ľ¹ÏÓ°Ôº¡¯s Pollution Management and Environmental Health (PMEH) program supported an air quality management (AQM) policy study tour to Germany, Netherlands and Austria, which engaged 23 Chinese AQM officials from the Jingjinji region. Officials included representatives from the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, Chaoyang District Environmental Protection Bureau, Daxing District Environmental Protection Bureau, Hebei Environmental Protection Department, Hebei Environmental Emergency Response and Heavy Pollution Alert Center, Baoding Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, Langfang Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, Tianjin Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau and the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences.
Many of the Chinese officials work on the Hebei Air Pollution Prevention and Control Program, which aims to reduce PM2.5 in Beijing and the surrounding regions by 25 percent by 2017 compared to 2012. ľ¹ÏÓ°Ôº supports the Hebei Air Pollution Prevention and Control Program via a Program-for-Results lending instrument.
The study tour was designed to support the policy makers to enhance capacity in developing and implementing the measures of their 13th Five Year Plan air quality plan by sharing experience managing air quality in Europe.
The agenda included the following presentations (all materials are available ):
, by Wang Jing, Foreign Economic Cooperation Office, Ministry of Environmental Protection of China.
, by Jostein Nygard, Program Manager, World Bank PMEH Program.
, Karl-Ludwig H¨¹ttner, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (31 May 2017)
, Ronan N¨¦d¨¦lec, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (31 May 2017)
, Dr. Klaus Vogt, State Agency for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection, North Rhine, Germany (31 May 2017)
, Dr. Wolfgang Volkhausen, Thyssen (1 June 2017)
, Elliot Terhane, Mayor of London (5 June 2017)
, Jim Longhurst, University of West England, Bristol (5 June 2017)
, Martin Bigg, University of West England, Bristol (5 June 2017)
, Thomas Henrichs, European Commission, DG-ENV, Unit C.3 (1 June 2017)
, Leo Oprel, Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs (6 June 2017)
, Rob Maas, Netherlands National Institute for Health and Environment (6 June 2017)
, Karin Groenestein and Andr¨¦ Aarnink, Wageningen UR (6 June 2017)
AQM Modeling to Support Policy Decisions, including application of GAINS in Jingjinji and cost-effectiveness analysis, Marcus Amann, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) (7 June 2017)
Presentations in Chinese
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Presentations in English
, Markus Amann, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg (June 7, 2017)
, Markus Amann, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg (June 7, 2017)
, Markus Amann, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg (June 7, 2017)
, Markus Amann, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg (June 7, 2017)
The cost-effectiveness approach to AQM in Europe, Markus Amann, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg (June 7, 2017)