Translated from remarks of Mayor’s during the climate pledge taking program in Kolkata Municipal Corporation on September 14, when Kolkata became the first city in India and biggest in south Asia to express formal support for non-fossil fuel driven future and increasing climate resilience; joining the list that already has more than 70 global cities
A new global report has ranked Delhi as one of the global toppers within most populous cities when gross mortality caused by toxic PM 2.5 pollutants is considered; but Mumbai leads the metro cities in India when the rise of PM 2.5 linked deaths is assessed over the last decade. PM 2.5 is the ultrafine
Kolkata continues to be choked with foul air despite getting a windfall for pollution control; environmentalists claim serving political interest is the trigger behind the city’s investment in non-priority sectors linked to air pollution control. Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has received over 536 crores from union government since 2019 to combat air pollution in the
Heap of endangered turtles, found dead in an outfall canal last Wednesday at Medinipur around 50 km away from Digha and initially believed to have killed by toxic effluent released by adjacent rice mill, were actually thrown into the canal by traffickers when the animals died in transit; claimed local police on Friday evening after
A senior ground water expert from Kolkata has opined that Kolkata Municipal Corporation should immediately stop withdrawing underground water in Bowbazar and adjacent zone within central Kolkata to halt further subsidence and collapse of houses in the area being triggered by an accident catered by East – West metro construction first in 2019; and again,
A coincidence, as loud as one can be. On last Monday hardly few hours after Eastern Zonal bench of National Green Tribunal observed that no effective action has been taken by police to control noise pollution in Kolkata and rest of West Bengal; CPM MP and former Mayor of Kolkata Bikash Bhattacharya violated noise norms
The global squeeze on coal funding can impact the ambitious DeuchaPachami project of the West Bengal government.The recently released report prepared by a consortium of several specialized global non profits and think-tanks, titled Boom and Bust Coal, found that total global coal power capacity under development declined in 2021; and pointed out that “essentially no
The climate-battered Sundarban, on ground, was not exactly music to Didier Talpain, French consul general in Kolkata, who also happens to be an acclaimed musician. Talpain has recently visited Sagar and adjoining Ghoramara islands in Sundarbanto assess the climatic vulnerability of the region and consider activities that France government or its private sector may support
Kolkata, a city with traditionally huge groundwater reserves, is on its way to becoming a water deficient city due to a combination of increasing concretization and over withdrawal of underground water. The ground water level within the Kolkata Municipal Corporation area is declining at least 1 foot per year; finds a recently published study in
The level of ultrafine particulate, the most toxic pollutants called PM 2.5, in Dhaka was nearly 17 times higher than the permitted level of World Health Organisation (WHO); finds a recent nationwide survey carried out by Centre for Atmospheric Pollution Studies (CAPS), a unit of Stamford University Bangladesh. PM 2.5 pollutants are minuscule particulates, 20