Monitoring the Co-Benefits of Reducing Emissions from Home Cooking and Heating

Organizer:
Partnership for Clean Indoor Air

Objectives:

    The purpose of the pre-event is to present preliminary findings and methods used for monitoring the multiple benefits – health, socioeconomic, environmental – of reducing emissions from burning coal and biomass fuels for home cooking and heating practices in Asia.

•    Share preliminary results, and discover replicable approaches, from monitoring activities that Partner organizations have undertaken since the regional Partnership for Clean Indoor Air workshop “Measuring Change:  Indoor Air Pollution and Household Energy Monitoring” in Hanoi, Vietnam, August 2007;
•    Demonstrate successful household energy monitoring activities for a variety of indicators;
•    Use monitoring results to improve cooking and heating technology and fuels, and to educate stakeholders about the multiple benefits of reducing emissions from home cooking and heating practices in Asia.
•    Identify solutions to common challenges in monitoring;
•    Examine the link between emissions from home cooking and heating and urban air quality in Asia;
•    Provide examples of the monitoring required to demonstrate the reductions in greenhouse gases from improved cooking and heating technology;
•    Draw on expertise of indoor and outdoor (ambient) air experts to achieve the World Health Organizations health-based air quality guidelines in cities in Asia.
•    Offer insights and/or assistance to those who are planning and/or implementing a monitoring initiative; and
•    Develop a regional plan for effectively monitoring the indoor air pollution, socioeconomic, and environmental impacts of household energy programs in Asia.

Schedule and Venue
    11 November 2008 , IQP
Room: Queen's Park 6

Participants: The event is open to a maximum of 30 participants.

Contact/s:
John Mitchell
Coordinator,
Partnership for Clean Indoor Air
US Environmental Protection Agency
Mitchell.John@epamail.epa.gov