Chetan Bhattacharji

Ban Fossil Fuel Advertisements Recommends Study On ‘Cradle To Grave’ Climate & Health Impacts - Health Policy Watch A sweeping new report by a consortium of climate and health experts offers a global indictment of how fossil fuels harm populations - from extraction to

📣Fossil fuel harms start before birth & never stop.

A sweeping new report from @gchalliance.bsky.social calls for bold, immediate action to protect human health from “cradle to grave” harms of fossil fuels.

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@iea.org @shwetanarayan30.bsky.social @nature.com

📖⬇️ & 🙏🔁

Is @bsky.app a flop? Don’t see much traction or buzz either on the app or about it outside.

X meanwhile is still going strong, for better or worse

This Changes Everything - From Our DNA to IQ to Early Death Solutions work, but only if those in charge speeded up action. Plus, one hack to protect yourself. Two new global reports raise alarm about India's growing challenges.

It’s #BlueSkiesDay today, and much of India is in the clean-ish, green zone as I write this. It won't last beyond a few weeks, given the trends of the last decade and more.

Two recent global studies spell out concerns for the country.

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India Reverses Key Policy, Exempting Most Coal-fired Power Plants From Emission Rules - Health Policy Watch NEW DELHI – On 11 July, the Indian government changed its own rules, exempting most coal-fired power plants from installing technology to reduce sulphur

India Reverses Key Policy, Exempting Most Coal-fired Power Plants from Emission Rules

India is the largest SO2 emitter, mostly from such plants.

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@cleanairfund.bsky.social | @cseindia.bsky.social | @creacleanair.bsky.social

Indian Study Calls For Air Quality Index To Be Linked To Health Risk - Health Policy Watch Delhi and other Indian cities should replace the one-size-fits-all air quality index (AQI) with a city-specific health index focused on premature death risks,

Indian Study Calls for Air Quality Index to Be Linked to Health Risk

With the risk of death added, the AQHI may be taken more seriously by the public & government.

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@cleanairfund.bsky.social

Making data harder to get in digital India 👇🏾

Day after Rahul Gandhi’s ‘expose’, access to voter rolls hits a snag - www.thehindu.com/news/nationa... For the best experience read this on The Hindu App. bit.ly/THNewsApp
@thehindu.com

The dark horse of AI labs How Anthropic’s missionary zeal is fuelling its commercial success

The dark horse of AI labs
economist.com/business/202...
from The Economist #Anthropic

In which polluted and warming world does this make sense?

Besides, the ROI benefit is almost 4x - for every 1 rupee invested in cutting this emission, the estimated benefit is 3.79.
#FGD #coalfiredpowerplants #India #AirPollution

More than 14 million children worldwide have never received a single dose of any vaccine, new report warns | CNN An estimated 14.3 million children globally remain unvaccinated and vulnerable to vaccine-preventable illnesses – meaning that those children have received no vaccines at all, according to a new repor...

An estimated 14.3 million children globally remain completely unvaccinated, according to a new report, and public health experts point to conflict zones as threatening childhood vaccination efforts worldwide.

Opinion | Europe’s Leaders Are Doing Something Disastrous

#climatechangepost: Twenty years after the deadly #heat of 2003, Europe’s heat response is still ineffective www.climatechangepost.com/news/twenty-...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...

YouTube video by The Hindu From Bans to odd-even schemes: What will it take to fix Delhi’s pollution problem? | Climate Economy

Why Delhi’s controversial old vehicle ban is need for India’s battle against its terrible #airpollution -
I discuss with @thehindu.com ‘s @kunalshankar.bsky.social
youtu.be/O_njWIaMliA

#DelhiVehicleBan
#DelhiFuelBan

Delhi Government Blinks After Protests Against Crackdown On Polluting Vehicles  - Health Policy Watch NEW DELHI – When drivers entered fuel stations on 1 July, they found bright new warning signs and traffic police positioned at the fuel pumps. Old vehicles

Delhi Government Blinks After Protests Against Crackdown on Polluting Vehicles

Gasoline vehicles older than 10 years, diesel vehicles older than 15 years, could face action.

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@cleanairfund.bsky.social @narendra-modi.bsky.social @theicct.org

Watching the mainstream media buckle is so… familiar :/

Halving Delhi’s AQI In 2-3 Years... And Other Soundbytes From 'Aironomics' After the BJP won power in Delhi, expectation is high that air pollution control will no longer face political or administrative hurdles. A roadmap by experts evolved at a recent AQ conference.

