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Webinar on Air Quality Management in Malé Declaration Countries During COVID-19: Current Status, Challenges, and Opportunities

17-Dec-2020- 26-Jul-2021
Online

​The Malé Declaration on Control and Prevention of Air Pollution and Its Likely Transboundary Effects for South Asia (Malé Declaration) has successfully organized a webinar on the “Air Quality Management in Malé Declaration Countries During COVID-19: Current Status, Challenges, and Opportunities” on 17 December 2020. The webinar was an avenue for the Malé Declaration member countries to share their expertise, experiences, challenges, and opportunities in air quality management in their country during the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 50 participants from the member countries of the Malé Declaration, namely, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran, Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka, and others participated in the webinar. The participants included representatives from the National Focal Points (NFPs) and the National Implementation Agencies (NIAs) of the Malé Declaration member countries, academic institutions (AIT, IIT, NIT, Univ. of Malaysia, Univ. of Dhaka), and the UNEP. A representative from each member country of the Malé Declaration delivered an elaborative and informative presentation on the current status, challenges, and opportunities in air quality management in their country during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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