{"id":643872,"date":"2025-08-20T11:59:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T06:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=643872"},"modified":"2025-08-20T11:59:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T06:29:58","slug":"nhais-sustainability-push-greenhouse-gas-emissions-dip-even-as-highway-construction-picks-up-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nhais-sustainability-push-greenhouse-gas-emissions-dip-even-as-highway-construction-picks-up-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"NHAI&#8217;s sustainability push: Greenhouse gas emissions dip, even as highway construction picks up pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) took a step towards sustainable development, announcing that its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions intensity has been reduced to 0.8 MTCO\u2082e per kilometre from 1.0 MTCO2e\/km.<\/p>\n<p>This drop comes even as national highway construction rose by 20% in FY 2023\u201324, the agency said in its latest Sustainability Report.<\/p>\n<p>The comprehensive 2023\u201324 report outlines NHAI\u2019s approach to embedding environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles across its operations. A key highlight was the Authority\u2019s progress towards a circular economy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) took a step towards sustainable development, announcing that its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions intensity has been reduced to 0.8 MTCO\u2082e per kilometre from 1.0 MTCO2e\/km. This drop comes even as national highway construction rose by 20% in FY 2023\u201324, the agency said in its latest Sustainability Report. The comprehensive 2023\u201324 report outlines NHAI\u2019s approach to embedding environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles across its operations. A key highlight was the Authority\u2019s progress towards a circular economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,221,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643872","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}