The dialogue aims at highlighting the process, requirements as well as gaps that still need to be addressed and filled by city and state governments in meeting the countdown to the National Clean Air Programme (NCAP).

The Webinar will begin with welcome remarks and an Introduction by Aarti Khosla, Director of Climate Trends followed by A Walk Through the Maharashtra City Action Plan Dashboard by the Climate Trends team and Urban Sciences team.

A panel discussion will follow regarding the status check of the action plans on the ground inclusive of gaps, hurdles as well as solutions by the webinar panel consisting of Maharashtra Pollution Joint Director (Air Quality) Dr VM Motghare, Prof. Abhishek Chakraborty from the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay, Mangesh Dighe from the Environment Office-Pune Municipal Corporation, Tanushree Ganguly Program Lead-Council on Energy-Environment and Water, Amit Singh-Program Lead, Institute for Sustainable Communities, Ronak Sutaria, Founder, Respirer Living Sciences. Thereafter, a moderated Q&A will follow.

The webinar will be held on Thursday, December 09 from 11:30 AM- 1:00 PM IST.