The state of Gujarat, India has launched its second emissions trading scheme (ETS), announced its minister of tourism, forest and environment and climate change, Mulubhai Bera. Following the success of a 2019 pilot programme in Surat, developed in collaboration by Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), whose founders Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee are Nobel laureates in economics, Chicago University and Yale University in association with the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB), a new scheme has been implemented in Ahmedabad, where 188 industries will be covered.
