[sustran] FW: [cai-asia] CAI-Asia India Forum

[Paul Barter]

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From: anumita [mailto:anumita at cseindia.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, 15 May 2002 5:24 PM
To: Clean Air Initiative -- Asia
Subject: [cai-asia] CAI-Asia India Forum


CAI Asia initiates the India Forum in a joint roundtable 
organised along with the Centre for Science and Environment in 
New Delhi on May 11. This interface brought together the key 
stakeholders -- automobile industry, petroleum sector, civil 
society groups and city representatives from Delhi, Mumbai, 
Kolkata and Chennai to kick start a process of partnership 
within the CAI process.
  
This first meeting of the India Forum focused on strengthening of 
local action with a global interface and the role of city 
governments in improving urban air quality through partnership 
with other stakeholders in the region to speed up technology 
transformation across the region to meet clean air goals. This 
forum has identified key areas of intervention such as emissions 
from in use vehicles, public transport, fuel quality, emissions from 
two wheelers and fuel adulteration and expects future 
cooperation in these areas through the Asia partnership network. 

Enthusiastic participation of all present in the meeting and their 
willingness to contribute to the dialogue process in the future is 
encouraging. Corporate representatives include Society for 
Indian Automobile Manufacturers, Telco, Ashok Leyland, TVS 
Suzuki, Maruti Udyog Ltd, Daewoo Motors and Indraprastha 
Gas Ltd.  From the regulatory and testing agencies we had 
Central Pollution Control Board, Automobile Research 
Association of India (ARAI), and Indian Institute of Petroleum. 
Bombay Environment Action Group from among the civil society 
groups in Mumbai. City government representation includes 
Delhi Transport Minister, and officials from State Pollution 
Control Boards of Chennai and West Bengal. 

The representatives of CAI from the World Bank, Asian 
Development Bank and from World Health Organisation, 
briefed the gathering about the CAI process and APMA 
respectively. 

After this first `getting to know each other and their work' 
meeting the interested members of the Forum will look into the 
possibilities of structuring a process to effectively participate in 
the CAI process. The Delhi meeting is in line with a series of 
other such similar meetings being organized in other cities of 
Asia such as in Bangkok and Jakarta to create Asia-wide city 
network as part of CAI process.


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