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Smog, a persistent issue that Delhi has been struggling with for a long time can be solved with the help of its rural neighbours, a study carried out by University of Surrey in association with officials from Delhi Pollution Control Committee, CSIR-NEERI and IIT-Delhi revealed...
Universitys Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) to fight the killer smog in the naitonal capital has recommended that regional air quality plans should be drawn up for Indian cities...
The research which has urged to involve regional agencies has revealed that most of the low-and-middle-income countries have failed to manage elevated levels of air pollution becuase of no localised source control approaches by the agencies within their jurisdictional boundaries...
The study highlighted that airshed management in Mexico and Los Angeles which combined scientific evidence with governance innovation, effective coordination among different agencies, technical cooperation across sectors, allowing regulatory integration of control measures to reduce both stationary and vehicle emissions helped in combating smog in their regions...
A significant portion of air pollution stems from sources outside city limits, which requires a shift from city-specific to region-specific emission reduction targets," said Mukesh Khare, Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at IIT-D to ToI...
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