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News Gujarat launches trading scheme for particulate matter

Gujarat launches trading scheme for particulate matter

Written by Global Cement staff 07 June 2019
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India: The state of Gujarat has launched a market-based cap-and-trade system in particulate matter to reduce air pollution. It says it is the first such initiative in the world. The project is being piloted in Surat with the aim to expanding it nationally subsequently.

“With this program, we are kicking off a new era of cleaner production, while lowering industry compliance costs and rewarding plants that cut pollution in low-cost ways,” said Rajiv Kumar Gupta IAS, chairman of the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB). The GPCB is carrying out the emissions trading program with the help of a team of researchers from the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC), the Evidence for Policy Design at Harvard Kennedy School, the Economic Growth Center at Yale University and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab. The researchers are evaluating the program’s benefits and costs, relative to the status quo, using a randomised controlled trial.

The emissions trading program builds on work by the GPCB in using continuous emissions monitoring systems to track industry emissions in real time. About 350 industries around Surat have installed continuous emissions monitoring systems and now transmit real-time emissions data. The new scheme takes advantage of this technology for its monitoring.

Last modified on 12 June 2019
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