World Bank on 18 April 2025 established Pollution Management and Environmental Health (PHEM) program. The program was officially launched on Global Citizen 2015 Earth Day in Washington, D.C.
Union Ministry of Environment on announced to launch National Air Quality Index in April 2015. The National Air Quality Index is a simple, composite, and easy to understand measure of air quality.
A new study authored by Michael Greenstone, director of Energy Policy Institute at Chicago, with prominent economists and public policy experts from Yale and Harvard University, has concluded that almost 660 million people, which is half of India’s population, could add 3.2 years to their lifespan if air quality met the national safe standard.
US announced that it is going to start monitoring India’s air quality in order to protect its staff on mission and American visitors, and to raise awareness in India about the runaway pollution that is bringing the country adverse attention across the world.
