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Air Quality, Public Health and the Mobility Crisis in our Cities Understanding urban vehicular congestion and pollution and the ways to cope with it CSE Office, Core 6 A, Fourth Floor India Habitat Centre New Delhi May 29-30, 2008 Most cities in India are stuck in a logjam: growing traffic congestion and air pollution generated by vehicles has become a vexed and critical problem. This has grim environmental repercussions that set off staggering health and economic fall-outs, affecting tens of millions of people. Your city, in all probability, is not an exception. As a burgeoning vehicle population threatens to swamp our urban centres, residents and visitors alike are left reeling from a daily intake of a variety of noxious pollutants and particles. At the same time, their travel experience has become more cumbersome and time-taking. Air quality and congestion management as an issue, therefore, demands urgent understanding, reportage and public debate – and solutions through a national policy. Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) invites you to a two-day media briefing workshop in New Delhi to discuss, debate and understand the issues and the solutions thereof (such as the BRT system currently under trial in Delhi). Key experts will explain and demystify the science and subject of air pollution and congestion. Be it fuel quality or adulteration; pollutants, respirable suspended particulate matter or toxic emissions; maintenance of in-use vehicles, vehicular technology or transportation policy; and the critical importance of public transport. The workshop is expected to encourage greater understanding and clearer reportage by getting behind the realpolitik. Eligibility requirements and registration procedure The Workshop is open for active journalists from India. To register, just send us an e-mail or a fax, along with a copy of your CV, by May 15. The Workshop offers limited seats; please register immediately. We have the resources to support the travel and lodging of a few outstation candidates on a first-come, first-served basis.
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