5th Annual Roundtable Consultation | Addressing India’s Air Pollution Challenge

This event is hosted by AirQualityAsia (AQA) and ORF.

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Against the background of air pollution in Northern India, these roundtable consultations started in 2017 at the initiative of Shashi Tharoor, MP, Board Member, AirQualityAsia, and is an annual gathering of elected representatives, air quality experts, civil society stakeholders and industry leaders and seeks to develop solutions to mitigate India’s crisis of poor air quality. The deliberations in this 5th edition will focus on key narratives within this pressing development challenge, including:

1. Financing the Transition to Green Economy
2. Transition to Renewable Energy
3. Transition to Clean Air Transportation System
4. Inter-State Coordination for Air Quality Management

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Programme

26 February

7:00 – 7:30 p.m. | Welcome Note | Matthew J. Nolan, Sunjoy Joshi and Shashi Tharoor 7:30 – 8:00 p.m. | Inaugural Address | Nitin Gadkari 8:00 – 8:45 p.m. | In-Conversation | Priyanka Chaturvedi, Amar Patnaik, Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Shashi Tharoor (moderator)

27 February

9:30 – 9:40 a.m. | Role of Parliamentarians in UN SDGs 2030 for Clean Air | Shazia Z. Rafi 9:45 – 10:40 a.m. | Panel 1: Financing the Transition to Green Economy | Jayant Sinha, Suranjali Tandon, Kushagra Srivastava, Renita D'Souza and Nilanjan Ghosh (moderator) 11:00 – 11:45 a.m. | Panel 2: Transition to Renewable Energy | Satya Widya Yudha, Sandhya Sundararagavan, Vibhuti Garg, Disha Agarwal and Shailly Kedia (moderator) 12:00 – 12:45 p.m. | Panel 3: Transition to Clean Air Transportation System | Anup Bandivadekar, Akshima Ghate, Promit Mookherjee and Aishwarya Raman (moderator) 1:00 – 1:45 p.m. | Panel 4: Inter-State Coordination for Air Quality Management | Abhishek Kumar, Mohammad Jawed, Anumita Roychowdhury and Tanushree Ganguly (moderator) 3:00 – 3:10 p.m. | Keynote Address | Sumant Sinha 3:10 – 3:20 | Concluding Remarks | Shamika Ravi and Harry Duynhoven

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