air quality plan

Ricardo recently held 2 webinars with colleagues from Odisha and Guanajuato to discuss our reviews of the Clean Air Action Plans prepared for each city.

Thanks for your participation and the lively discussions!

As part of the second Community of Practice event, Martin Lutz returned to talk to us about Low Emission Zones in Europe, and specifically the experience in Berlin. His presentation will be shared on the Breathable Cities site in due course, but in the meantime, please take the chance to look at the following information available at the links below: Access restrictions in Europe: http://urbanaccessregulations.eu/ Berlin's LEZ: https://www.berlin.de/sen/uvk/en/environment/low-emission-zone/  Berlin‘s Air Quality Plan (now available in English): https://www.berlin.de/sen/uvk/en/environment/  LEZs in Germany: http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/umweltzonen/index.htm AIR (Allow Independent Road testing) initiative: http://www.allowair.org/

A recent report conducted by the Centre for Science and Environment assesses how actively state pollution control boards/committees display and disclose key environment and governance-related information in the public domain.

The report highlights a lack of uniformity in the display of the available information. Odisha, Telangana, Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh boards/committees rated the most transparent among 35 such organisations studied.

Follow the link to find the report and read more about the assessment.