Open biomass burning (OBB) is a significant source of air pollutants, profoundly impacting regional air quality and global climate change. However, due to the lack of high-resolution burned area products, limited biomass data resolution, and inappropriate emission factors (EFs), current OBB emission inventories have significant uncertainties. In this study, we integrated the FireCCI51 burned area ...

This study presents an emission inventory (EI) for major anthropogenic sources of Indonesia in 2007 and 2010. The EI was developed using a combination of top-down and bottom-up approaches with comprehensive activity data collected at the provincial/district level to produce spatially and temporally distributed emission of toxic pollutants and greenhouse gases (GHGs). The sources were categorized i...

The Global database of household air pollution measurements, commissioned by WHO, provides an overview of methods and results from studies reporting household air pollution measurements. This database currently contains measurements from 196 studies from 43 countries. This database is useful for understanding the range of household and outdoor air pollution measurements that have been taken in a c...

Hazardous air pollution poses significant health and economic challenges for Nepal. Air pollution raises public health concerns in Nepal, particularly in the country’s two geographic hotspots: the Kathmandu Valley and the Terai (southern plain areas bordering India). In these two areas, the annual average particulate matter (PM) (i.e. PM of less than 2.5 micrometers in diameter, which is the most ...

Low- and middle-income countries have the largest health burdens associated with air pollution exposure, and are particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts. Substantial opportunities have been identified to simultaneously improve air quality and mitigate climate change due to overlapping sources of greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions and because a subset of pollutants, short-lived cl...

Air Benefit and Cost and Attainment Assessment System” (ABaCAS) is an integrated assessment system that connects air pollution emissions control and costs with air quality benefits, health and economic impacts, and air quality attainment tests. Developed jointly by an international team of scientists and U.S. EPA, ABaCAS is designed to provide researchers and policy makers with a user-friendly fra...

The Uttar Pradesh Clean Air Program (UCAP) presents an in-depth technical understanding of sources and causes of air pollution across Uttar Pradesh (UP) through application of a more comprehensive lens following an airshed based approach considering both primary and secondary sources of PM2.5. It has been based on a first state emission inventory that has been developed as inputs for modeling and ...

Air pollution is no longer just an environmental concern. It’s a growing business risk and a key component of corporate climate strategies. From evolving regulations to increasing stakeholder expectations, companies are under pressure to understand, measure and reduce air pollutant emissions across their operations and value chains. Yet, many organizations face challenges in integrating air pollut...

The Air Pollution Footprint Tool was developed by Ricardo to support organisations and private companies calculating air pollutant emissions linked to their activities. The tool is designed to make use of data that companies are likely to have already collected and used to report their greenhouse gases emissions. The tool covers emissions of NOx, PM10 and PM2.5 from three sectors: road transp...

The World Bank’s flagship report, "Waste Management in the Middle East and North Africa," reveals that the region currently generates over 155 million tons of waste each year, a figure projected to nearly double to 294 million tons by 2050. Poor waste management costs the region around US$7.2 billion each year in environmental damage. Food waste alone causes US$60 billion in losses, in a region wh...