Delhi has topped the list of the most polluted capital cities in the world in a recent study conducted by environment NGO Greenpeace and IQAir AirVisual.
New Delhi ranked first among 62 polluted capital cities in the report.
Gurugram in the National Capital Region (NCR) emerged as the most polluted city in the study. India has seven of the 10 cities with the worst pollution. Of the remaining three, two are in Pakistan and one in China.
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Air pollution, the report says, is estimated to contribute to 7 million premature deaths every year and is the greatest environmental risk to health today.
The report accompanies an extended online interactive display of the world’s most polluted cities, allowing further exploration of air quality across different regions and subregions in 2018, a statement from Greenpeace said.
“The real-time status of all included locations, together with many more, can also be explored through the IQAir AirVisual Air Quality Map, which brings together live air quality readings in one accessible place,” the NGO said.
According to NDTV, China has made a remarkable improvement since 2013, when its capital Beijing topped the pollution charts. Beijing ranks now as the 122nd most polluted city in the world in 2018.
The report measures the air quality in terms of PM 2.5 data as aggregated through the IQAir AirVisual platform in 2018, the NGO said.
(With PTI inputs)
