Air Quality ManagementPartnerships

WB Pollution Management and Environmental Health and WMO Global Atmosphere Watch

Gary KleimanLek Kadeli

WB Environment and Natural Resources Practice

WMO-GAW Annual SymposiumApril 2017

Global Practice for Environment and Natural Resources (ENR GP)

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This includes Air Quality

Management

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PMEH Multi Donor Trust Fund includes a

partnershipcomponent!

Working with Low and Middle Income Countries on AQM, examples

World Bank Full-scale AQMP and lending:• Peru• Mexico• Chile• Thailand• Colombia• Lao• Bulgaria• Vietnam• Bangladesh

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PMEH MDTF AQMP:

The Air Quality Management Framework

Issues for the GWA and possible collaboration with the WB:How does GWA activities in the 2016-23 period fit into the AQM planning process (e.g. strengthen monitoring technologies in WPs 3, 2 and 5)?How does strengthening of forecasting capacities fit into AQM planning?

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Guiding report to advise on World Bank’s approach to Air Quality Management (AQM).

Clean Air and Healthy Lungs Report:• Reviewed all 83 Bank air pollution-

related lending and TA projects from 2001-2013.

• Only 3 projects had applied extensive AQM planning to set PM and EH targets in the project portfolio.

• Is now becoming a prerequisite in new PMEH/AQM-related projects.

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ENR EH/AQM Activities Benefit from International Partnerships

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• World Bank is already taking the lead on education/awareness• Open Learning Campus (OLC) Curriculum:• Air Quality Management Series

• Overview Course• Air Quality Monitoring and Data Management• Emission Inventory/Tracking Progress• Source Attribution• Health Analysis• Decision Support: Developing and Assessing Control Strategies• Stakeholder Engagement and Regulatory Approaches

• Facilitated courses developed in partnership with US EPA

Additional Client Needs & Potential Role of Partners

• US-EPA & South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD)• Low-cost sensor testing and quality control• Network protocols• AirNow data management system/AQ Index

• Environmental Defense Fund Atmospheric Sensor Workgroup• Low- and medium-cost sensor guidance• Facilitate data standards, units of measurement, common definitions to

enable global integration of datasets

• World Meteorological Organization• Global Atmospheric Watch (GAW) program review (This Workshop)• Opportunities for expanded role

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WMO-GAW Partnership Opportunities I

Tailor GAW “local stations” to developing country needs and priorities (A-O-4 and A-O-5 and AER-2)

• Provide SOP/guidance for monitoring PM2.5 in developing country where the range of instruments may be extremely limited, but where guidance and “how to” manuals may be in the greatest need.

• Given the health implications of this pollutant (and the opportunity to improve satellite-derived observations with low-cost ground-based measurements), WMO should help expand the network for PM2.5

• Focus on enabling collection of one parameter well, rather than trying to capture a range of parameters and failing

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WMO-GAW Partnership Opportunities II

Support improvement of global remote sensing products to inform local station partners (A-O-7 and A-O-8 and GURME-5)• Partner with SPARTAN and other observing networks designed to

improve the performance of remote sensing products.• Partner with NASA-ARSET, ESA and others to develop applications

based on these products to serve air quality reporting and forecasting needs

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WMO-GAW Partnership Opportunities IIIExpand activities under GURME and the World Data Centres (A-QA-5 and A-QA-6 and AER-3) to support operational data management for continuous monitoring technologies deployed in lower- and middle-income countries• Provide archival/storage services that ensure security and protect

autonomy of developing countries to ease collection and retention of data where monitors have been deployed

• Provide automated QA/QC functionality to enable and support quality reviews

• Provide globally applicable ready-to-use software package to enable real-time reporting, index calculation and potentially forecasting tools (in the model of the AirNow, SAFAR, NRT and air quality forecasting pilot projects; A-M-8 and A-M-9 and GURME-6)*

* Potentially build on collaboration between the World Bank, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) around hydromet services.

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Possible formalization of collaboration between the GAW process (through WMO) and the World Bank.

• Have 3 MOU/TOCs between the World Bank and WMO (Strengthen Climate Change & Disaster Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa and overall National Disaster prevention, mitigation, climate change, El Nino and Social Economic Development).

• Separate MOU may be needed on pollution management particularly focusing on AQM (either separately or with UNEP and WHO).

• Current collaboration approach with PMEH MDTF is to engage WMO through the Technical Advisory Group (very substantive inputs from the WMO team).

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Thank You and More Information

• http://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/pollution-management-and-environmental-health-program• http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/environment/brief/pollution• http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/environment/brief/pmeh

• https://www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.intlpartners• http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/arep/gaw/gaw_home_en.html• http://safar.tropmet.res.in/

• https://www.edf.org/clean-air-initiatives

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