Fourth Regional Dialogue of Air Quality Management AQM Initiatives

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Fourth Regional Dialogue of Air Quality
Management (AQM) Initiatives Programs in Asia

• Presentation of Deutsche Gesellschaft für
  Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH,
  Eschborn/Germany
• 30 January 2008
• Roland Haas
• Water, Energy and Transport Department

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Air quality and climate change projects of GTZ in
ASIA (selection)

• Clean Air and Climate Protection for Smaller
  Cities in the ASEAN Region
• Project Objective
• Small and medium-sized cities are increasingly
  able to develop
• and implement measures to improve the air quality
• Outcome
• Development of Clean Air Action Plans under
  participation of civil society and the private
  sector
• Support of assessing base-line conditions
• Support in the implementation and monitoring of
  the Action Plans
• Support in seeking financial assistance through
  Development Banks

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Air quality and climate change projects of GTZ in
ASIA (selection)

• Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP)
• Information dissemination through e.g. Source
  Book, web page, CD/DVD etc.
• Capacity building on SUT, such as training on
  BRT, NMT, public awareness
• Technical assistance on SUT
• gt Indirect impact on air quality and climate
  protection

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Air quality and climate change projects of GTZ in
ASIA (selection)

• India (Central Pollution Control Board)
• Strengthening of Air Toxics Laboratory (
  250,000)
• Standard operating procedures for monitoring and
  analysis of Hazardous Air Pollutants
• Development of a suitable Laboratory
• Capacity development/training of staff
• Establishment of National Reference Trace Organic
  Laboratory (approx. 1,000,000)
• Planning and development of a state-of-the-art
  the Laboratory
• Installing equipment and instruments for
  sampling, sample preparation, analysis, chemical
  storage etc.
• Training of staff within India and outside
  including on-the-job training and quality
  assurance.

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Air quality and climate change projects of GTZ in
ASIA (selection)

• India (Central Pollution Control Board)
• Air Pollution Source Apportionment Studies
  (1,600,000 )
• Development of guidelines for undertaking Source
  Apportionment studies
• Development of guidelines and SOPs for air
  quality monitoring and analysis
• Source apportionment studies in 6 major India
  cities viz. Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Kanpur,
  Chennai, Pune.
• Capacity building

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Current priorities in terms of technical
assistance and funding

• Comprehensive air pollution control activities in
  the field of mobile and stationary sources
• Non-motorised transport
• Mass transport
• Integration of transport and land-use planning

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Funding opportunities for air quality and climate
change mitigation efforts in Asia

• The German-ASEAN project Clean Air for
• Smaller Cities will
• define project packages to be financed by
  development banks or GEF
• for co-financing partners
• will cooperate with the private sector

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• Thank you
• Roland.Haas_at_gtz.de