Since yesterday, a northerly wind has swept into the region, and as a result, our 181 sensors are visibly showing a significant improvement in air quality. Significant to the extent that it is comparable to summer figures. Yesterday morning it was 29-30, today PM 2 is 65.8. Sirarpi Haykazyan, Acting Head of the Environmental Protection Department of the Yerevan Municipality, said about this during the procedural consultation of the Yerevan Municipality: "We are not satisfied with the fact that there is a cyclone or an anticyclone, at the meeting of the Council of Elders we will present additional changes to two decisions of the Council of Elders to reduce emissions from man-made sources.
One referred to Council Resolution 405 N, and additional restrictions will apply to construction sites. The second is the additional changes in the decision of the 48 N Council of Elders. they are mandatory improvement norms, which we will make applicable to mines as well," he said.
Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinyan responded that the construction in the city was not stopped, the operation of cars was not banned in the city, thousands of hectares of new green areas were not created, then he concluded.
"Dear citizens of Yerevan, in fact the air quality problem in Yerevan is largely due to air inversion, climatic conditions and our geographical location, but as Mrs. Haykazyan rightly points out, we have certain levers to influence the air quality at least to some extent, and in this respect all the works that are being done will have a certain impact.
As far as global change is concerned, we should continue to look at large-scale landscaping outside of Yerevan, if only to create some sort of barrier to the winds that bring that smog, that air into the city.
I am saying something very difficult, but I think it is feasible, and we should work in that direction."
