Tag Air Pollution

Clearing the Air: India's National Clean Air Programme and the Path Forward

Clearing the Air: India’s National Clean Air Programme and the Path Forward

The National Clean Air Programme is a pollution-control initiative that was started by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) in 2019 with the goal of reducing the concentration of coarse (particulate matter with a diameter of less than 10 micrometres, or PM10) and fine (particulate matter with a diameter of less than 2.5 micrometres, or PM2.5) particles by at least 20% over the course of the following five years, using 2017 as the baseline year for comparison.
CityConversations Combating Air Pollution in NCR

Video: Combating Air Pollution in National Capital Region

The State of Cities – #CityConversations Panel Discussion on Combating Air Pollution in National Capital Region National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM), Ministry of Home Affairs, and #IMPRI Center for Habitat, Urban and Regional Studies (CHURS), IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute,…

How to avoid air pollution in India

How to avoid air pollution in India?

Gurinder Kaur Two studies released on September 1, 2021 on the damage to human health due to increasing air pollution in India have revealed very worrying facts. One study is conducted by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of…

Air Pollution

Air Pollution: A Massacre for Delhi

Gurinder Kaur According to the study by international team of researchers from the University of Birmingham and UCL, comprising scientists from the UK, Belgium, Jamaica, and India, released their findings highlighting air pollution is on the rise in a number…