Today, air quality in many Asian cities exceeds the World Health Organization (WHO) guideline limits for the protection of human health. According to WHO, 92% of the world’s population now live in places where air quality levels exceed health limits, and that 7 million premature deaths worldwide are linked to exposure to ambient and household air pollution. Air pollution also adversely affects the...

To set the way forward in achieving the vision for cleaner air, Clean Air Asia led the development of the Guidance Framework for Better Air Quality in Asian Cities (Guidance Framework) in 2014 to address the needs and challenges in the region. It aims to provide a recognized guidance on improving urban air quality and is organized around priority areas of concern in the region, which were translat...

What a Waste 2.0: A Global Snapshot of Solid Waste Management to 2050 aggregates extensive solid waste data at the national and urban levels. It estimates and projects waste generation to 2030 and 2050. Beyond the core data metrics from waste generation to disposal, the report provides information on waste management costs, revenues, and tariffs; special wastes; regulations; public communication; ...

WARM provides high-level comparisons of potential greenhouse gas emissions reductions, energy savings, and economic impacts when considering different materials management practices. Materials management practices include - source reduction, recycling, anaerobic digestion, combustion, composting and landfilling....

The management of municipal solid waste and the associated environmental impacts are the subject of growing attention in industrialized countries. EU has recently strongly emphasized the role of LCA in its waste and resource strategies. The development of sustainable solid waste management systems applying a life-cycle perspective requires readily understandable tools for modeling the life-cycle i...

This a dataset regularly collected by Our World in Data which includes data on energy consumption (primary energy, per capita, and growth rates), energy mix, electricity mix, and other relevant metrics. The indicators represent all of our main data related to energy consumption, energy mix, electricity mix as well as other indicators of potential interest....

This is an Excel-based dataset from the IEA showing the energy balances per country, per product, and per flow....

The AQUA tool is an easy-to-use excel spreadsheet model that city staff can use with minimal guidance. It uses population, exposure, health and economic cost data, as well as epidemiologic evidence to help users calculate how emission changes can benefit local air quality and health....

The Pathways Air Quality ('Pathways-AQ') decision-support tool is an extension of the existing C40 Pathways tool. The original tool models city-level greenhouse gas emissions over time and allows users to input hypothetical actions, such as shifting to energy efficient household appliances, to estimate how they would change the city's total emissions by the year 2050. Pathways-AQ works the same wa...

This lecture illustrates the impacts of air pollution on building materials and structures. Air pollutants responsible for the degradation of materials, their economic impacts, and remedial measures have also been discussed....