Workshop presentations (PDFs)

• Poon Chung-kwong
  President, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Alan Lloyd
  Chairman, California Air Resources Board
• Wha-Jin Han
  Director, Air Pollution in the Megacities of Asia program, Korea Environment Institute
• Rogelio Uranza
  Chairperson, Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities
• Sarah Liao
  Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works, Hong Kong, China

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• Air pollution status and control strategy in the PRC
  Li Lei, Director, Division of Air and Noise Pollution Control, State Environmental Protection, PRC
• Air quality management in California
  C. Hugh Friedman, Board Member, California Air Resources Board
• Challenges to air quality management in Asia
  Anumita Roychowdhury, Centre for Science and Environment and Co-Chair, Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities
• Public health and air pollution in Asia (PAPA)
  Daniel Greenbaum, President and Robert O’Keefe, Vice President, Health Effects Institute
• Role of the international community in reducing air pollution in Asia
  Frannie Leautier, Vice President, World Bank
• Synopsis of sub-workshops
  Hung Wing-tat, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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Lead Experts: Dieter Schwela and Supat Wangwongwatana

• Introduction to the sub-workshop
  Dr Dieter Schwela, WHO
• Transboundary air pollution problems in Asia
  Mylvakanam Iyngararasan, Senior Programme Officer, UNEP RRC.AP
• Indoor air pollution as part of overall air pollution in Asian cities
  Lidia Morawska, Director, Environmental Aerosol Laboratory, School of Physical Sciences Queensland University of Technology
• Air quality management in Indian cities: trends and challenges
  R.N. Singh, National Environmental Engineering Research Institute
• Air quality management in Pakistan cities: trends and challenges
  Noman Qadir, Chief Executive, Global Environment Technologies
• Air quality management in Bangkok: trends and challenges
  Supat Wangwongwatana, Deputy Director General, Pollution Control Department
• Jakarta air quality management: trends and policies
  Kosasih Wirahadikusumah, Head of Environment Office, DKI Jakarta
• Air quality management in Singapore
  Tan Wee Hock, Singapore National Environment Agency
• Air quality management practice in Europe
  Gary Haq, Research Associate, Stockholm Environment Institute, Biology Department, University of York
• Strategic framework for air quality management
  Dietrich Schwela, Air Pollution Scientist, Department of Protection of the Human Environment, Occupational and Environmental Health Programme, World Health Organization
• Integrated air quality management strategies for cities
  Dale Evarts, International Programs Coordinator, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, US Environmental Protection Agency
• Capacity enhancement in air quality management
  John Hay, Senior Advisor, United Nations Environment Programme
• Recommendations

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Lead Experts: Frank Murray and Raymond Leung

• Role of monitoring in air quality management
  Jon Bower, Chief Consultant, AEA Technology Environment
• Ambient air quality monitoring in PRC
  Wan Bentai, Director, PRC Environmental Monitoring Center
• Air quality monitoring in Beijing, PRC
  Yu Tong, Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Center
• Air quality monitoring in Ho Chi Minh City
  Vo Thanh Dam, Specialist on Air Quality Monitoring, Department of Science, Technology and Environment, Viet Nam
• Air quality monitoring in Singapore
  Chin Yong Koh, Singapore National Environment Agency
• Acid deposition monitoring
  Mylvakanam Iyngararasan, Senior Programme Officer, United Nations Environment Programme Regional Resource Center for Asia and the Pacific (UNEP RRC.AP)
• Air quality monitoring network management in Hong Kong, China
  Peter Louie, Environmental Protection Department, Hong Kong, China
• Ambient air quality monitoring in Guangzhou
  Zhang G X, Guangzhou Environmental Monitoring Centre, PRC
• Air toxic monitoring network assessment
  Jeffrey Cook, Chief, Quality Management Branch, Monitoring and Laboratory Division, California Air Resources Board
• Replacement of air quality measurements with model calculations
  Axel Friedrich, Federal Environmental Agency, Germany
• Recommendations

