Asia · Southern Asia
33 projects · 33 organizations
Five worried Delhi mothers turned lockdown blue skies into a pan-India movement demanding clean air for every child.
By pooling village machines and advice at farmer-cooperative level, the CII Foundation's Cleaner Air Better Life programme took rice-straw burning in its villages from about 90% of farmers to roughly half in six years, and to 3-4% in its oldest villages.
A Delhi cleantech startup built a device that clamps onto diesel generator exhausts and turns the captured soot into usable ink and paint.
SayTrees packs dense Miyawaki mini-forests into Bengaluru's leftover urban land to cut heat and clean the air, one former parking lot or roadside strip at a time.
A former journalist's grassroots mission is replacing Punjab's smoke-choked stubble fires with mulching, composting, and organic farming.
A volunteer-driven Delhi non-profit that turned parental worry over toxic winters into a Supreme Court petition and a citywide clean-air education movement.
An Ahmedabad-founded women's NGO training female construction workers in Delhi to monitor air quality and demand clean-air action.