Regional Air Pollution pot

Asia Southeast Asia: 10 ASEAN member countries are working under the framework of ASEAN Haze Agreement GMS East Asia: 13 countries, which includes Northeast and Southeast Asia, worki

Asia

Southeast Asia:

10 ASEAN member countries are working under the framework of ASEAN Haze Agreement

GMS

East Asia:

13 countries, which includes Northeast and Southeast Asia, working under the framework of East Asia Network on Acid Deposition

South Asia:

8 countries are cooperating under the framework of Male’ Declaration on Control and Prevention of Air Pollution and Its likely Transboundary Effects for South Asia

Central Asia

5 Central Asia countries formulated the

Framework Convention on Preservation of

Environment for Sustainable Development of

Central Asia

MD: Task Force on the Future Development

Task 2: Conduct a feasibility study on strengthening regional

framework

Tasks

Task 3: Develop sustainable financing mechanism for the Malé

Declaration

Task 1: Conduct a feasibility study on the establishment of

specialized regional centres

1 st Meeting in Bangkok in August 2010

2 nd Meeting in Colombo (Nov 2010)

IG meeting (Jun 2011?)

Ministerial meeting

Identified host country, finalised ToR

Minimum standards for vehicles, fuels, brick kilns, etc

by protocols Sustainable Financial Mechanism

EANET: Instrument

IG 12 adopted the instrument for strengthening the basis of EANET

• Expected to be operational by Jan 2012

10 Years of service to the region

• Harminisation

• Capacity building

• Data and information

• Decision support information

SPREP

The First Joint Meeting

Development of the Joint Plan

• Outline of the Joint Plan was

circulated (August 2009)

• Draft Joint Plan was developed

based on the outline

• Consultation with EANET IG

• Revised draft was prepared for

further consultation process,

comments, and finalization

Participants of the IG11 on EANET

Participants of the IG11 on Male’ Declaration

The Second Meeting of the Joint Forum on Atmospheric Environment

in Asia and the Pacific was held in Bangkok, Thailand on 10-11 March 2010

Outcomes

• Joint Plan for joint activities on air pollution in Asia and the

Pacific

• Work Plan for 2010 - 2012

Second Joint Meeting

Vision

The vision of the Joint Forum is to achieve a clean atmospheric environment through collective and coherent actions in Asia and the Pacific region, especially through enhanced cooperation and collaboration among regional and sub-regional networks

Joint Plan

Work Plan

1 Information sharing

1.1 Establish clearinghouse for air pollution information by

networking of data bases on air pollution based on existing

initiatives

1.2 Compilation of good practices for atmospheric pollution

control applied in individual countries and share through the

clearinghouse

1.3 Compilation of guidelines and standards related to air

pollution management and disseminate through clearing house

1.4 Compilation of policy-oriented measures (regulation,

economic instruments, incentives, etc.) adopted in individual

countries

Africa

Northern Africa

Developed draft North African Framework

Agreement on Air Pollution A formal

adoption by the Ministers is expected in

early 2011

Southern Africa Agreed on the Lusaka Agreement on Air Pollution

Central and Western Africa

Adopted a regional framework agreement (Abidjan

Agreement) on air pollution

Latin America and Caribbean

The First Meeting

• Hosted by ROLAC in Panama

• Agreed on the need for the air pollution network in the

region

• Ministerial Decision

Air pollution networks

LRTAP LRTAP

Established Regional Air Pollution Networks

IG Forum

APINA

Abidjan Agreement

Lusaka Agreement

Nairobi Agreement

CAI-Asia CAI-SSA

CAI-Latin America

Established Urban Air Pollution Networks

Mandate: Coordinate the scientific activities of the

Project ABC in Asia

Focus areas: Facilitate the Implementation of

ABC observatory programme and impact

assessment programme

ST (ABC Africa)

Mandate: Coordinate the

scientific activities of the Project ABC in Africa

Focus area: Facilitate the development of feasibility study on the establishment of ABC-Africa, and

implementation of ABC observatory programme and impact assessment

programme

ST ABC (Latin America)

Mandate: Coordinate the

scientific activities of the Project ABC in Latin America

Focus area: Facilitate development of feasibility study on the establishment

of ABC- Latin America, and implementation of ABC observatory programme and impact assessment

programme

ABC

• Contribute to climatic benefits

• Improve health and living condition for

women and children

• Evaluate and establish sustainability and

business model for new technologies

Mitigation component of Project ABC

Mitigation: Surya

Min-Max Kitchen BC concentration

Indoor air BC concentration

Surya: Kenya

Surya: Kenya

Surya: Kenya

Consultation on BC Mitigation, Mar 11

• Awareness (Promote awareness on available mitigation measures)

• Availability (Improve availability of mitigation technologies)

• Affordability (enhance affordability), and

• Assessment (Assess the economic, environmental, and social

benefits of mitigation measures)

Reflections

Gap

• Increasing ambitions (Bali – Poznan – Copenhagen – Cancun)

• Widening gap (Ambitions – Scientific pursuits)

• Short – lived pollutants can bridge the gap to keep the rise in global temperature below 2 o C limit set in the Copenhagen Accord, as

anchored in the Cancun Agreement

Reflections

Joint Meeting of the Air Pollution Networks

Asia-Pacific Latin America and Caribbean

Climate Change Networks

(UNFCC, IPCC)

ODS Networks

(Ozone Secretariat)

Short-Lived Pollutants Science Team

Technology and Economic Evaluation Team

Existing

To be established

Short-Lived Pollutants Policy Team

Existing Sub-regional level Air

Pollution Networks

Network of Networks

Existing Sub-regional level Air Pollution Networks Existing regional level Air Pollution Network Existing regional level Air Pollution Network