WSSD Clean Fuels and Vehicles Partnership

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WSSD Clean Fuels and Vehicles Partnership

• Better Air Quality in Asian and Pacific Rim
  Cities
• Hong Kong
• December 17, 2002
• John Beale, USEPA

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Powering Sustainable Development

• U.S. WSSD Clean Energy Initiative
• Global Village Energy Partnership
• Energy Efficiency for Sustainable Development
• Healthy Homes and Communities

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Healthy Homes and Communities

• Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles
• Partnership for Clean Indoor Air

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Partnership for Clean Indoor Air

• Brings together governments, non-governmental
  organizations, and the private sector to focus
  on
• Reducing exposure in the developing world to
  indoor pollution from home cooking and heating
  practices
• Increasing access to affordable, reliable, clean,
  and efficient home cooking and heating techniques

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What will the Partnership do?

• Obtain formal commitments from partners to
  address
• Social and cultural barriers to cleaner cooking
• Development of sustainable business models and
  markets to support changes
• Establish criteria to assess technologies for
  more efficient cooking and heating approaches
• Assess health impacts of improvements

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Current Partners

• Governments Canada, Italy, Mexico, South Africa,
  U.S., 7 Central American Countries
• Non-governmental organizationsWinrock
  International, Shell Foundation, UC/Berkeley
  Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory

• Industry LPG Association of Southern Africa
• International Organizations, UNEP, Pan-American
  Health Organization (PAHO), WHO, World Bank,
  United Nations Department of Economic and Social
  Affairs

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Clean Fuels and Vehicles Partnership

• Brings together governments, industry and
  non-governmental organizations to focus on
• The elimination of lead in gasoline
• The reduction of sulfur in diesel and gasoline,
  while adopting cleaner vehicle technologies.

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What will the Partnership do?

• Assist countries to develop and implement action
  plans for the adoption of cleaner fuel standards
  and cleaner vehicle requirements
• Develop and disseminate data and information,
  public outreach materials, educational programs,
  as well as develop enforcement and compliance
  programs and
• Foster key partnerships between government,
  industry, NGOs

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Current Partners

• Governments Australia, Canada, Chile, China, 7
  Central American countries, Italy, Mexico,
  Netherlands, South Africa, US
• Industry API, Alliance of Automobile
  Manufacturers, MECA, BP, American Honda, AECA,
  JAMA,AECC, AIAM, EMA, IFQC, International,
  Lubrizol, Petrobras

• Non-governmental organizations NRDC, Alliance to
  End Childhood Lead Poisoning, Global Environment
  and Technology Foundation
• International Organizations United Nations
  Department of Economic and Social Affairs, UNEP,
  and the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO)

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A renewed focus on lead

• Pb in gasoline
• is a potent neurotoxin and causes
• Lowered IQ scores, lifelong learning problems,
  and aggressive behavior
• precludes the use of catalytic converters to
  reduce other hazardous vehicle pollutants (CO,
  HC, NOx Toxics)
• Much Progress In the last 6 years, more than 50
  countries have taken action to eliminate lead in
  gasoline.
• Still more to doLead remains a continuing
  problem in Africa, Indonesia, Peru, and a few
  other countries

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A New Commitment fo Reducing Sulfur

• New worldwide focus on reducing sulfur in diesel
  and gasoline
• Diesel emissions increasing in urban areas
• Sulfur fuel specs vary from near-zero to 10,000
  ppm
• Particulates from vehicles are sub-micron (PM
  2.5) in size, especially damaging to public
  health.

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Sulfur and PM

• High sulfur levels in diesel and gasoline
  contribute to ambient PM
• Emitting particles directly
• Producing secondary particles in the urban
  atmosphere
• Preventing emission reduction technologies from
  operating properly
• Nox adds to the ambient particulate loading and
  ozone
• Reducing sulfur in fuel, even to intermediate
  levels, can immediately impact emissions from
  existing vehicles

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Sulfur, PM and Health Effects

• Fine particulates from diesel emissions
  contribute to respiratory problems, especially in
  children
• EPA has recently classified diesel emissions as a
  likely human carcinogen
• EPA has quantified the benefits of reducing
  sulfur in diesel in the US
• 110,000 tons of PM reduced each year
• Prevention of 8,300 premature deaths, 7,600 cases
  of acute bronchitis in children, 360,000 asthma
  attacks, and 1.5 million lost work days

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Partnership Activities

• Work with countries to develop country-specific
  plans
• Provide technical assistance
• Refinery modeling, emission inventory
• Public outreach
• Legislative analysis

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November 14 15Partnership Meeting

• UN Headquarters in New York
• Model WSSD Type 2 Partnership
• Outcomes
• Projects in specific regions
• Strategy for the Partnership
• Mechanisms for coordination.

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Coordination of Partnership

• UNEP has offered to host coordinator at UNEP
  Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya
• Several partners have contributed funding for
  coordinator
• Partnership will have a website and listserv for
  communication

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Next Steps

• 3 workgroups formed to develop simple and
  consistent positions on
• Valve Seat recession
• Octane requirements and replacements
• Sulfur in diesel and impact on PM
• Priority projects identified

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EPAs Program

• Technical assistance for a variety of projects
• Africa Lead Phase-out
• India
• Mexico
• Peru

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Fuels and Vehicles PartnershipSide Event in Hong
Kong

• Wednesday, December 18th
• Hong Kong Convention Center
• Agenda
• Organized by ADB and the Clean Air Initiative
• Presentations from Asian countries/industries

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For More Information, contact

• Kathleen Abdalla
• UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs,
  New York
• abdallak_at_un.org
• Jane Metcalfe
• USEPA, Washington
• metcalfe.jane_at_epa.gov