{"id":515568,"date":"2022-08-20T11:01:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T05:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=515568"},"modified":"2022-08-20T12:18:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T06:48:52","slug":"electrification-of-public-transport-earns-pune-city-global-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/electrification-of-public-transport-earns-pune-city-global-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Electrification of public transport earns Pune City global recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pune City has been selected as a finalist in the 2022 C40 Cities Bloomberg Philanthropies Awards in the \u201cUnited to clean the air we breathe\u201d category, in recognition of its work on pioneering electrification of public bus transport in the Pune Metropolitan Area.<\/p>\n<p>The electrification of public transport is a critical aspect of decarbonising urban mobility in India as well as globally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach year, Pune\u2019s transport sector emits an estimated 1.1 million metric tons of CO2\u2015 about one-fifth of the city\u2019s annual greenhouse gas emissions. Vehicular emissions contribute to about 25 per cent of the city\u2019s particulate matter (PM) emissions, which, on an average, exceed international guidelines,\u201d according to a statement released by PMC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pune City has been selected as a finalist in the 2022 C40 Cities Bloomberg Philanthropies Awards in the \u201cUnited to clean the air we breathe\u201d category, in recognition of its work on pioneering electrification of public bus transport in the Pune Metropolitan Area. The electrification of public transport is a critical aspect of decarbonising urban mobility in India as well as globally. \u201cEach year, Pune\u2019s transport sector emits an estimated 1.1 million metric tons of CO2\u2015 about one-fifth of the city\u2019s annual greenhouse gas emissions. Vehicular emissions contribute to about 25 per cent of the city\u2019s particulate matter (PM) emissions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}