India to study soot’s impact on environment
March 29th, 2011 - 8:03 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, March 29 (IANS) India Tuesday launched a research initiative to study the impact of black carbon - the soot released due to indoor burning of fuels such as wood, dung and coal and open biomass burning - on the environment, especially on melting glaciers in the country.
The Black Carbon Research Initiative is a multi-institutional programme involving 101 institutions from environment ministry, ministry of earth sciences, ministry of science and technology and department of space.
The study will carried at a cost of Rs. 200 crore in next five years.
“The study would lead to long-term monitoring of aerosols, monitoring of impact of black carbon on snow, estimating magnitude of black carbon sources using inventory,” said Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh.
The initiative is a part of Indian Network for Climate Change Assessment (INCCA) launched in 2009.
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