Urban traffic and pollution are obstacles to a healthy city. This course equips you with tools to tackle these issues through Urban Vehicle Access Regulations (UVARs) like Low Emission Zones and Congestion Charges, covering their impact on traffic and pollution, while exploring real-world examples and best practices for successful UVAR implementation.In this course, you will be able to:Understand ...

With the release of the 2021 WHO Air Quality Guidelines which were more stringent, and the increasing demand from Member States to support and build capacity for their air quality management capabilities, WHO convened UN agencies involved in air quality activities in a working group to discuss the reporting criteria for Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) indicator 11.6.2 – air quality in cities –...

This guidance and tools presented in this report represent an effort to address this yawning gap between reality and aspirations for better air quality – in a stepwise approach that advances progress on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11 – “Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.”It provides a user's guide to a new, common UN repository of tools for assessi...

The UNICEF policy brief highlights the link between heatwaves and air pollution, particularly noting that heat exacerbates the health impacts of air pollution on children. Extreme heat worsens air quality, increasing the incidence of respiratory diseases like asthma and pneumonia in children. Wildfire smoke, which is intensified by heatwaves, releases fine particulate matter (PM2.5) that is especi...

Air pollution is the leading environmental health risk for children in Europe and Central Asia. Young children, in particular, are at the greatest risk of air pollution-related death and disease.Across 23 countries and territories in Europe and Central Asia, an estimated 6,441 children and teenagers died from causes attributable to air pollution in 2021. The vast majority – 85 per cent – died in t...

The UNDP Europe and Central Asia region is one of the most carbon intensive areas of the world, with 88 percent of its primary energy supply coming from fossil fuels, which substantively contributes to air pollution. The main sources of air pollution come from the burning of fossil fuels in energy production and from household, transport, industrial and agricultural activities. The  direct im...

This note synthesizes and builds on analytical work conducted by the World Bank during 2018–2019 on Regional Air Quality Management in the Western Balkans, which comprises three country-level reports on air quality management in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and North Macedonia. ...

This report is one in a series of three reports on AQM in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and North Macedonia. It examines the nature and magnitude of ambient air pollution (AAP) in North Macedonia. It provides estimates of the health burden, and economic cost associated with the health impacts, of AAP, that is, PM2.5 in North Macedonia. It analyzes the roles of various sources of PM2.5 emissions ...

This report is one in a series of three reports on AQM in Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and North Macedonia. It examines the nature and magnitude of AAP in Kosovo. It provides estimates of the health burden and the economic cost associated with the health impacts of AAP, that is, PM2.5, in Kosovo. It also provides an analysis of the roles of various sources of PM2.5 emissions on ambient air qual...

This report is one in a series of three reports on AQM in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Kosovo, and North Macedonia. It examines the nature and magnitude of AAP in BiH. It provides estimates of the health burden, and economic cost associated with the health impacts, of AAP, that is, PM2.5 in BiH. It also provides an analysis of the roles of various sources of PM2.5 emissions on ambient air quality...