Six Takeaways from Indore’s New Air Quality Monitoring Stations

Publicly available air quality data is an essential first step toward cleaner air and better health. Research around the world shows that pollution levels can vary enormously within the same city and even within the same neighborhood. Local monitoring data can thus prove essential to understanding air pollution sources, how they affect different communities and groups, and where to target policy solutions. That’s why Clean Air Catalyst launched three air quality monitoring stations in Indore in January 2023. These new capabilities are equipping Indore’s leaders and residents to reveal this largely invisible threat like never before. The Catalyst published a report earlier this year analyzing the 2023 data collected by its three new stations, in addition to data from a fourth continuous monitoring station set up by the Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board in 2019. In this blog, authors break down six of the most fascinating insights found in the report—and what they can tell us about ways to alleviate Indore’s air pollution.