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News·Apr 19, 2026

Heatwave Intensity, Frequency and Hotspot Extent Have Increased in India Over the Last 26 Years: Study

The Wire cites the latest report from UChicago’s Climate Impact Lab, which states that global climate change will increase the number of premature deaths due to hotter temperatures.
EPIC News·Mar 31, 2026

How Some Cities Are Developing A More Sustainable Future

Forbes reports EPIC and EMA’s Emissions Trading Scheme project as featured in Earthshot Prize’s latest report.
News·Feb 25, 2026

UChicago Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth presence at the Mumbai Climate Week

Anchoring climate leadership in India, the senior leadership presented the Institute’s work being done in the Global South and beyond.
EPIC News·Feb 25, 2026

From Pilots to Policy: Scaling Pollution Markets for Cleaner Air and Water

At Mumbai Climate Week 2026, a cross-sector dialogue explored how evidence, partnerships, and market-based solutions are shaping the future of clean air and water governance in India.
In The News·Feb 9, 2026

UC Berkeley Haas Sustainable Business Research Prize awarded to paper on the world’s first particulate emissions market

via Haas News
EPIC's research on pollution markets, which spurred the launch of its Emissions Market Accelerator, was awarded the UC Berkeley Haas Sustainable Business Research Prize for 2025-2026.
In The News·Jan 29, 2026

A case for reviving bicycling culture in Nigeria

via The Punch
A column by Greg Odogwu In 2001, then-Minister of Transport, late Chief Ojo Maduekwe, urged Nigerians to adopt cycling as a sustainable and eco-friendly alternative to vehicles, to reduce traffic congestion. As part of his “Organic Transportation” initiative, he famously...
EPIC News·Jan 22, 2026

Setting the Course: Rajasthan Begins Its Journey Toward a State-wide SO₂ Emissions Trading Scheme

A knowledge exchange workshop that enabled learnings from other states to inform the design and implementation of Rajasthan’s ETS
In The News·Jan 21, 2026

Bicycling Could Cut Emissions and Pollution in the Global South—With the Right Policies, Study Finds

via MOZ24H
After collecting feedback from bicyclists and other stakeholders across four cities in India, Bangladesh and Ghana, the study shows policymakers must meet people where they are and not rely on the same policies that have worked in richer countries.
In The News·Jan 21, 2026

Why cycling still matters in Dhaka and why policy keeps ignoring it

via Dhaka Tribune
For many in Dhaka, cycling is not about fitness or leisure. It is about getting to work.
In The News·Jan 21, 2026

Reduction in transport emissions needs safer cyclists, not just EVs: Study by IIT, University of Chicago

via Indian Express
Published in Nature Cities on Tuesday, the study titled 'The status and politics of bicycling in the cities of low- and middle-income countries' pointed out that transport contributes nearly 30% of greenhouse gas emissions in major Indian cities.