Amit Bhatt, Managing Director in India for the International Council on Clean Transportation lays down the challenges in reducing our dependence on combustion for transportation and energy needs in our cities. Are cities other than Delhi really as clean as they claim to be? Are all the COP committments really percolating down to action on the ground? What are the complexities in climate change governance that is preventing our transition away from combustion?

Ever complained how bad our cities are? How bad your commute is? You’ll get to hear from people who are working to solve these problems in their own way. 

This is your weekly soapbox for Urban Sustainability with Sathya Sankaran

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Timecodes

00:00 - Preview & intro

02:19 - Beyond Delhi

09:33 - Root causes

17:06 - Responsibility football

21:59 - Solving the problem

26:05 - Questionable Pathways?

31:15 - Green stifling growth?

37:53 - Coercion

47:38 - Driving change

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Profile of Amit Bhatt - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amit-bhatt-7b434324/

International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) - https://theicct.org

Amit Bhatt & Harsimran Kaur: India’s Path to Clean Transport is Electric, Strong Central Policies on Zero-Emission Vehicles, News 18 - https://www.news18.com/news/opinion/indias-path-to-clean-transport-is-electric-strong-central-policies-on-zero-emission-vehicles-5313373.html

Anuj Dhole, Sandra Wappelhorst, and Amit Bhatt: Improving air quality in cities through transport-focused low- and zero-emission zones: Legal pathways and opportunities for India, ICCT - https://theicct.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Legal-pathways-LEZ-and-ZEZ_final.pdf

Amit Bhatt: How Delhi is Becoming a Lighthouse City for Electric Mobility in India, News 18 - https://www.news18.com/news/opinion/how-delhi-is-becoming-a-lighthouse-city-for-electric-mobility-in-india-4660373.html

Amit Bhatt & Garima Agrawal: Electric vehicles could help fight India’s pollution crisis – but the lack of bank loans is a hurdle, Scroll - https://scroll.in/article/981572/electric-vehicles-could-help-fight-indias-pollution-crisis-but-the-lack-of-bank-loans-is-a-hurdle

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