17th World Clean Air Conference & 9th Better Air Quality Conference (BAQ)

Background:

The Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) is a transformative global partnership of countries, international organizations, NGOs, and the private sector, seeking to rapidly reduce short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) like black carbon, methane, and HFCs.

The waste sector can make direct and indirect contributions to each type of SLCP, however, methane emitted from landfilled waste is the most significant SLCP associated with the management of municipal waste. In the majority of countries around the world, controlled and uncontrolled landfilling of waste is the primary disposal method.

Methane is a tropospheric ozone precursor and black carbon is emitted from open burning and inefficient high duty diesel trucks used for waste collection and transfers, both having local impacts in air quality, public health and agricultural productivity.

The CCAC Municipal Solid Waste Initiative aims to reduce emissions of SLCPs across the MSW sector by providing a comprehensive package of resources, technical capacity building, and a global network of cities to facilitate the design and implementation of locally appropriate actions and to provide support to cities and national governments to scale up and replicate individual actions within countries and across borders, through actions such as: extending collection coverage, improving waste transport, source separation, extracting materials from waste, composting or digesting biodegradable waste, establishing sanitary landfills and capturing and utilizing landfill gas.

Objective/s:

To drive awareness of the opportunities of improved waste management practices to reduce GHG emissions and improve Air Quality.
To showcase good practices happening in cities and countries participating in the CCAC MSW Initiative to reduce SLCP emissions and improve Air Quality
To reach out to more cities, national governments and organizations to participate in the CCAC MSW Initiative.

Target Participants:

City Governments, National Governments, Technical Experts, Civil Society

Contact:

Ricardo Cepeda-Márquez

Head of the Solid Waste Initiative

C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

Email: rcepeda@c40.org

Phone: +52 15534304057

A number of green freight and logistics initiatives have been initiated in many countries in the ASEAN region involving either or both public and private sectors. There have been efforts also to promote a regional framework on green freight to ensure a harmonized approach and to maximize cross-learning of best practices among countries and private sector players. The CCAC identified tangible actions that are meant to address main challenges in the world of green freight thru the Global Green Freight Action Plan.

The Green Freight and Logistics Day will highlight previous and current green freight initiatives in Asia, which will be shared by country representatives from South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia. Experiences and best practices from the US and other advanced countries will be showcased in the event.  Similarly, there will be a presentation on how to access climate finance for green freight.

Objective/s:

1. Sharing of best practices among countries and private sector players to advance the development and harmonization of green freight programs to reduce the emissions intensity of carbon dioxide (CO2), black carbon, and other air pollutants from freight transport globally.
2. Enhanced coordination on the different green freight initiatives from the government and private sector in the region
3. Present on GLEC framework that provides for universal and transparent way of calculating logistics emissions across the global multi-modal supply chain
4. Sharing of opportunities on how to access climate finance for green freight

This one-day workshop on Clean Buses is targeted at city officials, transport agencies (including national agencies), bus manufacturers and other fuel and vehicle industry stakeholders. The workshop is being organized as part of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition’s (CCAC) Soot-Free Urban Buses project. The project is supporting cities in shifting new bus purchases to that which can achieve the lowest technically feasible black carbon emissions matched by current fuel quality, and to make a public commitment to shift all new bus purchases to soot-free engines by a target date.

Agenda includes:

• Presentations from CCAC partners on the case for Soot-Free Buses, and an overview of fuel and vehicle technology pathways;
• Discussions on the demand for Soot-Free Buses in cities and regions, and progress and challenges to date;

• Industry presentations on the supply and availability of Soot-Free Buses and fuels;
• Opportunities for feedback and discussion with industry representatives; and
• Agreeing next steps, including discussion of potential commitments on buses.

Participants: city and national transport/ environment officials, transport agencies, bus manufacturers and other stakeholders

Registration: There are limited spaces available to attend the workshop. To secure a place, please send an email to Gunjan Parik at gparik@c40.org before Friday 26 August 2016 with your name, title, organisation and contact details.

Short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) are agents that have relatively short lifetime in the atmosphere - a few days to a few decades - and a warming influence on climate. The main SLCPs are black carbon, methane and tropospheric ozone. Aside from contributing to global warming, SLCPs have negative impacts to human health, agriculture and ecosystems. Scientific studies have shown that quick and large-scale actions to reduce sources of SLCPs can have mitigating effects to climate warming which can be observed soon after control measures are implemented. Addressing SLCPs also yield benefits with respect to food security and public health.

The CCAC is reducing SLCPs by focusing on practical action in 11 key areas. These 11 initiatives were chosen to ensure rapid delivery of climate and clean air benefits by reducing key SLCPs, including methane, black carbon and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). They seek to promote near-term reductions of SLCPs at a substantial scale worldwide, and to engage high-level stakeholders. Key areas focusing on single sector activities include waste, bricks, diesel (transport), agriculture and cookstoves while initiatives on cross-cutting sectors involve finance, assessments and health.

Objective/s:

• To enable sharing of achievements and lessons learned from initiatives undertaken to reduce SLCPs in key areas
• To provide a platform for session speakers and participants to discuss opportunities for ensuring sustainability of actions in key areas

Short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) are agents that have relatively short lifetime in the atmosphere - a few days to a few decades - and a warming influence on climate. The main SLCPs are black carbon, methane and tropospheric ozone. Aside from contributing to global warming, SLCPs have negative impacts to human health, agriculture and ecosystems. Scientific studies have shown that quick and large-scale actions to reduce sources of SLCPs can have mitigating effects to climate warming which can be observed soon after control measures are implemented. Addressing SLCPs also yield benefits with respect to food security and public health.

The CCAC is reducing SLCPs by focusing on practical action in 11 key areas. These 11 initiatives were chosen to ensure rapid delivery of climate and clean air benefits by reducing key SLCPs, including methane, black carbon and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). They seek to promote near-term reductions of SLCPs at a substantial scale worldwide, and to engage high-level stakeholders. Key areas focusing on single sector activities include waste, bricks, diesel (transport), agriculture and cookstoves while initiatives on cross-cutting sectors involve finance, assessments and health.