The Waste and Mitigation Hierarchy Infographic presents the key actions to reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants emissions from the waste management sector, key actors to involve, and benefits of mitigation....

Burden of disease attributed to air pollution (number) is defined as the absolute number of deaths (or DALYs) attributed to air pollution. The disease burden attributed to air pollution is expressed in terms of deaths and disability adjusted life years (DALYs) as: mean raw figures and age-standardized rates and its 95% confidence intervals.Epidemiological evidence has shown that the exposure to ai...

The FAOSTAT domain on Emissions Totals summarizes the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions disseminated in the FAOSTAT Climate Change domains of emissions from agrifood systems. Data are computed following the Tier 1 methods of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines for National greenhouse gas (GHG) Inventories (IPCC, 1996; 1997; 2000; 2002; 2006; 2014). Emissions from other eco...

Air quality is becoming a critical challenge across Southeast Asia, with the World Health Organization estimating that 2 million of the 7 million global deaths from air pollution exposure occur in the region. The dry season during the Asian Monsoon, coupled with winter low temperatures and calm winds, allows pollutants to accumulate, degrading air quality. The harmful pollution experienced across ...

The CAMS Global Fire Assimilation System (GFAS) assimilates fire radiative power (FRP) observations from satellite-based sensors to produce daily estimates of wildfire and biomass burning emissions. It also provides information about injection heights derived from fire observations and meteorological information from the operational weather forecasts of ECMWF.The GFAS data output includes spatiall...

Providing Active Fire Data for Near-Real Time Monitoring and ApplicationsThe Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) distributes Near Real-Time (NRT) active fire data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Aqua and Terra satellites, and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) aboard S-NPP, NOAA 20 and NOAA 21 (formally known as JPSS-...

The Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) is a research project that was initiated in 1980. It is a response to a perceived need for policy relevant data that would allow policy makers to move beyond simply measuring rates of unemployment, poverty and health care use, for example, to understanding the determinants of these observed social sector outcomes.The program is designed to assist polic...

This report summarizes what has been learned until now from CCAC’s work on open burning in the Andes and Himalayan cryosphere zones through an 18-month project scoping the scale of the problem in these two regions: the “what, who, when, where and why” of open burning there; identifies the major alternatives applicable to each region; and suggests some low-hanging fruit “catalyst” projects to begin...

Global outdoor biomass burning is a major contributor to air pollution, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Recent years have witnessed substantial changes in the extent of biomass burning, including large declines in Africa. However, direct evidence of the contribution of biomass burning to global health outcomes remains limited. Here, we use georeferenced data on more than 2 million ...

Authors examine the impact of exposure to biomass burning events (primarily crop burning) on the prevalence of hypertension in four North Indian states. They use data from the National Family Health Survey-IV for 2015-16 and employ a multivariate logistic and linear model to estimate the effect of exposure to biomass burning on the prevalence of hypertension and blood pressure, respectively. The a...