[sustran] Air Quality Management - GTZ Approach

[Wagner Armin GTZ 4413]

> "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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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. 
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> 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
>