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Lead Experts: Barbara Finamore and Dilip Biswas

• Overview of stationary source pollution control and their management in the United States
  Barbara Finamore, Natural Resources Defense Council
• A history and status of continuous emissions monitoring system (CEMS) applications in USEPA regulations
  Dale Evarts, International Programs Coordinator, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, US Environmental Protection Agency
• Air pollution control strategy for China’s power sector
  Yang Jintian, Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning
• Overview of stationary sources of pollution and their management in India
  Dr. B. Sengupta, Central Pollution Control Board
• Overview of stationary sources of pollution and their management in Thailand
  Mingquan Wichayarangsaridh, Pollution Control Department, Thailand
• Burning our future: the true costs of building coal-fired power plants
  Red Constantino, Greenpeace Southeast Asia
• Emission trading: challenges and opportunities
  Ruth Greenspan Bell, Director, International Institutional Development and Environmental Assistance, Resources for the Future
• Emission trading: will it work for PRC’s SO2 emission and acid rain control?
  Shiqiu Zhang, School of Environment, Peking University, Beijing, PRC
• Continuous emission monitoring (CEM) network - Leading to emission trading
  Walailuck Borrell, Pollution Control Department, Thailand
• The role of development agencies in facilitating emission trading
  Piya Abeygunawardena, Principal Economist (Environment), Infrastructure Division, East and Central Asia Department, Asian Development Bank
• Generation performance standards
  Paul Hibbard, Lexecon, Inc.
• Recommendations

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Lead Experts: Michael Walsh and Fu Lixin

• Introduction and overview
  Michael Walsh, International Consultant
• Key issues for the successful implementation of inspection and maintenance (I/M) Program
  Lixin Fu, Tsinghua University
• Global and Hong Kong, China experiences with retrofitting in-use diesel vehicles
  • Retrofit Emission Control Technologies for On- and Off-Road Diesel Engines
    Dale McKinnon, Deputy Director, Manufacturers of Emission Controls Association
  • Hong Kong Experience in Retrofitting In-use Diesel Vehicles
    Matthew Tsang, Environmental Protection Officer, Environmental Protection Department, Hong Kong, China
• Efforts to reduce pollution from 2-wheelers in India and across Asia
  Narayan Iyer, Bajaj Auto, India
• Motor vehicle emission control in Japan
  Kotaro Kawamata, Environment Management Office, Ministry of the Environment, Japan
• International vehicle emissions modeling
  James Lents, University of California at Riverside
• Cost of diesel fuel desulphurization in Asian refineries
  Mario Camarsa, Executive Director, Enstrat International
• Reducing diesel sulfur: A linear programming model analysis of adopting EURO standards in China
  Nancy Yamaguchi, President, Trans-Energy Research Associates, Inc.
• Issues and potential benefits of compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles
  Lit-mian Chan, Senior Engineer, Engine Fuels and Emissions Engineering, Inc.
• Worldwide fuel quality trends: focus on Asia
  Liisa Kiuru, Director, Asia, International Fuel Quality Center, Hart Downstream Energy Services, Singapore Office
• World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) Clean fuels and vehicles partnership
  John Beale, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation, US-EPA
• Diesel emissions: the “next” challenge in air quality management in Asia
  Jitu Shah, Senior Environmental Specialist, World Bank
• Recommendations

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Lead Experts: Jian Xie and Neric Acosta

