Anumita Roychowdhury on how important is vehicle pollution and alternative fuels

Published: May 4, 2020, 9 a.m.

In this episode we have a wonderful interviewee, she is the Executive Director at the Centre for Science and Environment in New Delhi, India. And we discussed how to bend the pollution curve, and the effects of Covid-19 on highly polluted cities.

The topics we covered were:

About How Pollution can kill us

  • The impact on our health in polluted cities.
  • Should we worry about vehicles when they’re responsible of only 20% of air pollution?

About Reducing Pollution

  • Can an alternative fuel in vehicles bend the pollution curve in one of the most polluted cities of the world?
  • What is the real impact of NGVs in India?

About Covid-19 plus pollution in India

  • How does the pollution levels look like in this massive worldwide experiment? What does data tells us about pollution an PM changes without activity?
  • Suggestions on what to do around the world amid this crisis to underscore the importance of enforcing air pollution regulations to protect human health, even after the crisis?


You can learn more about this episode and about Anumita visiting:
ricardocarmona.io/episode18