Policy Brief

Themes

Harnessing the Potential of Bio-Resources to Produce Low Carbon Bio-Hydrogen

08 Jun 2023

| Mr Jayant Sinha

| Dr Divyesh Arora

Plastic Waste Management: Turning Challenges into Opportunities

02 Dec 2020

Plastics not only are enduring, lightweight, and available at low prices, but also have very good thermal and electrical insulation properties. The versatile properties of various plastic polymers— being water-resistant, non-porous, ductile and malleable—make them suitable for manufacturing a wide range of products that also bring medical and technological advances in our modern society.

G20 Circular Carbon Economy: Fostering Circularity in Plastics

27 Oct 2020

| Dr Shilpi Kapur

| Mr Souvik Bhattacharjya

| Ms Rachel A. Meidl

Fostering circularity in plastic use is an effective way to reduce contamination of marine and coastal environments with plastics and man-made debris. However, there are many challenges down this path.

Nutrient pollution in the South Asia Seas (SAS)

03 Dec 2019

| Ms Mrinal Mathur

Anthropogenic activities like (i) agriculture fertilisers, (ii) coastal pisciculture, (i) sewage discharge, (iv) industrial activity, (v) burning fossil fuels and (vi) effluents from ports increase nutrients in surface water and seas. Nitrate pollution is largely caused by agriculture run-off, discharge from industry and manure or sewage. Phosphate pollution is tied to improper treatment of detergents in wastewater and from agro-fertilisers. These land-based pollutants make their way to coastal waters through networks of rivers and streams and cause nutrient pollution in the marine environment.

Discussion Paper on Faecal Sludge Management in Urban India: Policies, Practices, and Possibilities

09 Dec 2016

| Dr Syamal Kumar Sarkar

| Dr Girija K Bharat

Urban Sanitation and Need for Faecal Sludge Management (FSM) in India The Government of India has undertaken an ambitious social change endeavour of clean and open defecation free (ODF) India. Sustained efforts in this direction has improved the sanitation scenario in India, which in turn would help in achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 6 of universal and equitable access to safe and aff ordable drinking water and adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all.