Abstract:

The growing urban development has a major implication of severe air pollution in many large Asian cities which lead to serious health problem. Urban air pollution is considered as one of great contributors to greenhouse gases emissions as oftenly there is sectors overlap between the sources. The project is aiming to link the air pollution control activities to climate change mitigation activities, where it could, concurrently, addressing poverty alleviation and creation of healthier environment.

The correlation between measures to prevail over urban air pollution and climate change mitigation will give an opportunity to have funds in financing air pollutant reducing projects which at once reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The opportunity could imply specific sectors: transport, energy, housholds and industry which will be thoroughly identified in the second phase of the project.

Study will be performed in four Asian cities, to include Bangkok, Bangalore, Jakarta and Jinan the severity, physical causes (and the sectors responsible), and health and economic impacts of air pollution. This study will then be related to the existing policy in each city, mainly to evaluate the effects of policies and whether they have addressed correlating problems sufficiently. It shall also cover any measures taken by cities in responding to urban air pollution problems.

By reviewing policies and measures in four large cities and for the specific case of air pollution and climate change, we will show that local authorities can reach better policy impact when air pollution and climate change mitigation strategies are combined.

Presentation: http://www.cleanairnet.org/baq2006/1757/docs/SW11_2.ppt