[sustran] FW: Air Quality Management - GTZ Approach

[Paul Barter]

Dear sustran-discussers
This came to me from Manfred Breithaupt of GTZ who asked me to share with you all.
Paul

> 
> "Investing in people's health and their environment 
> is a prerequisite for sustainable development"
> - World Health Organisation 
> 
> Dear Colleagues,
>  
> More than 1.4 billion city dwellers daily breathe in polluted 
> air, containing harmful substances, which often exceeds the 
> standards set by the World Health Organisation (WHO) three- 
> to fourfold. About three million pre-mature deaths, 
> especially among the poor, can be traced directly to the 
> effects of air pollution, and children suffer increasingly 
> from respiratory diseases.
>  
> Mitigating air pollution is an extremely important 
> contribution to improving urban quality of life. GTZ can look 
> back on more than 15 years of experience in the realm of Air 
> Quality Management (AQM). Our advisory services focus 
> primarily on decision-makers in authorities, institutions and 
> organisations on a local, regional and national level. Our 
> target is the reduction of air pollutant emissions through 
> institutional capacity building as well as through numerous 
> measures in the transport, energy, industrial, household and 
> waste sectors.
>  
> GTZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit) is 
> an important and industry-neutral service advisor in the 
> realm of integrated clean air strategies. The services 
> offered not only entail access to technical know-how in all 
> matters concerning clean air, but also advisory services 
> about institutional processes as well as institutional and 
> political frameworks for a successful implementation and 
> realisation of a clean air policy.
> 
> Please feel invited to visit our relaunched website: Air 
> Quality Management 
> <http://www.gtz.de/transport/luftreinhaltung/english/> 
> <http://www.gtz.de/transport/luftreinhaltung/english/>) with 
> detailed information on our approach, services and projects. 
>  
> We are happy to receive your comments and suggestions on our 
> approach and our new website.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 
> Stefan Opitz					Dr. Jan Schwaab
> Senior Manager				Product Manager 
> " Clean Air in Cities " 
> Transport and Mobility
> 
>