Workshop on Heat & Air Pollution in India: Evidence, Impacts, and Solutions - A Stakeholder Dialogue 18 March 2025 (Delhi)
The COPE project is organising a workshop for stakeholders in Delhi 18 March to share their insights related to exposure and health impacts from concurrent extreme heat and air pollution in Delhi.
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India faces increasingly frequent and intense heatwaves, disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations. Simultaneously, severe air pollution continues to degrade public health. Effective forecasting and mitigation strategies are critical to protect human health from the combined impacts of heat and air pollution. Our new research project, COPE (Combined impact of heat and air pollution exposure on human health in India: Evidence and solutions (COPE), funded by the Belmont Forum aims to address these topics by focusing on assessing exposure and health impacts from concurrent extreme heat and air pollution in Delhi and Kolkata while also working to develop and enhance early warning and decision support systems to address this challenge.
The COPE project team welcomes Delhi stakeholders to share their insights on the planned research and actively participate in shaping the implementation of an early warning system, aimed at reducing health risks from heat and air pollution for Delhi residents. We aim for the workshop to include a broad representation of different sectors, industries, public and private organizations from the Delhi area.
Invited participants may attend the one-day stakeholders’ workshop, hosted by the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi; CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Oslo; the National Center for Atmospheric Research; Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology; and SwitchON. The workshop will be held on March 18, 2025 from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm at R&I Park, D Block, 3rd Floor, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (in place of Senate Hall, IIT Delhi), Hauz Khas, New Delhi, Delhi 110016, India.
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For more information on the COPE project: https://www.cicero.oslo.no/en/projects/cope
To register for the workshop, please visit this website: Event registration form
The registration deadline is March 7, 2025.
For any questions regarding the workshop or the Belmont Forum-funded COPE project, please contact Kristin Aunan (kristin.aunan@cicero.oslo.no), Sourangsu Chowdhury (sourangsu.chowdhury@cicero.oslo.no), or Sagnik Dey (sagnik@cas.iitd.ac.in).