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| Demystifying India’s Smog Crisis |
| Siddharth Singh* |
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| India’s air quality crisis kills nearly a million of its citizens every year, and causes tremendous economic and social harm. This presentation, based on the scribe’s book The Great Smog of India (2018), talks about the various contributory sources of air pollution in India including industry, transport, agriculture, energy production, and so on. It discusses the linkages with climate change, and advocates for strong action on clean energy investments, as well as other measures to clean up India's air.
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Mr Siddharth Singh is an energy, mobility and climate policy expert. He was selected to be a German Chancellor Fellow in 2016-17 under the guardianship of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office. In the past, he has worked at the Wuppertal Institute in Berlin, Fridtjof Nansen Institute in Oslo and TERI in New Delhi. He has a graduate degree in international studies and diplomacy from SOAS, University of London. The Great Smog of India (2018) is his first book.
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