Volume 104, 4th November 2020 (B.E. 2563)
Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, opening
“Center for Air Pollution Mitigration (CAPM)”
To prepare for particulate matter situation (PM2.5) in crisis periods
H.E. Varawut Silpa-archa, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment opened the Centre for Air Pollution Mitigation (CAPM) and gave a press release with Mr. Jatuporn Buruspat, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) and the chief executive of MNRE at MNRE building.
Mr. Varawut Silpa-archa, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment revealed that Center for Air Pollution Mitigration (CAPM) is a mechanism under the Subcommittee on communication of the solution on air pollution problems chaired by Permanent Secretary of the Office of the Prime Minister. CAPM has duties to monitor surveillance and collect data from networking air quality monitoring stations in accordance with the standard method and report to the public; follow the information on traffic flow, meteorological condition, air quality monitoring data, hotspots in forest areas, evaluate and report particulate matter PM2.5 by satellite; make public notification by applying technologies of forecasting particulate matter from 3 days in order to warn people to prepare and prevent health impact; and integrate with relevant agencies in solving air pollution under the Action Plan for driving National Agenda on “Pollution Problem Management (Particulate Matter)” in War Room pattern. Thus, all concerned agencies have to strictly resolve the problem in order to make the situation back to normal immediately.
Pollution Control Department (PCD) still reports a situation on PM2.5 and inform an information to the concerned agencies to control, monitor and regulate continually according to measure under Action Plan for driving National Agenda in order to alleviate PM2.5 situation to normal. People can follow up real time air quality situation at website: Air4Thai.pcd.go.th, application: Air4Thai and http://bangkokairquality.com
