{"id":35712,"date":"2018-11-01T11:30:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35712"},"modified":"2018-11-01T11:30:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T06:00:13","slug":"its-time-to-focus-on-the-toxic-air-we-breathe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/its-time-to-focus-on-the-toxic-air-we-breathe\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time to focus on the toxic air we breathe:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-opinion\/its-time-to-focus-on-the-toxic-air-we-breathe\/article19468512.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s time to focus on the toxic air we breathe<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NITI Aayog\u2019s draft energy policy ignores the health impacts of energy choices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Issues related to subsidies<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On June 27, 2017, the Niti Aayog released the draft National Energy Policy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the draft energy policy ignores the health impacts of energy choices<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Draft policy ignores health:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An important aspect that the draft policy ignores is public health, especially in the context of the energy mix envisaged under the NITI Ambition Scenario. (The Ambition Scenario is a tool to arrive at a range of possible energy futures for the energy sector till 2040.)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the document, there are 14 references to health, of which only five relate to public health in the context of household cooking fuel. The rest are analogies to describe the health of the coal sector and discoms.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, according to environmental health researchers, children represent the subgroup of the population most affected by air pollution.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although the National Health Policy of 2017 views reducing air pollution as vital to India\u2019s health trajectory, the National Energy Policy neither reflects nor supports the commitment outlined by the MHFW<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Suggestions:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vision documents like the National Energy Policy have to strive to minimise the unavoidable health impacts of energy production, and their associated health costs, especially given the policy\u2019s stated objectives of sustainability and economic growth.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The policy should include a health impact assessment framework to weigh the health hazards and health costs associated with the entire life cycle of existing and future energy projects and technologies.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s time to focus on the toxic air we breathe:\u00a0 NITI Aayog\u2019s draft energy policy ignores the health impacts of energy choices. Issues related to subsidies Context: On June 27, 2017, the Niti Aayog released the draft National Energy Policy. But the draft energy policy ignores the health impacts of energy choices Draft policy ignores&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/its-time-to-focus-on-the-toxic-air-we-breathe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It\u2019s time to focus on the toxic air we breathe:\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704856711},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}