Accelerating City Progress on Clean Air

The document provides a comprehensive framework for understanding and deploying innovation and partnership models that inform, evaluate, and build sustained support for local, regional, and national clean air measures. The guide is mainly intended for government officials, technical partners, and other stakeholders in cities and metropolitan areas with limited local air quality management capacity and with levels of air pollutants that are well in excess of health-based standards and/or increasing steadily. It is also relevant to similar audiences at state/provincial and national levels seeking to accelerate clean air actions. It describes how to build on past successes and deploy recent innovations and partnership models to reduce the complexity and cost of obtaining and using data to inform, implement, evaluate and build support for sustained clean air actions.