Safe to Breathe Analyses and Recommendations for Improving Ambient Air Quality Management in Ethiopia

This report is the synthesis of the key findings and recommendations of the studies carried out under the World Bank’s Advisory Services & Analytics program entitled “Ethiopia: Air Quality Management and Urban Mobility.” The report is organized as follows. After an introduction, Chapter two is a...

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Main Authors: Xie, Jian, Jia, Wenyu, Croitoru, Lelia, Guttikunda, Sarath, Grutter, Jurg
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Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
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spelling okr-10986-362872021-09-23T12:48:14Z Safe to Breathe Analyses and Recommendations for Improving Ambient Air Quality Management in Ethiopia Xie, Jian Jia, Wenyu Croitoru, Lelia Guttikunda, Sarath Grutter, Jurg AIR POLLUTION POLLUTION CONTROL AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT HEALTH IMPACT PARTICULATE MATTER VEHICLE EMISSIONS URBAN TRANSIT CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION This report is the synthesis of the key findings and recommendations of the studies carried out under the World Bank’s Advisory Services & Analytics program entitled “Ethiopia: Air Quality Management and Urban Mobility.” The report is organized as follows. After an introduction, Chapter two is an overview of air pollution issues, including air pollutants and impacts, the air quality situation in Addis Ababa (AA), and institutional arrangements for AQM in Ethiopia. Chapter three assesses the health impact of air pollution in AA and valuates its economic costs. Chapter four summarizes the study results of emission inventory and source apportionment, while Chapter five proposes and prioritizes the mitigation measures for transport air pollution control. The final chapter provides recommendations and a road map that Ethiopia might take to address emerging air pollution problems and improve AQM nationwide and in AA over the next ten years. 2021-09-20T17:21:15Z 2021-09-20T17:21:15Z 2021-09-16 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/157211631857088360/Safe-to-Breathe-Analyses-and-Recommendations-for-Improving-Ambient-Air-Quality-Management-in-Ethiopia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36287 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Other Environmental Study Africa Africa Eastern and Southern (AFE) Ethiopia
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topic AIR POLLUTION
POLLUTION CONTROL
AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT
HEALTH IMPACT
PARTICULATE MATTER
VEHICLE EMISSIONS
URBAN TRANSIT
CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION
spellingShingle AIR POLLUTION
POLLUTION CONTROL
AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT
HEALTH IMPACT
PARTICULATE MATTER
VEHICLE EMISSIONS
URBAN TRANSIT
CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION
Xie, Jian
Jia, Wenyu
Croitoru, Lelia
Guttikunda, Sarath
Grutter, Jurg
Safe to Breathe Analyses and Recommendations for Improving Ambient Air Quality Management in Ethiopia
geographic_facet Africa
Africa Eastern and Southern (AFE)
Ethiopia
description This report is the synthesis of the key findings and recommendations of the studies carried out under the World Bank’s Advisory Services & Analytics program entitled “Ethiopia: Air Quality Management and Urban Mobility.” The report is organized as follows. After an introduction, Chapter two is an overview of air pollution issues, including air pollutants and impacts, the air quality situation in Addis Ababa (AA), and institutional arrangements for AQM in Ethiopia. Chapter three assesses the health impact of air pollution in AA and valuates its economic costs. Chapter four summarizes the study results of emission inventory and source apportionment, while Chapter five proposes and prioritizes the mitigation measures for transport air pollution control. The final chapter provides recommendations and a road map that Ethiopia might take to address emerging air pollution problems and improve AQM nationwide and in AA over the next ten years.
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author Xie, Jian
Jia, Wenyu
Croitoru, Lelia
Guttikunda, Sarath
Grutter, Jurg
author_facet Xie, Jian
Jia, Wenyu
Croitoru, Lelia
Guttikunda, Sarath
Grutter, Jurg
author_sort Xie, Jian
title Safe to Breathe Analyses and Recommendations for Improving Ambient Air Quality Management in Ethiopia
title_short Safe to Breathe Analyses and Recommendations for Improving Ambient Air Quality Management in Ethiopia
title_full Safe to Breathe Analyses and Recommendations for Improving Ambient Air Quality Management in Ethiopia
title_fullStr Safe to Breathe Analyses and Recommendations for Improving Ambient Air Quality Management in Ethiopia
title_full_unstemmed Safe to Breathe Analyses and Recommendations for Improving Ambient Air Quality Management in Ethiopia
title_sort safe to breathe analyses and recommendations for improving ambient air quality management in ethiopia
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2021
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/157211631857088360/Safe-to-Breathe-Analyses-and-Recommendations-for-Improving-Ambient-Air-Quality-Management-in-Ethiopia
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