Across the five municipalities (Kavadarci, Strumica, Kumanovo, Gostivar and Struga), the clean air process moved deliberately from community prioritization to professional preparation.
Air pollution is often discussed in numbers — PM concentrations, emission levels, seasonal peaks. Yet public understanding of what these numbers mean, where pollution comes from, and who is responsible for reducing it remains uneven.
Across five municipalities, Strumica, Struga, Gostivar, Kavadarci and Kumanovo, clean air became a subject of structured civic dialogue within the project “Scaling up to tackle Air Pollution” , implemented by UNDP funded by Sweden.
There is light at the end of the tunnel or more fittingly put – a breath of fresh air in the gloom story of air pollution in North Macedonia, remarks Prof. Mirakovski.
Main goal of Source Apportionment (SA) study for Skopje Agglomeration was to derive information about pollution sources and the amount they contribute to ambient air pollution levels. Read more