For cleaner air in India, charge better-off families more for cooking gas to subsidise LPG cylinders for poorer households for clean cooking solutions.

Pragmatic solutions like this were on offer from India’s top air quality & health experts.
Some excerpts #Aironomics2025
#AirPollution

Penn Engineers Discover a New Class of Materials That Passively Harvest Water from Air - Penn Engineering Blog A serendipitous observation in a Chemical Engineering lab at Penn Engineering has led to a surprising discovery: a new class of nanostructured materials that can … Read More ›

A new class of materials that passively harvests #water from the air.
Because science.
From a project funded by the US National Science Foundation.

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In India too.

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Five Hotspot Countries Are Key To Preventing Vehicle Pollution - Health Policy Watch Pollution from fossil-fuel vehicles is most lethal for two age groups, those above the age of 65 and those under five, a new study shows.

Five Hotspot Countries Are Key to Preventing Vehicle Pollution

China, India, Indonesia, the United States, and Mexico together account for the largest number of avoidable deaths and new asthma cases linked to nitrogen dioxide from road transport.

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@theicct.org

State Department Halts Interviews for Student and Exchange Visas

To scrutinise SM accounts… reportedly

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Congress moves to loosen toxic air pollution rules The House and Senate both voted to loosen regulations on air pollutants like dioxin and mercury, which are associated with higher cancer risk.

By @alejandrabee.bsky.social

The House and Senate both voted to loosen regulations on air pollutants like dioxin and mercury, which are associated with higher cancer risk.

Urgent mediation to save the Indus Waters Treaty could be a route to de-escalation between India and Pakistan Tensions over water have contributed to the outbreak of hostilities, but potential mediation by the World Bank could provide an important chance for engagement.

The Indus Waters Treaty was considered an exemplar of resource diplomacy. Its suspension can only fuel tensions between India and Pakistan.

Africans lost nearly $70M to denied visas applications to Europe in 2024 | CNN Non-refundable fees from failed Europe visa applications are costing African countries millions of dollars, with applicants complaining of a baffling system of approvals.

In total, African countries lost 60 million euros in rejected visa fees in 2024, analysis from the LAGO Collective shows.

Africans have long complained about inconsistent, sometimes baffling decisions about who gets approved or denied while applying for European visas.

BREAKING - WHO Director General Shakes Up Agency With Brand New Leadership Team - Health Policy Watch A brand-new World Health Organization (WHO) leadership team has been announced, including a dramatically reduced number of leaders and a major shake-out of

BREAKING – A brand-new @who.int leadership team has been announced, including a dramatically reduced number of leaders and a major shake-out of longstanding faces.

✍️ Elaine Ruth Fletcher
@drtedros.who.int
@jeremyfarrar.bsky.social | @wellcometrust.bsky.social

What India is Getting Right in Climate Action India's villages are becoming unlikely climate leaders, with communities eager to adopt new tools, practices. For to scale, this needs macro-level emission cuts, policy support, and patient capital.

What India is Getting Right in Climate Action 👇🏾

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@gatesfoundation.bsky.social @ikeafoundation.bsky.social #ClimateAction
#ClimateComms

NOAA will stop updating a key disasters database that has publicly tracked the cost of extreme weather and climate events: cnn.it/3YzP7ZW

Jordan's Petra Development and Tourism Region Authority evacuated hundreds of tourists from the ancient city of Petra on Sunday after heavy rainfall triggered flash floods in several areas of the region, in a precautionary move to ensure visitor safety.

🎥AFP

Indian Summit Showcases Solar And Innovative Cooling Methods As Pressure Mounts For Immediate Climate Solutions - Health Policy Watch There’s an urgency to scale climate change solutions quickly, was the unofficial mantra at the World Health Summit, as delegates called for faster change and

Indian Summit Showcases Solar and Innovative Cooling Methods as Pressure Mounts for Immediate Climate Solutions

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@worldhealthsummit.bsky.social
@path.org
#SoumyaSwaminathan

India’s first World Health Summit held in a “perfect storm”

My report
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#WHS2025

Huh..? News to me.
Hope @mrrickygervais.bsky.social does a video on this!

Ice all but disappeared from this Alaskan island. It changed everything. A warming Bering Sea kept ice away from this Alaskan island — leading to the closure of a crab processing plant and fraying of the community.

St. Paul Island recently completed its longest winter stretch in recorded history with above-freezing temperatures — 343 consecutive hours, or 14 days.

The drastic climate change has forced residents to consider how long they can last there.