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Project Update: Clean Air Catalyst Joins “Better Quality of Life” World Environment Day Celebrations in Jakarta
Clean Air Catalyst team joined Jakarta’s celebration of World Environment Day 2024 alongside Jakarta’s Environment Agency, Jak Sehat, and Breath Jakarta.
Six Takeaways from Indore’s New Air Quality Monitoring Stations
Research around the world shows that pollution levels can vary enormously within the same city and even within the same neighborhood. Local monitoring data can thus prove essential to understanding air pollution sources, how they affect different communities and groups, and where to target policy solutions. That’s why Clean Air Catalyst launched three air quality monitoring stations in Indore in January 2023. These new stations have significantly improved the city’s air quality tracking capabilities in some important ways:
Program Update: Clean Air Catalyst Indore Showcased at State Clean Air Workshop
The Clean Air Catalyst Indore pilot was featured at a state-level workshop held last week by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board (MPPCB) under the National Clean Air Program (NCAP). The goals of the workshop, held in Indore, were to take stock of the current state of air quality mitigation activities underway in Madhya Pradesh’s largest cities and to enable the sharing of policy strategies to expedite progress. Key dignitaries present include Gulshan Bamra, the Principal Secretary of the Environment Department, who chaired the workshop, and Dr. Prashant Gargava, Director of NCAP.