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News·Apr 16, 2025

Can emissions trading systems fix air pollution? A Surat study shows the way

via India Today
Surat ETS findings cited in India Today as a pioneering project that could potentially change how countries fight air pollution caused by industrialisation, especially in developing economies like India.
News·Apr 16, 2025

World’s first particulate matter trading scheme in Gujarat cut pollution by up to 30%, finds study led by ex-Obama advisor

via Indian Express
The research findings of the Surat ETS was cited in the front page of Indian Express.
EPIC-India News·Apr 15, 2025

World’s First Particulate Pollution Market Reduced Pollution and Increased Industry Profits

Experiment finds that the cap-and-trade market in Gujarat, India reduced pollution by 20 to 30 percent while reducing industrial plants’ pollution abatement costs by more than 10 percent and increasing compliance with the law.
News·Jan 16, 2025

Anant Sudarshan on Market Solutions to Air Pollution, Energy Policy, and Ecological Disruption

via Ideas Of India
Anant Sudarshan, Senior Fellow at the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC), speaks to Ideas of India’s Shruti Rajagopalan to discuss air pollution in India, crop burning, subsidizing electricity, depleting groundwater, the impact of the collapse of...
News·Jan 7, 2025

Policy Insights for Climate Action on the Cool It Down Podcast

via YouTube
Kaushik Deb, Executive Director, EPIC India in conversation on BBC Media Action India’s Cool it Down podcast.
EPIC-India News·Jan 1, 2025

Pollution markets can power economic growth and improve environmental quality: Michael Greenstone

via Indian Express
EPIC Director talks to Indian Express on balancing climate policy and addressing CO₂ pricing’s impact on vulnerable communities.
News·Dec 13, 2024

University of Chicago Center in Delhi Sets Ambitious Goals for Future, as Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth Launches in India

The Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth will balance the urgency of climate action with society’s need for sustainable growth.
News·Dec 9, 2024

EPIC India’s Decade in Frames: 10 Years, 10 Milestones

A photographic journey through EPIC India’s transformative impact over the last decade
News·Nov 20, 2024

UChicago, IIT Bombay form new science and technology partnership

Collaboration to spur innovation in fields ranging from climate to AI to data science
News·Oct 9, 2024

Ahmedabad University launches Climate Institute

via Times of India
Ahmedabad University’s Climate Institute brings together local, national and global resources to develop solutions for the climate, energy and environmental challenges of the Global South.