Designing equitable infrastructure interventions for carbon and air pollution mitigation in Indian cities

Both greenhouse gas (GHG) and PM2.5 (small, inhalable particles) air pollution emissions create challenges for cities. Both can arise from multiple infrastructure sectors in cities, including fossil fuel use in mobility, power generation, cement production, etc. This paper asks three key research questions:

• Who is responsible for these emissions, comparing households across different income strata with industries and business emissions? Do emissions come equally or unequally from different social groups?
• Are there infrastructure interventions that can simultaneously reduce GHG and PM2.5 emissions?
• How can these co-beneficial interventions be designed to address social equity?

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This brief is adapted from the following peer-reviewed journal article: Nagpure, A. S., Tong, K., & Ramaswami, A. (2022). Socially-differentiated urban metabolism methodology informs equity in coupled carbon-air pollution mitigation strategies: insights from three Indian cities. Environmental Research Letters , 17 (9).

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