India, Jan. 20 -- Policies are needed to support existing cyclists in order to unlock the emission reduction potential of cycling.

In cities like Delhi and Accra, cycling is a necessity for many low-income workers.

But infrastructure often neglects their needs, focusing instead on automobiles.

This gap results in increased pollution and safety issues.

Bicycling has the potential to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution in rapidly growing cities of the Global South, but only if policies are informed by the lived realities of people who already depend on cycles for daily travel, a new international study has found.

Published in Nature Cities, the research examined bicycling in Delhi and Chennai in India, Dhaka...