Blueair and Children's Climate Prize earlier this year announced the launch of a new Clean Air Prize. The prize, 100.000 SEK, has been awarded to Nav and Vihaan Agarwal, aged 12 and 15, for their organisation One Step Greener, which by striving for a zero-waste future, aims to reduce air pollution and improve health and wellbeing of people in Delhi, the world’s most polluted city.
Swedish air purification expert Blueair and Indian child right’s organisation CRY, have launched an ambitious initiative to improve the respiratory health of children across Delhi, one of the most polluted cities in the world. Health check-up camps for more 3500 children and air purifiers in community centers across the city are the first steps.
In the wake of recent research highlighting the negative effects of air pollution on children’s mental and physical health, Blueair, a world-leader in air purification solutions, today launched ‘Blueair Champions’, a nation-wide awareness-raising campaign targeting 1 million children in India.
During his two-day state visit to Sweden, 16-17 April, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with the Swedish King, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven and the Swedish business community to discuss issues such as innovation, sustainable development and how Swedish–Indian relations can be further strengthened.
Blueair has made an immediate donation of 200 Blueair air purifiers that will benefit the lives of around 10,000 school children in schools across Delhi, the Indian capital. Going forward, Blueair is studying ways to make the program sustainable by encouraging like-minded corporations interested in improving the health of school children to partner in joint air pollution battling programs.
Blueair, the world’s leading provider of indoor air purifying technologies and appliances, today officially launched its operations throughout India. The foray sees Blueair launch a comprehensive range of its acclaimed indoor air purifiers that can enhance health and wellbeing at home and work by removing most known airborne contaminants such as PM2.5 dust, viruses, chemicals, smoke and bad odors.