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Yes, Air Pollution Kills. But How Do We Tackle It?

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The Transformative Impact of Research on Government Decision-making

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  • Insight • In the News • April 3, 2025

    Delhi Budget 2025: A smart leap towards cleaner urban mobility

    via The New Indian Express

    EPIC India’s Project Manager, Kratika Narain shares her thoughts on the Delhi government’s 2025 budget which significantly boosts public transport funding, focusing on expanding electric buses and metro… Learn More >

  • Insight • In the News • January 31, 2025

    The Way Forward On Urban Waste

    via Outlook India

    EPIC India’s Swarna Dutt and Suyash Nandgaonkar highlight how rapid urban growth in India has outpaced infrastructure development, creating significant challenges for waste management systems.

  • Insight • In the News • November 25, 2024

    Cautious ambition: India’s progress on meeting its international climate commitments

    via ET Energy World

    EPIC India’s Executive Director, Kaushik Deb, and Meera Gopal from the Asia Society Policy Institute discuss India’s climate commitments, evaluating the country’s progress on its various climate goals… Learn More >

  • Impact • December 1, 2023

    The Transformative Impact of Research on Government Decision-making

    In the first weeks of November 2023,  to tackle issues of poor air quality, the Delhi Government proposed implementing an odd-even vehicle rationing scheme, pending Supreme Court approval…. Learn More >

  • Insight • In the News • October 6, 2023

    Opinion | Looking for hope on the climate? Look here.

    via Washington Post

    Michael Greenstone and co-authors found that industrial plants that participated in the market reduced emissions by 20 to 30 percent.

  • Insight • In the News • Opinion • July 8, 2023

    Yes, Air Pollution Kills. But How Do We Tackle It?

    via India Times

    Aarsh Batra, Research Associate for AQLI shares his opinion on the global air pollution crisis and what can be done to tackle it.

  • Impact • July 20, 2022

    Improving Plant Audits Reduces Pollution 28 Percent

    In 2013, regulators in Gujarat, one of India’s fastest-growing and wealthiest—but also most polluted—states, faced a confounding problem. India had implemented relatively strong legal limits on industrial pollution,… Learn More >

  • Insight • June 17, 2022

    The role of regulatory innovation in reversing India’s environmental degradation

    via Ideas For India

    Anant Sudarshan examines the broader economic and developmental costs of environmental degradation. Based on the literature and his own empirical work he argues that regulatory stagnation has made… Learn More >

  • Insight • November 3, 2021

    In Delhi’s class pyramid, air pollution is a great leveller

    via Hindustan Times

    Our Director Prof Michael Greenstone joins Ken Lee and Harshil Sahai in sharing insights from their recent research that found low awareness of indoor air pollution in Delhi.

  • Insight • June 23, 2021

    Effect of high temperatures, low productivity on India’s growth prospects

    via Hindustan Times

    Our South Asia Director Anant Sudarshan writes an opinion piece in Hindustan Times focusing on his new research paper that talks about how high temperatures consistently hurt economic… Learn More >

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