Best Available Techniques (BAT) for Preventing and Controlling Industrial Pollution - Activity 1Best Available techniques (BAT) have emerged as a key policy tool for setting emission limit values and other permit conditions to prevent and control industrial emissions, and thus ensure a high level of human health and environmental protection. This report provides an overview of policies and practic...

To facilitate the use of the mounting evidence on how human health is inextricably linked to the health of the planet and the urgent need for measures against the escalating triple planetary crisis, the WHO has developed a repository of systematic reviews on interventions in the area of environment, climate change and health (ECH). This commentary introduces the repository, describes its rationale...

Open Air Quality Data: The Global Landscape is the only global assessment of whether and how national governments are producing and sharing air quality data with the public.OpenAQ—an NGO that hosts the world’s largest opensource, open-access database of real-time and historical outdoor air quality measurements—analyzed countries across the world to determine which have government-level air quality...

This clearing house is operated by TFTEI (Task Force on Techno-Economic Issues), under the UNECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution. It aims to deliver information on reduction techniques for SO2, NOx, PM, VOC, HM and POP coming from different anthropogenic sources through:Updated information on best available techniques to reduce emissions, with a focus on technical descriptions...

The purpose of this report was to assist decision-makers in the public and private sectors, policy planners and implementers, civil society organizations, and other key stakeholders in identifying policies, measures, instruments, and resources that promote more efficient use of transportation resources....

This document provides basic guidelines for developing specific strategies to effectively promote the use of bicycles, walking, public transportation, and the rationalization of the use of motorized private transportation. It also includes examples of sustainable transportation promotion activities that have been carried out in various countries up to the year 2012. ...

This 2012 document aimed to present a detailed overview of the basic components of a public bicycle system, along with relevant case studies, framed within a conceptual model of general policies and sustainable urban transportation systems. ...

This 2012 review documented the experience of the city of Santiago de Chile in installing photovoltaic lighting at bus stops, as part of a strategy to save energy, enhance personal safety, and improve the accessibility and quality of service of the public transportation system. ...

This report identifies and analyzes successful policies, measures, and initiatives (interventions) for reducing urban freight transport emissions, identifying their impacts and implementation costs, with a special focus on those interventions being implemented in Latin America up to the year 2013. ...

This publication analyzes the success and failure factors of natural gas implementation programs in transportation systems, ranging from countries that have experienced sustained growth in the application of natural gas in light vehicles, such as Argentina and Brazil, to countries where programs have collapsed, such as New Zealand, to countries with recent natural gas vehicle programs, such as Chi...