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...

What a Waste is a global project to aggregate data on solid waste management from around the world. This database features statistics collected through the effort, covering 217 countries and 262 cities. The metrics included cover all steps across the waste management value chain, including waste generation, composition, collection, and treatment & disposal, as well as information on waste work...

The world is at a critical juncture in managing its mounting volumes of waste. Rapid population growth, accelerating urbanization, rising incomes, and increased consumption are driving a surge in municipal solid waste generation that is outpacing the capacity of local systems and municipal budgets. Cities and communities worldwide are struggling to keep up.Within this crisis lies an opportunity. B...

REACH (Rapid Estimation of Air Concentrations for Health) is a regional-scale model designed for air quality policy assessment. The main outputs of REACH are ambient PM2.5 concentrations and a policy impact metric (PM2.5 mortalities/tonne). The model is easily portable to different regions and allows for flexibility in adjusting the spatial resolution and input data. To alleviate data constraints,...

BenMAP-CE is an open-source computer program that calculates the number and economic value of air pollution-related deaths and illnesses. The software incorporates a database that includes many of the concentration-response relationships, population files, and health and economic data needed to quantify these impacts.BenMAP-CE enables users to load their own data or use pre-loaded datasets for the...

The BenMAP-CE tool estimates the number and economic value of heath impacts resulting from changes in air quality - specifically, ground-level ozone and fine particles.How does BenMAP-CE estimate health impacts?A health impact function incorporates four key sources of data: BenMAP-CE uses "health impact functions" that are constructed using information from the published epidemiology literature.mo...

The industrial sector is indispensable for the economic development of nations. Given its economic significance and environmental impact, it is fundamental that ministries of environment and competent authorities have access to technical tools that strengthen their capacity for regulation, oversight, and guidance of the productive sector.​Within this framework, authors present the Comprehensive Gu...