Dhaka, May 16 -- Speakers at a policy breakfast Thursday underscored the need for enactment of a Clean Air Act and inclusion of certain standards on air pollutants from power plants in the 2022 Air Pollution Control Rules.

They also called for effective administrative mechanisms and public-private partnerships with accountability in renewable energy financing.

Clean air is not a luxury -- it is a constitutional right, they said.

The policy breakfast titled "Revisiting Energy Policies for Ensuring Clean Air" was jointly organised by the Center for Atmospheric Pollution Studies (CAPS), Bangladesh Institute of Planners (BIP), and the Center for Participatory Research and Development (CPRD) at the conference hall of the BIP in the city.

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