Air pollution is a major sustainability challenge – and future anthropogenic precursor and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions will greatly affect human well-being. While mitigating climate change can reduce air pollution both directly and indirectly, distinct policy levers can affect these two interconnected sustainability issues across a wide range of scenarios. Authors help to assess such issues by ...

This presentation gives an overview of the IPCC Guidance on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories:Purpose and focus:The guidelines help countries estimate and report GHG emissions reliably.The guidelines provide methods and tools for consistently compiling GHG inventoriesOut of scope:The guidelines don’t assess the potential of emission reduction measures or mitigation strategies.The guidelines are ...

The purpose of this annex is to describe the Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) procedures and information quality considerations that are used throughout the process of creating and compiling the Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks. This includes the evaluation of the quality and relevance of data and models used as inputs into the Inventory; proper management, incorporati...

This is the 2019 refinement to the corresponding chapter in the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gases Inventories....

India is a rapidly developing economy with interrelated air quality, sustainable development, and climate change mitigation goals. There are unique challenges to achieving each of these goals as well as potential tradeoffs among them. This study examines the implications of possible future energy, climate, and air pollution control policies and measures in India through 2050. Authors take a scenar...

This U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report reviews the state of Health Impact Assessment (HIA) practice in the United States by examining 81 completed HIAs across a range of sectors, including transportation, land use, energy, housing, and natural resource management. The report assesses how HIAs are being conducted, identifies current best practices, and evaluates the extent to which ...

This Health Canada guidance provides a framework for assessing the potential human health effects of air quality within federal impact assessments for major resource and infrastructure projects. It outlines the principles, methodologies, and information expected by Health Canada when reviewing impact statements, helping proponents evaluate how project-related air emissions may affect nearby popula...

The CDC's Health Impact Assessment Resources page provides guidance on using environmental and public health data to support Health Impact Assessments (HIAs) of proposed plans, policies, programmes, and projects. It highlights how the CDC's Environmental Public Health Tracking Network can be used throughout the HIA process—from community engagement and scoping to assessment, monitoring, and evalua...

The Air Quality Categories webpage published by the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) Victoria describes the air quality classification system used to communicate current air pollution conditions and associated health advice. It explains the five air quality categories—Good, Fair, Poor, Very Poor, and Extremely Poor—and the pollutant concentration thresholds used to assign these categories ba...

Audit overview:Clean air is important for health and wellbeing, and is an issue of community concern. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that statistically significant evidence supports the correlation between poor air quality and negative health impacts. The air we breathe primarily contains nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, water vapour and various inert gases. It also contains pol...