Urbanization, industrialization, and increasing fossil fuel consumption are generally identified as the main contributors to poor air quality. Smog is a form of visible air pollution processes that can cause diverse health problems (e.g., pulmonary, respiratory, and skin diseases). In Lahore, the second-largest city of Pakistan, smog pollution has been a significant socioeconomic issue since 2013 ...

The rapidly rising generation of municipal solid waste jeopardizes the environment and contributes to climate heating. Based on the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways, we here develop a global systematic approach for evaluating the potentials to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants from the implementation of circular municipal waste management systems. We contrast two sets of global ...

This report offers a comprehensive overview of what is known about Nairobi’s air pollution landscape through a systematic review of existing monitoring studies and scientific literature. It aims to provide researchers and policymakers with up-to-date information on pollution sources and impacts and to identify the data and capacity gaps that need to be addressed in order to develop comprehensive a...

The purpose of this primer is to guide municipal government decision-makers in their efforts to access financing for capital-intensive, revenue-generating, climate-sensitive projects.As more power over municipal solid waste management is devolved from national to sub-national authorities, cities are enjoying increasing autonomy in selecting the most appropriate mechanism for addressing their sanit...

To help realize LOW-M’s ambition, jurisdictions need easy access to information on available funding and financing tools that support adequate solid waste management (SWM) systems with methane mitigation.With strategic planning and targeted investment, waste systems can develop utility-like business models that deliver environmental, economic and social benefits – including the creation of green j...

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...