{"id":110466,"date":"2021-03-17T12:08:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T12:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=110466"},"modified":"2021-03-17T12:08:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T12:08:09","slug":"air-quality-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/air-quality-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Air quality in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question- \u20182020 World Air Quality report\u2019 is recently released by-<\/strong><br>(a) IQAir<br>(b) WHO<br>(c) WEF<br>(d) Air quality index<br><strong>Ans. (a)<br>Related Facts-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The report is prepared by Swiss organisation, IQAir, in the form of the &#8216;World Air Quality Report, 2020&#8217;, which has released globally.<\/li><li>Twenty-two of the world&#8217;s 30 most polluted cities are in India, with Delhi being ranked as the most polluted capital city globally, the report said.<\/li><li>It said that despite the improvement, Delhi ranked as the 10th most polluted city and the top polluted capital city in the world.<\/li><li>The report, however, shows that Delhi\u2019s air quality improved by approximately 15% from 2019 to 2020.<\/li><li>As per the report, the top most polluted city is Xinjiang in China followed by nine Indian cities.<\/li><li>Ghaziabad is the second most polluted city in the world followed by Bulandshahar, Bisrakh Jalalpur, Noida, Greater Noida, Kanpur, Lucknow and Bhiwari.<\/li><li>The global cities ranking report is based on PM2.5 data from 106 countries, which is measured by ground-based monitoring stations, most of which is operated by government agencies.<\/li><li>Major sources of India\u2019s air pollution include transportation, biomass burning for cooking, electricity generation, industry, construction, waste burning and episodic agricultural burning.<\/li><li>The transportation sector is one of the major contributors to India&#8217;s leading PM2.5 emission sources across cities,\u201d the report said.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By- Yogesh Pratap Singh<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reference-<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iqair.com\/world-air-quality-report.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.iqair.com\/world-air-quality-report.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question- \u20182020 World Air Quality report\u2019 is recently released by-(a) IQAir(b) WHO(c) WEF(d) Air quality indexAns. (a)Related Facts- The report is prepared by Swiss organisation, IQAir, in the form of the &#8216;World Air Quality Report, 2020&#8217;, which has released globally. Twenty-two of the world&#8217;s 30 most polluted cities are in India, with Delhi being ranked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":110467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[7430],"class_list":["post-110466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne","tag-international___en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110468,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110466\/revisions\/110468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}