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Conference pledges to improve air quality
Agra, Dec 10 : A three-day international workshop to promote better air quality in Asian and Pacific Rim cities has concluded here with 650 experts from over 35 countries committing to bring down pollution levels in their respective regions... full story >>
Mega workshop on air quality in Asia begins
Agra, Dec 6 : An international workshop to improve air quality in Asia got off to a flying start here Monday, bringing together 650 experts from over 35 countries. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is supporting the Regional Workshop on Better Air Quality in Asian and Pacific Rim Cities at Jaypee Palace Hotel here... full story >>
Better Air Quality 2004 Held in India: 6-8 December 2004, Agra, India
VECC-SEPA What is New 15 Dec 2004
After a successful Better Air Quality (BAQ) 2003 workshop in December 2003 in Manila, Philippines, BAQ 2004 has taken place in Agra, India from the 6th to the 8th of December 2004. The event was jointly hosted by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF) and the Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities (CAI-Asia)... full story >>
Experts Meet to Promote Air Quality in Asia
December 6, 2004
Increasingly, government and experts have realised that air quality cannot be improved in isolation from its socio-economic context. This will be one of the main issues for discussion as experts from more than 35 countries today gather together in Agra for the ADB-supported 4th Regional Workshop on Better Air Quality (BAQ) 2004.... full story >>
Environment experts to attend workshop in India
Dawn The Internet Edition 03 Dec 2004
KARACHI, Dec 2: Pakistani environmentalists and government agencies may develop working relationships with Indian conservationists and experts for the improvement of air quality in major cities of the country, including Karachi , said the Adviser to the Chief Minister on Environment and Alternate Energy, Noman Saigol, on Thursday.
Speaking at a press briefing at his office, the adviser said that he and other high officials of the provincial and federal environment agencies were leaving shortly for India to attend a "Better Air Quality (BAQ) 2004" workshop at Agra from December 6 to 8.... full story >>
2004 Better Air Quality Meeting Approaches
HEI Update Fall 2004
As part of its Public Health and Air Pollution in Asia (PAPA) program, HEI is organizing several events for the largest air quality management meeting in Asia: Better Air Quality (BAQ). The fourth annual meeting will take place from December 6 to 8, 2004,in Agra, India, home of the Taj Mahal—one of the most revered shrines in India that also faces serious damage from air pollution. read PDF >>
Workshop told Dhaka, Colombo most polluted cities in Asia
The Independent. 16 Dec 2004
UNB, DHAKA
A regional workshop held in India has declared Dhaka and the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo as the most polluted cities among 22 Asian mega cities in the current year. full story >>
Choking on Growth
Time Asia Magazine December 13, 2004 / Vol. 164, No. 24
Jan Morris, writing in her 1988 book on Hong Kong, describes Victoria Peak, the island's highest point, as a place where "the hills of Guangdong stand blue in the distance ... you see the city itself precipitously below you. The early sun catches the windows of Kowloon across the water." But if you had visited the Peak on Sept. 14, when Hong Kong experienced a record-breaking day of air pollution, you would have seen a view that was little more than a smudge. The skyscrapers could be glimpsed only through a veil of noxious smog, sunlight did not glint from windows and as for the hills of Guangdong—they were left entirely to an onlooker's imagination. full story >>
Pollution in Asia is chocking the planet
9 December, 2004 INDIA - ASIA
Agra (AsiaNews/Agencies) – A cloud of pollution in the skies across Asia is travelling across the Indian Ocean and is now threatening to make the entire planet a drier place, experts warned yesterday at a meeting in Agra (Uttar Pradesh).
"There is a nexus between local air pollution and global climate change," Mylvakanam Iyngararasan, senior programme specialist for the United Nations Environment Programme, told the annual 'Better Air Quality' conference. full story >>
Pollution casts Asian haze over global climate
The Peninsula. Web posted at: 12/9/2004 1:21:41
Source ::: AFP
AGRA: A cloud of pollution which has been identified in the skies across Asia travels long distances across the Indian Ocean and is now threatening to make the entire planet a drier place, experts warned yesterday.
"There is a nexus between local air pollution and global climate change," Mylvakanam Iyngararasan, senior programme specialist for the United Nations Environment Programme, told the annual "Better Air Quality" conference at a meeting in the home of the Taj Mahal. full story >>
Air pollution casts haze over Asia
Galaxy Science Health and Environment. Posted by special arrangement
A cloud of pollution, which has been identified in the skies across Asia, travels long distances across the Indian Ocean and is now threatening to make the entire planet a drier place, experts warned recently...