• Institutional challenges for air quality management
  Charles Melhuish, Lead Transport Sector Specialist, Asian Development Bank and Cornie Huizenga, CAI-Asia Secretariat
• Institutional challenges to the implementation of the Bangladesh air quality management project
  Derek Langgons and Rehana Akhter, Dhaka Air Quality Management Project
• Structural reform and institutional and regulatory framework for air quality management
  Neric Acosta, House of Representatives, Republic of the Philippines
• Urban air quality management: applications of market-based instruments
  Jian Xie, Senior Environmental Specialist, World Bank
• Air quality management in Kitakyushu City
  Tetsuya Ishida, Expert, Environmental Protection Division, Environment Bureau, City of Kitakyushu, Japan
• The importance of governance to achieving clean air
  Lee Schipper, Co-Director, EMBARQ
• Building institutional capacity in the science-policy interface for regional worldwide air quality management
  Lars Nordberg, Adviser on International Legislation on Air Pollution, Sweden
• Urban redevelopment and air quality in Fushun, PRC
  Simon Eggleston, AEA Technology
• New ways to combat air pollution from mobile sources in new institutional arrangement perspectives
  Rasio Ridho Sani, Mitra Emisi Bersih (Partnership for Clean Emissions), Jakarta, Indonesia
• An action model of public-private partnership for cleaner air
  Wing-tat Hung, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
• Capacity building for air quality management in Asia: the role of distance learning
  Paul Procee, Urban Environmental Specialist, World Bank
• Clean air training network for Asia (CATNet-Asia)
  Ronald Subida, Member, Clean Air Training Network for Asia
• Recommendations

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Lead Experts: Alan Lloyd and Chan Lo-yin

• Introduction to the sub workshop
  Alan Lloyd, Chairman, California Air Resources Board
• Perspectives on climate change
  Thomas J. Gross, Member, Board of Directors, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, US Department of Energy
• Addressing air quality and climate through soot control
  Mark Z. Jacobson, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
• The environment change in the last thirty years of the main regions in China Mainland
  Yun-Feng Luo, Department of Earth Sciences, Peking University
• Tropospheric ozone and trace gas measurements in China: implications on climate change
  John C. Y. Chan, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
• Sustainable urban transport sector and possibilities for CO2 mitigation
  Sudhakar Yedla, Assistant Professor, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India
• Local actions move the world: the Cities for Climate Protection^TM campaign
  Pamela Gallares-Oppus, Regional Manager, Climate Change Program - Southeast Asia, Cities for Climate Protection Campaign, International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)
• Strategic response to mitigate climate change: ADB’s climate change-related programs
  Yue-Lang Feng, Senior Environment Specialist, Asian Development Bank
• Some characteristics of ozone profiles over Hong Kong, China
  W.L. Chang, Senior Scientific Officer, Hong Kong Observatory, Hong Kong, China
• Photochemical ozone pollution in southern and eastern PRC
  T. Wang, Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
• Mega-suburb heat-island effect over Taipei,China western plain
  Shaw Liu, Environmental Change Research Centre, Institute of Earth Sciences Academia Sinica, Taipei,China
• The trend of acid rain in PRC
  W. X. Wang, Professor, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, PRC
• Recommendations

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• Air quality management in Delhi
  G K Pandey, Ministry of Environment and Forests, India
• Retrospection and perspective on Shanghai air pollution control management
  Zhang Quan, Deputy Environment Director, Shanghai, PRC (Powerpoint)
• Clean air Santiago experience
  Gianni Lopez, Director of the National Commission for the Environment, Chile
• Tokyo’s experience toward cleaner air
  Yuko Nishida, Planning Section, The Bureau of Environment, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Japan
• Busan, South Korea
  Eun-Chul Yoo, Researcher, Institute of Health and Environment, Busan Metropolitan Government
• Air quality management in Kathmandu
  Rabin Man Shrestha, Head of Urban Environment Section, Kathmandu Metropolitan City Office, Nepal
• Air quality management in Hong Kong, China
  Raymond Leung, Acting Assistant Director (Air), Environmental Protection Department, Hong Kong, China
• Air quality progress in Los Angeles
  Jeff Cook, Chief, Quality Management Branch, Monitoring and Laboratory Division, California Air Resources Board

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• Civil society perspective
  Anumita Roychowdhury, Centre for Science and Environment, India
• Development agency perspective
  Charles Melhuish, Lead Transport Sector Specialist, Asian Development Bank
• National government agency perspective
  Tanwir Yazid Mukawi, Ministry of Environment, Indonesia
• Legal community perspective
  Antonio A. Oposa, Jr., Environmental Lawyer, Philippines
• Urban poor perspective
  Tubagus Haryo Karbyanto, Jakarta Residents Forum (FAKTA), Indonesia
• Private sector perspective
  Ean-Bee Loke, Fuels Manager, Shell Global Solutions (Singapore) Pte Ltd.

