Air quality will be improved in Kyiv

Air quality will be improved in Kyiv

Katerina Belousova

This will make it possible to evenly distribute observation points throughout the city and receive comprehensive information about the state of the air in Kyiv

The Kyiv City Council supported the State Monitoring Program in the field of atmospheric air protection in the city, which will expand the existing monitoring network and contribute to the improvement of air quality.

Within 4 years, the number of high-precision atmospheric air monitoring points will be increased from the existing 5 to 17, Oleksandr Vozniy, head of the Department of Ecology and Natural Resources of the KMDA, reports on Facebook.

He explained that the Program will allow developing a number of measures to improve air quality in the future.

Vozniy emphasized that the increase in atmospheric air monitoring points will make it possible to evenly distribute observation points throughout the city and receive comprehensive information on the state of atmospheric air in Kyiv on an ongoing basis.

"The next step will be to analyze data and develop plans to improve air quality in the capital," he said.

Vozniy noted that there is currently a network of 5 European-style reference (high-precision) air quality monitoring points operating in Kyiv. Similar installations operate in London, Paris, Munich and other European cities.

Such points automatically measure content:

  • dust in three fractions (PM1.0, PM2.5 and PM10);
  • nitrogen dioxide;
  • sulfur dioxide;
  • carbon monoxide;
  • ammonia;
  • surface ozone;
  • hydrogen sulfide;
  • formaldehyde;
  • meteorological indicators.

Vozny emphasized that all data is recorded every minute, stored on the server and displayed in a convenient format on the website asm.kyivcity.gov.ua.

He also said that the Program was developed in accordance with the Cabinet of Ministers' resolution and on the instructions of Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klychko.

As EcoPolitic reported before, in Kyiv they integrated official data from the city's air quality monitoring system on the international platform of the IQAir company. For a long time, information about air quality in Kyiv was transmitted to the site from several anonymous sources, which affected its objectivity.

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