"There is a nexus between local air pollution and global climate change," Mylvakanam Iyngararasan, senior programme specialist for the United Nations Environment Programme told the annual 'Better Air Quality' conference at a meeting in Agra - the home of the Taj Mahal. Research suggests that there will be a large drying-out effect from the air pollution we see now. Harmful chemicals, aerosols and other pollutants impact cloud formation. India has experienced severe droughts in the last few years. full story >>
Air pollution casts Asian haze over global climate
Times of Oman. Thursday, December 09, 2004
AGRA — A cloud of pollution which has been identified in the skies across Asia travels long distances across the Indian Ocean and is now threatening to make the entire planet a drier place, experts warned yesterday.
"There is a nexus between local air pollution and global climate change," Mylvakanam Iyngararasan, senior programme specialist for the United Nations Environment Programme, told the annual 'Better Air Quality' conference at a meeting in the home of the Taj Mahal. full story >>
Delhi air Asia's most polluted
Sonu Jain, Delhi Newsline
Agra, December 8: This is not going to come as a surprise. New Delhi tops the grim pollution charts released by a World Bank and Asian Development Bank joint study of air pollution for 20 major Asian cities between 2000 and 2003. Mumbai and Kolkata are also in the top 10 defaulters. full story >>
Study finds high air pollution levels in Asian cities
Aarti Dhar, The Hindu, 08/12/2004
AGRA, DEC. 7. Estimates made by the World Health Organisation (WHO) suggest that the impact of outdoor air pollution in Asian cities is substantial and warrants the attention of policy-makers. According to a WHO report, each year urban air pollution contributes to approximately 800,000 deaths and 4.6 million lost life-years. This burden, however, is not equally distributed: about two-thirds of the deaths and lost life-years occur in the developing countries of Asia.
The Health Effects Institute (HEI), a Boston-based organisation, supported by the United Nations Environment Programme, also carried out a study on "Health Effects of Outdoor Air Pollution in Developing Countries of Asia," and the findings were released at the Better Air Quality (BAQ 2004) conference here. full story >>
Asian air quality improving: ADB
www.chinaview.cn 2004-12-07 20:19:09
MANILA, Dec. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- Contrary to a US media report lately,Asia's air quality is improving by some measures instead of worsening, a senior ADB official told the opening session of the ADB-supported Better Air Quality (BAQ) 2004 conference in India on Monday, according to an ADB news release Tuesday. full story >>
Air pollution causes five million deaths each year in India: minister
Mon Dec 6, 2:48 PM ET South Asia - AFP
AGRA, India (AFP) - As many as five million deaths are caused by air pollution every year in India, the country's junior Environment and Forest Minister Namo Narayan Meena said.
A police van causing pollution in New Delhi. As many as five million deaths are caused by air pollution every year in India, the country's junior Environment and Forest Minister Namo Narayan Meena said.(AFP/Raveendran )
"The air quality has been threatened to alarming levels in several cities in India," Meena told the annual "Better Air Quality" conference. full story >>
Asian nations seek pollution solutions from Colombia
2004-12-10 / Taiwan News, Staff Reporter / By Uttara Choudhury
Enrique Penalosa, a former mayor of the Colombian capital, told delegates to a Better Air Quality conference in the Indian city of Agra that Asia could learn from one of the most violent drug-ridden cities in the world. full story >>
Think alternative fuel - think bio-diesel
[Technology India]: Agra, Dec 12 : Bio-diesel will soon emerge as a viable alternative fuel if ongoing vehicular experiments prove successful, say experts. full story >>
Asia looks to South America for solutions to pollution
The Peninsula. Web posted at: 12/11/2004 1:51:16
Source ::: AFP
AGRA: Colombia may conjure up images of drug running and endemic corruption, but for many Asian cities its capital Bogota could offer lessons on how to better manage mass transport and cut choking air pollution.
Enrique Penalosa, a former mayor of the Colombian capital, told delegates to a Better Air Quality conference in Agra that Asia could learn from one of the most violent drug-ridden cities in the world. full story >>
Follow Bogota model to reduce India's urban pollution
[India News]: Agra, Dec 9 : India should follow the Bogoto (Colombia) model of public transport systems to reduce urban air pollution in its metro cities, participants at an international conference here said. full story >>
Bus rapid transport systems making inroads in Asia
Brazil Sun
Wednesday 8th December, 2004
At a time when many of Asia's cities are choking from the mass of vehicles on the roads, bus rapid transport (BRT) systems offer one relatively affordable, clean, and sustainable solution to urban pollution and public transport snarl-ups, according to an ADB official. full story >>
Bogota traffic-stopper says walk, don't drive
Sonu Jain, Delhi Newsline
New Delhi, December 4: WHEN Enrique Penalosa, former Mayor of Bogota, talks about the traffic in Indian cities, you have to sit up and listen. In his three-year stint, he transformed the chaotic urban conglomerate that Bogota was into a city of plazas and parks.
He has been invited to every international forum and institution, including Harvard, to share his vision. He was in Delhi on his way to Agra as keynote speaker for the fourth 'Better Air Quality' conference. It's the largest this year to discuss how to manage air quality problems in Asian and Pacific rim countries. full story >>
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