Kazakhstan has committed to decarbonization over the next few decades and is also stepping up efforts to reduce air pollution that imposes high health costs on its citizens. Every year, 6,000–9,360 people in Kazakhstan are dying prematurely due to poor air quality. Kazakhstan’s Concept for Transition to Green Economy estimates that air pollution causes up to 6,000 premature deaths per year. Moreov...

Air pollution is the single greatest environmental risk factor for premature death globally. In response to the global threat from air pollution, the United Nations Environment Programme have since 2014 increased its engagement in air quality issues. One of the UNEP engagements on air quality is to make a re-occurring global summary of the air quality problem, its trends, and policies and instrume...

The AQI Hub is a comprehensive online resource dedicated to deepening the public's understanding of their own AQI and AQIs worldwide. The AQI Hub provides detailed descriptions of various national and regional AQI systems, enabling users to understand how an AQI is built and to compare and contrast how different countries assess and communicate air quality. By exploring the methodologies, scales, ...

The existing air quality monitoring networks have been assessed in relation to CPCB guidelines over four Indian cities (Kanpur, Lucknow, Pune and Nashik) under the CAP India project. The analysis is based on existing monitoring measurements, secondary literature, available satellite data, and site visits conducted for all four CAP-India cities. Each monitoring station in the existing network was e...

The document is part of the project "Enhanced capabilities to adopt innovative technologies for city air pollution control in select countries of the Asia-Pacific," supported by the Korea ESCAP Cooperation Fund. The project focuses on strengthening policies and city-level action plans to adopt innovative air pollution control technologies in three cities: Bangkok, Dhaka, and Gurugram. It aims to i...

Details of GEMS data, review of ESCAP python and machine learning, approaches to applying remote sensing data to urban air pollution, Pandora spectrometer and validation data....

This presentation provides a brief history of the GEMS technology, previous and future cooperation, as well as technical oversight of the scaling and development of GEMS data gathering and multilateral information sharing....

This 2023 Review of Climate Ambition in Asia and the Pacific: Just transition towards regional net-zero climate resilient development, developed jointly by ESCAP, UNEP, UNFCCC/RCC Asia-Pacific, ILO, UN Women and UNIDO, and the members of the Issues-Based Coalition for Raising Climate Ambition of the Regional Collaboration Platform for Asia and the Pacific members, applies the Panel’s recommendatio...

This report provides brief insights on the current challenges, and considerations for the future in four environmental domains: climate action; clean air; healthy ecosystems; and sustainable urbanization, presented in the “Insights” special section. These four domains feature heavily in the four scenarios described in this report....

Meeting report summarizing the findings, case studies, and dialogues from the 2023 high-level forum on clean air....