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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·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
EPIC-India News·Sep 10, 2024

Expanding Electricity Access Doesn’t Always Increase Wealth

A new study finds that an increase in electrification brings significant benefits to larger villages, but has a limited impact in small, rural villages.
EPIC-India News·Aug 27, 2024

Air Pollution Remains the Greatest External Risk to Human Health as Most Countries Fail to Set or Meet Their Own Standards for Clean Air

While pollution slightly dipped due largely to a trend reversal in South Asia, more than three-quarters of countries around the world have not set or aren’t meeting national pollution standards.
EPIC-India News·Jul 24, 2024

The Near Extinction of Indian Vultures Led to the Death of a Half Million People

A new study shows that when tens of millions of vultures were unintentionally poisoned in India, it removed “nature’s sanitation service” and allowed deadly bacteria and infections to proliferate.
EPIC-India News·Feb 26, 2024

Providing Farmers with Better Forecasts Helps Them Adapt to Climate Change

When farmers in India are given highly accurate monsoon forecasts not typically available to them, they make better investment decisions—demonstrating that countries have an opportunity to better protect their economies from climate change by improving weather forecasting.
ETI-India News·Jan 3, 2024

Pritzker Molecular Engineering, IBM pilot program to help target pollution hot spots in India

Water-to-Cloud, a mobile sensor platform-based measurement and mapping technique developed by Pritzker Molecular Engineering Professor Supratik Guha and his team, is changing the way India targets sources of water pollution.
EPIC-India News·May 23, 2022

Gujarat, India Plans Cap-and-Trade Market for Carbon Emissions

The market will be the first of its kind among emerging economies, outside of China. Leading researchers from the University of Chicago, Yale and J-PAL will help design the program, allowing Gujarat to tap global expertise.