Reduced air pollution during COVID-19: Learnings for sustainability from Indian Cities

Dasgupta, Purnamita; Srikanth, Kavitha

doi:10.1016/j.glt.2020.10.002

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“…Most of these cities come under the NCAP and are classified as non-attainment cities. As noted in Dasgupta and Srikanth (2020) ,a comparison of the daily concentrations of pollutants 5 such as PM 10 , NO x , PM 2.5 and CO over the lockdown period with corresponding levels during the same period in the previous year reveals that there are marked declines in the levels of most pollutants. For this analysis, we consider in particular the data on PM 10 and PM 2.5 concentrations.…”

Section: Air Quality During Covid-19 Lockdown Periodmentioning

confidence: 83%

“…For example, transport, industry and dust from construction and roads contribute majorly to PM 10 and PM 2.5 pollution in Delhi (ARAI and TERI 2018) and to PM 2.5 pollution in Mumbai and Ahmedabad. Local sources of PM 2.5 pollution are important for Varanasi, including cooking, lighting and heating, apart from dust from roads and burning of open waste (Guttikunda et al, 2019;Dasgupta & Srikanth, 2020). 3 Across studies, it is observed that for most cities, air pollution was also clearly attributable to transboundary sources, beyond city boundaries.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The most stringent measures were imposed during a four-week period from March to April covering transportation, manufacturing and construction, followed by a gradual easing of restrictions in stages each lasting for a few weeks at a time. It is reasonable to presume that the halting of activities in major sectors of the economy would lead to reduction in pollution attributable to these Researchers have noted that pollution across various cities changed markedly during the first phase of near complete lockdown (Dasgupta & Srikanth, 2020;Sharma et al, 2020;ICIMOD, 2020). Building on these earlier analyses, for the present exercise, we select a few cities which are representative of some of the highly polluted cities located within some of the most polluted states in India, for which there was comparable and consistent data publicly available.…”

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Unbundling Air Pollution Concerns: A Closer Look at Socio-economic Factors

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2021

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The adverse health impacts from air pollution are a grave concern, especially for India, where air pollution has been on the rise for several decades now. We motivate the discussion by presenting here some data on air pollution and the health losses attributable to air pollution in India. Air quality in Indian cities has been observed to be among the poorest in the world (WHO, 2018). Many Indian cities such as Kanpur,

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Srikanth

2021

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“…in). Vehicle transport, including flights, was suspended; factories and industrial activities ceased; people were allowed to leave their homes only in emergencies following social distancing (Dasgupta & Srikanth, 2020;Ghosh & Ghosh, 2020). Following the first lockdown, different lockdown stages were put in place, with subsequent relaxations based on the country's number of COVID-19-positive cases (Gouda et al, 2021).…”

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Influence of meteorology, mobility, air mass transport and biomass burning on PM2.5 of three north Indian cities: phase-wise analysis of the COVID-19 lockdown

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Dhanakumar²

2021

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we assessed the influence of meteorology, mobility, air mass transport, and biomass burning on PM 2.5 using Google's mobility data, back trajectory model, and satellite-based fire incident data. Average PM 2.5 concentrations in Ghaziabad, Noida, and Faridabad decreased by 60.70%, 63.27%, and 60.40%, respectively, during the lockdown. When compared with the preceding year (2019), the reductions during the shutdown period (25 March-31 May) were within the range of 36.34-44.55%. However, considering the entire year, this reduction in PM 2.5 is momentary, and a steady increase in traffic density and industrial operations within cities during post-lockdown reflects a potent recovery of aerosol level, during which the average mass of PM 2.5 three-to four-folds higher than the lockdown period. Back trajectories and fire activity results showed that biomass burning in the nearby states (Haryana and Punjab) influence aerosol load. We conclude that a partial lockdown in the event of a sudden surge in pollution would be a beneficial approach. However, reducing fossil fuel consumption and switching to more environmentally friendly energy sources, developing green transport networks, and circumventing biomass burning are efficient ways to improve air quality in the long term.

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“…Last year we witnessed COVID-19 pandemic which suppressed pollution in water [1,2] and air. [3,4] Despite the suppression in pollution level, health risk in COVID-19 period raised significantly for the air pollution sensitivity in human. This enhanced mortality in UK [5] US.…”

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The Adverse Effects of Estrogenic Pill Driven After Flexible Fertility on Environment in COVID-19 Situation

Sahoo¹

2021

Eng. Sci.

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The time comes now to really think about the national policy over contraceptive pill after COVID-19 mental depression. This planet might face an adverse effect on biodiversity after using such contraceptive pills. After preventing unwanted pregnancy, the consumed birth control pills pass from human to water system and start their undesirable second innings to suppress the fertility in aquatic lives, domestic or wild animals. Besides the aquatic lives, the presence of pill chemicals in urban and suburban water supplies can be boomeranged to innocent people. Thus, a considerable debate is raised in consequence on limit level concern but need to be stopped immediately to stop the infertility problem already, before COVID-19. In detail, steroidal estrogens at pollutant levels can develop breast cancer in women and prostate cancer in men. The steroidal estrogens at pollution level can suppress the growth of root flowering and germination. Ethinyl estradiol (EE2) is a synthetic estrogenic pill, which induces intersex in freshwater fish and caused significant drops in populations. It is the high time to retrospect the national policies on using the estrogenic pill.

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Reduced air pollution during COVID-19: Learnings for sustainability from Indian Cities

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Unbundling Air Pollution Concerns: A Closer Look at Socio-economic Factors

Unbundling Air Pollution Concerns: A Closer Look at Socio-economic Factors

Influence of meteorology, mobility, air mass transport and biomass burning on PM2.5 of three north Indian cities: phase-wise analysis of the COVID-19 lockdown

The Adverse Effects of Estrogenic Pill Driven After Flexible Fertility on Environment in COVID-19 Situation

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