Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Tuesday flagged off 150 mobile smog guns from the Delhi Secretariat. Two anti-smog-guns are deployed in each of the capital’s 70 assembly constituencies. These guns will be working on an 8-hour shift from 10 am to 6 pm in the regions where the pollution levels are high.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 20 October launched a global movement 'Mission Life' to save the environment from the effects of climate change. On this occasion, PM Modi said that 'Mission Life' will help in tackling the climate crisis.
A recent study by the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Dehradun, found that nearly 55% of the area of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s (AMC) West Zone falls under flood-prone regions.
On the 17th of September 2022, Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) launched a tree plantation drive near Pirana Dumpsite under Mission Million Trees with the commitment of Green Ahmedabad.
Conversations with home-based female workers in the city of Ahmedabad have revealed that abnormal weather patterns (caused due to climate change) are negatively impacting their working conditions and quality of life.
A new research by the state-run Gujarat Energy Research & Management Institute (GERMI); Indian Institute of Public Health (IIPH), Gandhinagar; Natural Resources Defence Council (NRDC) of the US; and Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health made an alarming estimation that as a result of climate change, the average temperature of Ahmedabad could rise up to 0.81°C by 2030.
On 21st February 2022, a climate change outreach program – “Building a Climate-resilient Gujarat” was organized by the Climate Change Department at Science City in Ahmedabad.
Ahmedabad experienced one of its worst heatwaves in 2010 with 1,344 deaths, while 24,223 people lost their lives between 1992 and 2015 across India. The heatwave was extremely severe this year as well.
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report by Working Group II (WGII) warns that the impacts of climate change will continue to worsen and if we don’t limit greenhouse gases soon, we will have very little time to ensure that earth remains habitable.
Banlastic Egypt, an Alexandria-based social enterprise that tackles plastic pollution organized a beach cleanup on the 13th of August 2022 to raise the public's awareness about COP27 and of plastic pollution and how single-use plastic waste harms marine life if it eventually ends up in seas and oceans.
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