Air pollution monitoring in Manaus city (Amazonas, Brazil)
Channel: OPASRH
Date: 2016-05-10

The target 11.6 of the United Nations’s Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development focuses on air pollution in the cities. Manaus city is a populated industrial city located in the middle of the Amazon rain forest, the lung of the planet. The integrity of such a rain forest could reduce the effects of the greenhouse gases by clearing carbon dioxide from the atmoshere. The air pollution of Manaus city could affect the quality of a large area above the Amazon forest. The particulate matter of below 2.5 microns diameter (fine dust) is a major challenge for health. Thus, air pollution monitoring in Manaus city is an important task a multistakeholder partnership (University of the State of Amazonas, Federal University of Paraná, Federal University of Amazonas, National Institute of Amazon Researches and two Italian universities) has undertaken in order to support the accomplishment of the targets 11.6 and 13.2 (counteracting climate change) of the agenda 2030.