Argentina   Advance implementation of priority measures within the framework of Argentina's Resolution 1327/2014 "Intergovernmental Regional Air Pollution Action Plan

Rationale

Argentina needs to update its air quality management policies and national regulatory framework. The National Action Plan, whose implementation was assigned, by Resol. MAyDS 537/2022, to a government area, is based on the Regional Action Plan for Intergovernmental Cooperation on Air Pollution for Latin America and the Caribbean (Resol. SAyDS 1327/2014) and proposes to move forward along this path. 

This project will deliver a regionalized national inventory of SLCP and an analysis of mitigation measures for different socioeconomic sectors of the country, and also an initiative for the development of federal air pollution monitoring with dual effect, both health and climate. The project contemplates the measurement of particulate matter, black carbon and methane emissions for technologies applied to transportation and also, of some of these pollutants in urban ambient air. 

Accordingly, this proposal is based on studies designed by institutions of the national scientific and technical sector with great worldwide prestige and plans the use of technological infrastructure available or under development in the country that can be validated with experiences in neighbouring countries such as Chile, and complemented by measurements with low-cost sensors, which we understand has a high potential to meet the goals and is suitable cost/benefit solution as well as scalable.

Objectives

This project aims to:

1. Develop regionalized SLCP Inventory and Mitigation Measures Contemplated in the NDCs.

2.  Propose a Federal Air Pollutant Monitoring Infrastructure.

3. Assessment and Proposal for Updating the National Regulatory Framework.

4. PM2.5/ BC monitoring in Buenos Aires. Monitoring campaigns with 
low-cost sensors contrasted against reference monitors.

5. Emission Mitigation Assessment in the Automotive Transportation Sector.

6. Emission Mitigation Assessment in the Industry and Energy Sector.

7. National and provincial government capacity building SLCP inventory.

8.  Capacity building for national and provincial governments on SLPC elimination methodologies.

9. Capacity building to Provincial Governments in Legal and Complementary Alternative Monitoring of SLCP and air pollutants.

10. Capacity building to Provincial Governments on SLCP Emissions Monitoring and Mitigation and Normative Framework.

Project Reference: [AR-23-004] Argentina   Advance implementation of priority measures within the framework of Argentina's Resolution 1327/2014 "Intergovernmental Regional Air Pollution Action Plan"