10:30am - 11:30am BST
Wednesday 24 May 2023
Air Quality Management in Indian Megacities
Dr Anwar Ali Khan from the Delhi Pollution Control Committee is visiting GCARE thanks to a Fellowship awarded by the Surrey’s Institute of Advanced Studies. Please join us to hear about his work around air quality management in Indian megacities.
Free
University of Surrey
Guildford
Surrey
GU2 7XH
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India's struggle to reduce dangerous levels of air pollution is at a tipping point. According to the World Health Organization, 15 out of the 20 most polluted cities in the world are in India, exposing over 660 million people to unhealthy air that fails to meet India’s National Air Quality standards for Particulate Matter. Dr Khan's talk will be on the existing level of Air Quality, Sources, Action Taken, Challenges and way forward for sustained progress.
This visit was made possible through a Fellowship awarded by Surrey's Institute of Advanced Studies.
Speaker
Dr Anwar Ali Khan
Senior Environmental Engineer, Delhi Pollution Control Committee, India
Biography
In Delhi – the most polluted city in the world – there is an urgent need to address the acute air quality problem with an ‘air shed’ approach which takes into account air pollutants from outside the city boundaries. Dr Khan, a Senior Environmental Engineer within Delhi’s government, will attempt to identify the best modelling tools to help understand atmospheric transport of pollution and its dispersion, and to develop air shed delineation protocols, creating a model for other Indian megacities.