Orientation programme on Managing Urban Air Quality: Focus on Clean Vehicle Technology and Fuels

Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is organising a three-day orientation programme on Managing Urban Air Quality: Focus on Clean Vehicle Technology and Fuels at New Delhi from March 19 - 21, 2013. This programme represents our initiative to promote good regulatory practices in air quality management, clean vehicle technology, fuels and management of in-use vehicle fleet and mobility management. It aims to deepen the understanding of issues of challenges of air pollution and its sources, their relative contribution, mitigation strategies, air quality management and governance, challenges and solutions for clean and safe vehicle technology and fuels, management of in-use vehicle fleet and transit traffic in order to meet the combined objectives of public health, energy security, mobility management and climate mitigation.

Course content

  • Pollution challenge of urbanisation

  • Understanding air quality, trends and monitoring in Indian cities

  • Why vehicles are a special challenge?

  • Meeting national ambient air quality standards

  • Vehicle technology and clean fuel roadmap

  • Gaseous fuel programmes – emissions and safety management

  • Challenges of in-use vehicles and transit traffic

  • Vehicle inspection system in India and ways to improve it

  • Mobility management

 

Programme schedule

Date: March 19 - 21, 2013

Venue: Centre for Science and Environment
             41, Tughlakabad Institutional Area
             New Delhi – 110062

Time: 10 am to 5 pm daily

Last date of registration: March 15, 2013

 
For more details and registration, kindly email at priyanka@cseindia.org

Course contact:

Priyanka Chandola
Centre for Science and Environment
41, Tughlakabad Institutional Area
New Delhi – 110062
Tel: 011 – 29955124
      9810414938 (Mobile)
Fax: 011 - 29955879
Email: priyanka@cseindia.org