BAQ 2008
The Better Air Quality 2008 (BAQ 2008) workshop was held in Bangkok, Thailand on 12 – 14 November 2008. More >>
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This was the 5th BAQ workshop that CAI-Asia had organized with the active support and contribution of its local partners in the different host countries as well as the Asian Development Bank and a range of other supporting and private sector organizations.
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Press Releases
By Andrew C. Revkin
Lee Schipper, a specialist on cities, transportation and pollution diving time between Stanford and Berkeley, is a frequent presence on Dot Earth and a source for me when pondering how the world heads toward nine billion mainly-urban humans with the fewest traffic jams and smog alerts. He sent the following note from a conference in Bangkok on cleaning the air in Asian cities. You may have seen the news on Asia’s growing brown clouds this week.
Postcard from Better Air Quality ‘08:
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MANILA, PHILIPPINES (12 November 2008) – Asia must continue to mobilize resources to cut air pollution and address climate change despite financing pressures caused by the global economic crisis, said Asia Development Bank (ADB) Vice-President Ursula Schäfer-Preuss.
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BANGKOK, THAILAND, November 14, 2008: Although China has many inefficient and polluting coal-fired power plants, it is taking large strides in adopting cleaner coal technologies when constructing coal-fired plants.
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