a seminar on air pollution in north india

1. Air pollution in North India : A
Public Health Emergency
Resource faculty: Dr. Ankur Yadav Presenter: Dr. Dipayan Banerjee

2. Content Overview
• Air pollution problem in Delhi and north India
• What is AQI
• Causes of air pollution
• Stubble burning problem
• Effects of air pollution
• Health problems of air pollution
• Health cost of air pollution
• SDG and air pollution
• GOI measures
• Statewise measures
• Proposals by agricultural scientists and experts
• An Inspiration

9. Causes

13. Effect of
Diwali
fire
crackers
burning

14. Effects
• Regional Weather Change
• Asian brown cloud
• Aggravation of cyclones on Arabian sea
• Greenhouse effect and global warming
• Health Impacts

16. Effects
• Regional Weather Change
• Asian brown cloud
• Aggravation of cyclones on Arabian sea
• Greenhouse effect and global warming
• Health Impacts

18. Effects
• Regional Weather Change
• Asian brown cloud
• Aggravation of cyclones on Arabian sea
• Greenhouse effect and global warming
• Health Impacts

21. Source: IARC releases

22. Health Cost of Air pollution
• Air pollution cause 620,000 early death per year
• Out of 480.7 million DALY’s 4.4% is due to air pollution
• Emergency room visit increased by 20-25%
• Ozone cause 12000 premature death per year
• Cost of premature death due to air pollution US$640 billion/year
• Life expectancy of an Indian decrease by 3.4 years on average

24. Air pollution and SDG
• SDG 3 : Good health and well being
• SDG 7.2 : Access to clean energy in home
• SDG 11.2 : Access to sustainable transport
• SDG 11.6 : Air quality in cities
• SDG 13 : Climate action
• Goals of Paris agreement on climate change

25. 1st WHO Global Conference on Air
Pollution and Health on 2 Nov 2018
• It calls for:
Enhancing education in air pollution
Enhancing joint action between financial, health, and environment sector
Continue joint effort for harmonized air pollution monitoring through global
platform in air pollution and health
Strengthening action to protect the most vulnerable group – children
Supporting cities in improving air quality

26. GOI acts against stubble burning:
1. Section 144 CPC to ban burning paddy residue
2. Air prevention and control of pollution act in 1981
3. The environment protection act of 1986
4. The national tribunal act of 1995
5. The national environment appellate authority act of 1997
6. The national green tribunal rules of 2015

27. Statewise rules
• ODD – EVEN rule
• Firecrackers ban
• Badarpur thermal power plant closure
• Local governments of various states also implemented measures such
as tighter vehicle emissions’ norms, higher penalties for burning
rubbish and better control of road dust
• The Indian government has committed to a 50% reduction in
households using solid fuel for cooking

29. Proposals
• Urge the farmers to shift to another crop
• Creation of rice bioparks as is set up at Myanmar
• Paddy-Straw-Management '(R)-device’ : with European technology,
introduced before the rice harvesting season, October (2020) will
drastically reduce this type or Air Pollution and bring benefit to the
farmers in Punjab and Haryana: 'waste-to-wealth’
• Install air purification towers like China
• Collect the stubble and use it to produce energy as much as 25000
Gigawatts

30. Some goals set for future are:
• Clean up the transportation sector by introducing 1,000
electric public transport buses to its 5,50-string feet
• Meet a goal of 25% of private vehicles to be electricity
powered by 2023
• Provide farmers with a machine called a Happy Seeder
which converts agricultural residue to fertilizer
• Analyze health data and study the efficiency of different
room filtration systems in areas where indoor air pollution
is highest

31. • Identify effective ways to inform the public about air
pollution data
• Launch new citizen science programs to better document
exposures
• Reduce Carbon Emissions: "According to Inter-
governmental Panel on Climate Change, to limit warming
well below 2 degree Celsius, CO2 emissions should decline
by about 20 per cent by 2030 and reach net zero around
2075; to limit warming below 1.5 degree Celsius, CO2
emissions should decline by 50 per cent by 2030 and
reach net zero by around 2050

32. People action to fight smog
• N95 masks
• SMOG eating paints
• Indoor plants to absorb pollution
• Indoor Air purifiers

33. -

36. WAYU air purifiers on Delhi roads turn dustbins, spittoons
Wind Augmentation & purifYing Units

38. THERE IS NO MORE LOVE IN THE AIR
ONLY POLLUTION