Asia has the highest number of megacities with poor air quality. The region hosts the world's two fastest growing economies and growing GHG emitters - China and India. Large transport and energy infrastructure projects are a main source of local air pollution and GHG emissions. Limited capacity of institutions and availability of credible information, however, hampers efforts to reduce emissions.

This project aims to provide stakeholders in Asia with credible air quality and climate change data and information for energy and transport sectors, and highlighting the co-benefits of jointly addressing them. Activities include:

• Develop guidelines and a system for collecting and updating data on energy and transport parameters for inclusion on the Clean Air Portal
• Derive and compare/benchmark GHG and local air pollution indicators across 13 countries and 24 cities in Asia.

Official project title:
Knowledge Partnership for measuring Air Pollution and GHG Emissions in Asia

Donor: World Bank Development Grant Facility (DGF)

Partners: CAI-Asia Partnership members

Duration: Nov 2009 -Dec 2012

CAI-Asia contact:
May Ajero, may.ajero(at)cai-asia.org