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• The establishment of industry, government and private partnerships for the improvement of air quality in the Asia Pacific region
  Sam Coulson, Regional Manager - Asia Pacific, Ford Motor Company
• Challenges ahead in air quality management in Asia
  Supat Wangwongwatana, Deputy Director General, Pollution Control Department, Thailand
• Challenges facing air quality management in Hong Kong, China
  Robert J S Law, Director of Environmental Protection Department, Hong Kong, China

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• Experimental study on Performances and combustion characteristics of DME powered vehicle
• Performances of Direct Injection Diesel Engine Fueled with DME/diesel blend Fuel
• Air Polution in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
• Improvement to VMT Estimation for Air Quality Analysis
• A Study on the Association of Particulate Air Pollutants and Respiratory Diseases in Metro Manila
• Direct Injection as a Retrofit Strategy for Reducing Emissions from 2-Stroke Cycle Engines in Asia
• Status of Volatile Organic Compounds, Suspended Particulate Matters and Lead in Ambient Air and Indoor Environments in Dhaka City
• Public Awareness to Save the Air
• IAEA Activities in Support of Air Pollution Monitoring in Asia and Pacific Region
• The Control Technology for Emissions of LPG Engine
• Development of Municipal Solid Waste Incineration Technologies
• Performance of DMC blended diesel in reducing pollutant emissions
• Study of Impact of Street Layout and Thermal Radiation on Air Quality by Numerical Simulation
• Traffic Pollution in Xi’an city, PRC
• Suspended Matter in the Urban Air of Kathmandu Valley
• Blood Lead Levels in School Children Resulting from Lead Exposure due to Leaded Petrol Use and Increasing Road Traffic in Pakistan
• Identification of High Emitters by Remote Sensing
• The Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and air pollution in China: The Case of SO2 concentration in Chinese Cities
• Relationship Between Total Ozone and Surface UV in Hong Kong
• Grey Clustering Decision-Making Evaluationon City Street Traffic Atmosphere Pollution
• From Raw Data to Television: How the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s AIRNow System Works
• Carbon Monoxide in Urban Roadside Microenvironments of Macao
• Technological Innovation Supporting a New Funding Approach for Modern Air Quality Management Agencies
• Substrate Effects on VOC Emissions from an Interior Finishing Varnish
• Removal of Indoor Air ppb Level Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and NOx by Heterogeneous Photocatalysis
• Indoor Air Quality Management System at MTR Station and Train
• Characteristics of Organic and Elemental Carbon in PM2.5 of Pearl River Delta Region
• Strategy and Policy adopted in Air Quality Management in India
• Emission Inventory for the Pearl River Delta Region
• Challenges on the Control of Cooking Fume Emissions from Restaurants
• Study of microscale urban air dispersion by ADMS – Urban
• Developing a Real-time Air Quality Simulation System for Hong Kong
• Sustainable transport approaches in developing cities
• Study on the Characteristics of Diesel Engine Exhaust Particulate
• Comparison of vehicle related taxes by cross-section
• Coagulation of Diesel Particulate in an Enclosed Chamber
• The Implementation of Stringent Emission Standards and Fuel Specifications, a Hong Kong Example
• The Bangladesh Air Quality Management Project (AQMP)
• Maximizing the Effectiveness of Water Blended Fuel In Reducing Emissions By Varying Injection Timing Or Using After-treatment Device
• E–DIESEL: AN IMMEDIATE & PRACTICAL AIR QUALITYAND ENERGY SECURITY SOLUTION
• A Clean Biodiesel Fuel Produced fromRecycled Oils and Grease Trap Oils

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