CADTIME: Clean Air for Delhi Through Interventions, Mitigations and Engagement

“通过干预、缓解和参与为德里清洁空气”（CADTIME）项目旨在了解在我们控制的因素范围内，通过考虑和应对未来变化的负担得起的有效干预措施，需要做些什么才能显著降低空气污染水平。CADTIME汇集了来自印度和英国各地的机构和专家组成的联盟，目的是解决影响德里人民健康的空气质量问题。这一目标将通过制定综合行动计划（IAP）来实现，该计划将详细说明缓解城市和周边地区空气污染的战略和潜在干预措施。IAP将基于对德里国内、交通、工业和农业部门目前造成空气污染的因素的充分了解，以及对这些部门在短期、中期和长期内将如何变化的预测。该计划只有通过政府机构、地方利益攸关方的贡献以及与广大民众的合作才能实现。利用讲习班、焦点小组和广泛协商将确保拟议的战略切合实际、界定明确、目标明确并注意到技术和社会制约因素。最重要的是，战略在经济上是可行的，在环境上是可持续的。它们还将具有远见卓识和跨领域性，包括政治、技术和行为变革。CADTIME项目预计将运行48个月。该项目的初始阶段将涉及开发建模工具，例如整理排放清单和扩散模型，以及收集有关城市和区域内当前缓解政策和最佳做法的信息。该联盟的国际性将为两国的学者和研究人员提供一个相互学习的黄金机会。在项目的后期阶段，随着IAP的定义和形成，与利益相关者的合作将脱颖而出。将尽可能注意确保为德里制定的战略也适用于次大陆的其他主要城市地区。除了德里，CADTIME财团还包括马德拉斯和孟买的印度理工学院。最终，CADTIME项目的受益者将是印度人民和政府，因为它减轻了空气质量给他们造成的健康不良负担。

The Clean Air for Delhi Through Interventions, Mitigations and Engagement (CADTIME) project aims to understand what is required to deliver significant reductions in levels of air pollution, within the confines of factors which are under our control, through affordable, effective interventions that consider and respond to future changes.CADTIME brings together a consortium of institutions and experts from across both India and the United Kingdom with the goal of addressing air quality issues that affect people's health in Delhi. This goal will be achieved through the development of an Integrated Action Plan (IAP), detailing strategies and potential interventions for mitigating air pollution in both the city, and surrounding region. The IAP will be based on development of a sound understanding of the current contributing factors to air pollution across the domestic, transport, industrial and agricultural sectors, for Delhi, as well as forecasting of how those sectors will change across the short, medium and long terms. The plan can only be realised through the contributions of government agencies, local stakeholders and collaboration with population at large. The use of workshops, focus groups and extensive consultation will ensure that proposed strategies are realistic, clearly defined, well targeted and mindful of technological and social constraints. Above all strategies will be economically viable and environmentally sustainable. They will also be far-thinking and cross-cutting, embracing political, technological and behavioural change. The CADTIME project is envisaged to run over a 48-month period. Initial stages of the project will involve the development of modelling tools, such as collating emissions inventories and dispersion models, as well as the collection of information on current policies and best practice for mitigation within the city and region. The international nature of the consortium will allow a golden opportunity for academics and researchers from both nations to learn from each other. Latter stages of the project will see collaboration with stakeholders coming to the fore, as the IAP takes definition and shape. Care will be taken to ensure that, wherever possible, the strategies defined for Delhi will also have relevance to other major urban areas in the sub-continent. In addition to Delhi, the CADTIME consortium includes the Indian Institutes of Technology of Madras and Bombay. Ultimately, the beneficiaries of the CADTIME project will be the Indian People and Government through a reduction in the burden of ill health that is inflicted upon them by air quality.