Toxic Air: The Challenge of Ozone Pollution

Toxic Air: The Challenge of Ozone Pollution

Surface ozone is a dangerous climate and air pollutant, damaging human health, ecosystems, crops and other plants, and contributing significantly to global warming. Ozone is created when gases released by cars, electric utilities, landfills, biomass fires, agriculture and industrial processes, among other sources, react with each other and sunlight. In 2017 alone, it contributed to...

OpenAQ: Fighting Air Inequality through Open Data and Community

OpenAQ: Fighting Air Inequality through Open Data and Community

Air pollution, responsible for more deaths each year than HIV/AIDS and malaria, combined, is a global public health crisis. Yet many scientific questions, including those directly relevant for policy, remain unanswered when it comes to the impact of air pollution on health in highly polluted environments. Often, specific solutions to improving air quality are local...

Introduction to City Climate Action Planning

Introduction to City Climate Action Planning

A climate action plan creates a framework for cities to reduce or “mitigate” greenhouse gas emissions in coordination with other city plans for development, transport, health, and other issues. When successfully orchestrated, a climate action plan can create a shared vision around a climate goal and can align climate policies with social and economic development...

Bringing Sustainable Development Considerations to Renewable Energy Decision-Making

Bringing Sustainable Development Considerations to Renewable Energy Decision-Making

Financial analyses, which consider financial costs and income, have typically informed energy-related decision-making and investment planning. Economic analyses, however, can also include social, economic and environmental costs and benefits to society, which are especially critical in energy policymaking and planning. To support systematic consideration of such impacts in decision-making, WRI’s ongoing research draws on the Initiative for Climate Action...