In Guidance Area 5, learners will understand the role of clean air action plans (CAAPs) which is to include and strengthen air quality management in relevant policies and legislations of cities and countries in the region. This module is divided into two sections: 1) CAAP development process – discusses the step-by-step process and basic considerations in developing and implementing a clean air ac...

A small number of cities in Asia and Europe have developed traffic charging systems designed to reduce air pollution and congestion, while also offering opportunities for significant reductions in associated climate pollutants. Because these traffic charging systems, frequently referred to as “congestion charges”, provide opportunities to direct collected revenue towards improvements in public tra...

This toolkit provides guidance on co-benefits of air and climate policies and measures. It introduces the concept of co-benefits and its application in clean air planning....

Mainstreaming air quality in a city’s urban development can be understood as operating on two levels: (1) integrating air quality management (AQM) into governance, institutional arrangements, and processes and (2) including air quality goals and considerations in the city’s overall development goals, performance indicators, and plans. This module uses the development of a clean air action plan (CA...

This toolkit is intended for policymakers, defined as those with legal authority to create public policies (Popoola, 2016). It aims to define their roles within the context of AQM, focusing on clean air action planning as its core. Within the city, policymakers would include legislators, the executive and administrators. These positions have the power to formulate laws in the form of ordinances, r...

For a clean air action plan (CAAP) to be effective, it is important to (1) address dominant pollution sources and reduce their emissions, (2) mitigate health risks posed by pollution to vulnerable groups and/or densely populated areas, and (3) ensure that air quality and public health improvements are the overarching goals of the plan. A step by step guide provided by this document aims to help ci...

This Guidance Framework chapter begins with a look at how finance is an integral yet sometimes overlooked component of clean air and climate action, situating it within a series of objectives that are linked to the developmental phases of AQM. This is followed by a discussion of the tools and approaches available to cities to help them better understand the costs and benefits of clean air investme...

Through a consistent approach focused on the identification of AQM opportunities presented by the budgeting process and through an analysis of existing sources of revenue collection, decision-makers are offered a stronger starting point from which to launch concerted AQM and climate change mitigation actions, as well as an improved understanding of how municipal finance can be leveraged to further...

In this module, the focus is on the use of the results of air quality models for formulating policies that are contextual, sciencebased, and grounded on data and research. The value of models in policy development is for decision makers to understand a quantitative link between pollutant emissions at one or many locations, and the resulting concentrations or doses of pollutants experienced by the ...

The chapter begins by presenting regulatory instruments employed independently and in combination to manage air quality; then discusses how these instruments are embedded in different governance arrangements. It is understood that there is unlikely to be a universal approach for different contexts in Asia, hence the instruments and arrangements will vary across countries and cities. Instead, this ...