YES Foundation had established the Chair for Climate Modeling at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT-Delhi) to strengthen research in the field of climate change in India and to educate manpower in numerical modeling of the Earth system and climate. India needs reliable climate projection for future planning and policy making to make informed decisions against the backdrop of environmental sustainability - global warming and climate change - and the project grant was directed towards supporting the stated objective of developing an India-centric Climate Model.
Under the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways' 'Adopt a Green Highway' initiative, YES Foundation entered into a tripartite agreement with Harit Path Pvt. Ltd. and YES BANK to adopt a 40-kilometer stretch along the Mumbai-Nashik Highway in 2017. We maintained >40,000 trees along this stretch for over five years. This endeavor contributed towards achieving India's environmental sustainability commitment to creating an additional carbon sink of 2.5 to 3 billion tons of CO2 equivalent by 2030.
To read the external endline assessment report for the Greening Highways project, click here.