dc.contributor.author	World Bank
dc.date.accessioned	2025-05-02T15:45:35Z
dc.date.available	2025-05-02T15:45:35Z
dc.date.issued	2025-05-02
dc.description.abstract	This report aims to enhance the understanding of the priorities, needs, and solutions for improving air quality (AQ) in Central Asia (CA) through local action and regional collaboration. It focuses on key components of holistic air quality management (AQM): evidence-based analytics to identify the main sources of air pollution in CA, application of modern tools to assess the impact of cost-effective measures to improve AQ, assessment of the institutional and governance setup for AQM in CA with recommendations to strengthen it, and approaches to financing AQ improvement. Given the lack of comprehensive systematic and validated emission inventories of all PM2.5 precursor emissions, the technical assessment employs the regional emission inventory of the Greenhouse Gas - Air Pollution Interactions and Synergies (GAINS) model. Input data were updated for this study based on recent energy statistics and relevant national surveys. This report addresses emissions and the regional transboundary flows of pollution between Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Subsequently, the resulting PM2.5 concentrations in ambient air throughout CA were computed with the atmospheric chemistry and transport calculations of the GAINS model. Employing the source apportionment results of the GAINS model, the analysis then examines the contributions to PM2.5 population exposure. The report also presents source apportionment analyses for important air pollution hot spots in CA: Dushanbe (Tajikistan), Bishkek (the Kyrgyz Republic), Tashkent (Uzbekistan), Samarkand (Uzbekistan), Astana, and Almaty (Kazakhstan).	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099050125114034648
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/43152
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/43152
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
dc.rights	CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo
dc.subject	GOOD HEALTH
dc.subject	AIR POLLUTION
dc.subject	AIR QUALITY
dc.subject	AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT (AQM)
dc.title	Air Quality Management in Central Asia	en
dc.title.subtitle	Summary Report	en
dc.type	Report
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.date.disclosure	2025-05-02
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-05-04T02:17:05.503802Z
okr.date.lastmodified	2025-05-02T14:05:51Z	en
okr.doctype	Economic & Sector Work::Other Environmental Study
okr.doctype	Economic & Sector Work
okr.docurl	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099050125114034648
okr.guid	099050125114034648
okr.identifier.docmid	P500574-a4096826-eb6e-48a6-a3f6-fe0585396fea
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum	40010343
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum	40010343
okr.identifier.report	201071
okr.import.id	7277
okr.imported	true	en
okr.language.supported	en
okr.pdfurl	https://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099050125114034648/pdf/P500574-a4096826-eb6e-48a6-a3f6-fe0585396fea.pdf	en
okr.region.geographical	Central Asia
okr.topic	Environment::Air Quality & Clean Air
okr.topic	Environment::Pollution Management & Control
okr.topic	Environment::Persistent Organic Pollutants
okr.topic	Environment::Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::Environment and Health
okr.unit	ECA ENR PM 1 (SCAE1)

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