‘Without action, India’s air quality to be ‘severely worse’ than China’s’

Nagpur | Saturday | 19th January, 2019

Summary:

As per the organization’s latest ambient air pollution data, Delhi’s annual mean of PM2.5 was 143 mpcm in 2016. While this amount is estimated to be 3% of the GDP, it will be around eight times the amount country will have to spend on mitigation measures. This is much higher than China’s estimated gains of 1.5-7% of its GDP for similar measures. Nagpur: Among the Asian countries, India stands to gain the most if it takes care of the toxic air and pre-mature deaths resulting out of it. In most part of the northern India, the average was above 100 mpcm which is highly dangerous..