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Air Pollution in Bangladesh: Status, Sources, and Actions

Air Pollution in Bangladesh: Status, Sources, and Actions

Factsheet | 2026

The "Air Pollution in Bangladesh: Status, Sources, and Actions" factsheet provides a comprehensive overview of the current air quality challenges, impacts, and mitigation efforts in Bangladesh. It covers key areas including air pollution status and its primary sources, monitoring network, …

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Air Pollution Cluster Brochure

Air Pollution Cluster Brochure

Brochure | 2025

The Air Pollution Cluster (APC) is committed to finding the best solutions to combat air pollution and related environmental problems for a clean and sustainable environment in the Asian region. This initiative aims to foster renewed regional cooperation to effectively …

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Impacts of COVID-19 on Air Quality in India

Impacts of COVID-19 on Air Quality in India

Scientific papers | 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic spread all over the world in early 2020. India imposed a nationwide lockdown on March 25, 2020, for more than a month to contain the COVID-19 infection. During the nationwide lockdown, transport, industries, and commercial activities were …

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Summary of ASEAN Meeting on Soot-free Transport

Summary of ASEAN Meeting on Soot-free Transport

Report | 2019

The Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) Heavy-Duty Vehicles Initiative (HDVI) is supporting the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to reduce the air pollution and near-term climate impacts of diesel emissions in the on-road transport sector. The “ASEAN …

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Guidance to Fuel Importing Countries for Reducing On-Road Fuel Sulfur Levels

Guidance to Fuel Importing Countries for Reducing On-Road Fuel Sulfur Levels

Report | 2018

In 2012, the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) launched the Heavy-Duty Vehicles and Engines Initiative to "virtually eliminate fine particle and black carbon emissions from new and existing heavy-duty diesel vehicles and engines through the introduction of low-sulfur fuels …

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Best Available Techniques for preventing and controlling industrial pollution

Best Available Techniques for preventing and controlling industrial pollution

Report | 2018

This report presents the first comprehensive analysis of approaches to establishing BAT and similar concepts to prevent and control industrial emissions in a wide range of countries, including the following OECD Members and Partners: the Russian Federation, Korea, the United …

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Emission of Air Pollutants and Greenhouse Gases in Nepal

Emission of Air Pollutants and Greenhouse Gases in Nepal

Report | 2018

Estimations of the emissions of air pollutants and greenhouse gases (GHG) of Asian country was done as a part of the activities of the Atmospheric Brown Cloud (ABC) Programme of AIT RRC.AP. ABC Programme has been supported by the Swedish …

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Male' Newsletter, Volume 10 Issue 1

Male' Newsletter, Volume 10 Issue 1

Newsletter | 2016

The Fourteenth Session of the Intergovernmental Meeting (IG14) of the Malé Declaration on Control and Prevention of Air Pollution and its LikelyTransboundary Effects for South Asia (Malé Declaration) was held in Bangkok, Thailand on 25 November 2015. The event was …

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Fourteenth Session of the Intergovernmental Meeting (IG14)

Fourteenth Session of the Intergovernmental Meeting (IG14)

Report | 2015

The Fourteenth Session of the Intergovernmental Meeting (IG14) of the Malé Declaration on Control and Prevention of Air Pollution and its LikelyTransboundary Effects for South Asia (Malé Declaration) was held in Bangkok, Thailand on 25 November 2015.

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Standard Operating Procedures Manual for Wet and Dry Deposition Monitoring

Standard Operating Procedures Manual for Wet and Dry Deposition Monitoring

Report | 2013

To make it easy for the National Implementing Agency (NIA) personnel to perform their tasks proficiently, it was also decided to develop a Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) manual. Accordingly, this manual has been written by Asian technical advisor on monitoring …

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Malé Declaration 1998-2013: a Synthesis (Progress and Opportunities)

Malé Declaration 1998-2013: a Synthesis (Progress and Opportunities)

Report | 2013

The ‘Malé Declaration on Control and Prevention of Air Pollution and its likely Transboundary Effects for South Asia’ is an intergovernmental network involving Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran, the Republic of Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Since its inception in …

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Atmospheric Brown Clouds - Emission Inventory Manual

Atmospheric Brown Clouds - Emission Inventory Manual

Report | 2013

Atmospheric brown cloud (ABC), a frequently occurring phenomenon in many regions of the world, is a regional scale plume of air pollution that consists of a mixture of anthropogenic sulfate, nitrate, organics, black carbon, dust and fly ash particles and …

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Data Analysis Report 2012

Data Analysis Report 2012

Scientific papers | 2012

This report presents the data generated by the participating countries over the last three years (2009-2011) with a goal to share the results of monitoring as well as to evaluate the data generated specially with respect to trends if any. …

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Soft Approaches for Achieving Benefits from Black Carbon Emissions Reduction

Soft Approaches for Achieving Benefits from Black Carbon Emissions Reduction

Report | 2011

This report summarises the content discussed during the consultation workshop held in Kathmandu, Nepal. The workshop started with welcome remarks and Keynote Address delivered by representatives from UNEP, U.S. EPA, ICIMOD, and the Ministry of Environment, Nepal. The internationally renowned …

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Air pollution-Promoting Regional Cooperation

Air pollution-Promoting Regional Cooperation

Scientific papers | 2010

The primary aim of this book on Air Pollution Promoting Regional Cooperation is to facilitate the training of governmental decision-makers to further develop cooperation aimed at regional intergovernmental agreements or legal instruments. The book may also find readers among other …

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​Near-real- time observations of Atmospheric Brown Cloud transport to high Himalayas by Nepal Climate Observatory – Pyramid, 5079 m

​Near-real- time observations of Atmospheric Brown Cloud transport to high Himalayas by Nepal Climate Observatory – Pyramid, 5079 m

Report | 2010

A thick haze is clearly discernible by NCO-P web-cam images taken on April 7 during morning and afternoon conditions, testifying the extension of Atmospheric Brown Cloud up to high Himalayas. Unusually high AOD values were detected at the NCO-P station …

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Compendium of Good Practices on Prevention and Control of Air Pollution

Compendium of Good Practices on Prevention and Control of Air Pollution

Report | 2008

This report discusses the key issues related to emissions of air pollutants in South Asia and compiles good practices on control and prevention of emission of key transboundry air pollutants. 

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Youth for Clean Air

Youth for Clean Air

Report | 2007

The document 'Youth for Clean Air' contains two sections. The first section discusses the sources of air pollution and its impacts, as identified by the young people and their views on the wide-range of air pollution problems we are facing …

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