This report provides brief insights on the current challenges, and considerations for the future in four environmental domains: climate action; clean air; healthy ecosystems; and sustainable urbanization, presented in the “Insights” special section. These four domains feature heavily in the four scenarios described in this report....

Meeting report summarizing the findings, case studies, and dialogues from the 2023 high-level forum on clean air....

This paper outlines, analyzes, and summarizes the current state of Southeast Asia's efforts towards cooperation, monitoring, modeling, and development of sustainable agricultural mechnization to decrease greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector....

This study is sponsored by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and North-East Asian Subregional Programme for Environmental Cooperation (NEASPEC) under ADB’s technical assistance (TA) project number TA 6371-REG. Trans-boundary air pollution in Northeast Asia has long been recognized as a serious issue. Actions are urgently needed to deal with acid rain-related environmental impacts and the pollution ...

We study the impact of the odd-even transportation policy (environmental regulation), among other controlled factors on Delhi's pollution levels using panel data. We have daily data on five different pollutants from 9th April 2015 through 29th July 2018 and also pollutant’s data over nine different locations of Delhi averaged over different years from 2014 onwards. We consider explanatory variable...

This issue of Asia-Pacific Tech Monitor discusses the enabling policies, strategies, and best practices for the adoption of innovative technologies to control air pollution in the Asia-Pacific countries....

Substantial scientific and technical capacities in various aspects of transboundary air pollution monitoring and assessment exist in countries of North-East Asian subregion. Facing the dire challenges posed by transboundary air pollution arising from climatic conditions as well as industrial and economic activities, the North-East Asian subregion countries began to actively seek internationally co...

The technical paper on Space Applications for Air Pollution Management was prepared by Hana Lee (Ph.D), consultant, Space Application Section, Information and Communications Technology and Disaster Risk Reduction Division (IDD), under the guidance of Kelly Hayden, Economic Officer Affairs Officer, Space Application Section, and Keran Wang, Chief, Space Application Section, IDD. Technical inputs we...

In the last decade, improvement in the economic standard of people and migration from rural areas to urban areas has led to degradation of air quality in the cities. Air pollution has emerged as one of the biggest global challenges posing serious threats to human health, economy and the overall ecological balance. In 2017, air pollution was responsible for 8% of the total disease burden and 11% of...

This presentation addresses sources of ambient air pollution, impact of harmful air quality, current steps by governments to tackle the issue, and a project framework of subregional cooperation in South Asia for promotion of integrated straw management....