Recommendations National Workshop Urban Air Quality and Integrated Traffic Management

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RecommendationsNational WorkshopUrban Air
Quality and Integrated Traffic Management
September 13 - 14, 2006Avari Towers, Karachi
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Outline

• General recommendations
• Specific recommendations
• Institutional and Regulatory Framework
• Travel Demand Management and BRT
• Fuel quality, Emissions and Alternatives
• Public Information and Awareness raising
• In-use vehicles emissions management
• Follow up
• PCAN strengthening

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General Recommendations

• Have a comprehensive approach addressing mobile
  and industrial/ stationary sources of air
  pollution
• Emphasize implementation of policies
• Develop and adopt ambient air quality standards
• Do more air quality monitoring, emission
  inventories, and source apportionment
• Operationalize the air quality provisions of the
  Pakistan Environmental Protection Act of 1997
  through the provision of a Pakistan air quality
  policy/ action plan

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Institutional and Regulatory Framework

• Staff strengthening (quantity and quality)
  including establishment and strengthening of
  training institutions
• Institutional coordination at national,
  provincial and local levels
• Improve technical infrastructure
• Policy development

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Travel Demand Management and BRT

• Enforcement of Existing laws and policies
  (immediate)
• vehicle fitness, RTA, MVEs, etc.
• Town/land use planning (medium to long-term)
• Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) on one-way roads and on
  three lane dual carriage ways (medium-term)
• Bus terminals, bays and stops
• Variable/staggered working hours (immediate to
  short-term)
• Institutional car pooling/ schools buses
  (medium-term)
• LRT- needs to be running where traffic
  congestions are problems (medium to long-term)

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Fuel quality, Emissions and Alternatives

• Notify and officially inform stakeholders on
  effective date of Euro II standards and fuel
  specification (Pak EPA and MOP)
• Euro II-compliant fuel (gasoline and diesel)
  available on 1 January 2008
• Regular monitoring of progress towards meeting
  the target
• Federal government to work with stakeholders on a
  roadmap for Euro III and IV
• Address adulteration problem of 2T oil through
  better implementation and policing
• Develop consensus on the role of biofuels in
  Pakistan through an international workshop on
  biofuels and pilot projects

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Public Information and Awareness Raising

• Collect data on air quality and ensure that
  decision makers are aware of the air quality
  situation
• Promote information exchange among AQM
  stakeholders
• Broaden awareness raising through creating
  capacity in the form of environmental clubs to
  increase the impact and scale of awareness
  raising
• Media speak of the danger and the ways to
  prevent and minimize air pollution
• Combination of voluntary and sponsored awareness
  raising activities
• Incentive system to reward good corporate
  citizens
• Give incentives to private sector which support
  practices that reduce or prevent air pollution
• Include AQM in educational curriculum at all
  levels

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In-use vehicles emissions management

• Federal
• Age based criteria for scrappage (and buyback) of
  old commercial vehicles (gt 15 yrs), included with
  green fund support review experience of other
  Asian countries in this regard.
• Discuss the need for tightening policies for the
  import of reconditioned vehicles.
• Need to develop in-use emission standards based
  on sample tests review experience of other Asian
  countries in this regard.
• Vehicle manufacturers should stop using asbestos
  in clutches and brakes.
• Province and City
• 2-stroke technology 3-wheelers to be phased out
  and replaced with 4-strokes (inclusive of CNG
  vehicles)
• Inspection and Maintenance by private sector
  certification by government.
• Present system is only for commercial vehicles
  (under fitness testing) and does not include
  emission tests vehicles expand it to include
  private vehicles and emission tests.
• Government needs develop the institutional
  mechanism, guidelines for contracting, model PPP
  MOUs etc.
• Frequency of emission testing (recommended
  annually for commercial, and bi-annually for
  private vehicles).
• Vehicle dealers should be encouraged to set up
  inspection and maintenance centers

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Follow up

• Develop an action plan to follow-up on Sept 2006
  workshop
• Document workshop presentations and outcomes on
  www.cleanairnet.org/pakistan (20 September)
• Present recommendations at BAQ 2006 Pakistan
  country workshop
• Two follow-up workshops in 2006 one in Islamabad
  and one city based
• Document Lahore story, both for Pakistani
  audience as well as international audience
• Develop communication strategy to inform
  stakeholders in Pakistan and outside on progress
  made in AQM in Pakistan
• Develop integrated round tables on selected
  topics
• Capacity building one or two training courses
• Negotiated consensus on the role of PCAN/CAI-Asia
  as monitor of recommendations reached during
  workshop

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PCAN strengthening

• Develop institutional structure of PCAN as a city
  based network charter, articles of association,
  governance structure
• Develop memorandum of understanding between
  PCAN/CAI-Asia with Pak EPA, Provincial EPAs
• Increase staff strength of PCAN with an
  additional person
• Fund raising requirements 2007 50,000
  75,000
• Outreach and Public relations