[sustran] Re: [KyotoWorldCities] Bangkok Dispatch: Seeking Clean Asian Air (Plus the other side of Dr. Schipper)

Lee Schipper schipper at wri.org
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And if you do like the music, try "schipper BAQ" on the main you tube
site for lots more!
Attached is yours truly with Dexter Gordon, Aarhus, Denmark, Sept 1970. 
 
Where did I go wrong?

Lee 
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Subject: [KyotoWorldCities] Bangkok Dispatch: Seeking Clean Asian Air
(Plus the other side of Dr. Schipper)




And don't forget to spend some quality time with Dr. Schipper at 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArYUn3NAntE
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArYUn3NAntE>  




Bangkok Dispatch: Seeking Clean Asian Air

By Andrew C. Revkin
<http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/author/andrew-c-revkin/> 

 

Asian cities, including Hanoi pictured here, are beset by traffic and
smog. (Credit: Lee Schipper)

Lee Schipper, a specialist on cities, transportation and pollution
diving time between Stanford and Berkeley, is a frequent presence on Dot
Earth and a source for me when pondering how the world heads toward nine
billion mainly-urban humans with the fewest traffic jams and smog
alerts. He sent the following note from a conference in Bangkok on
cleaning the air in Asian cities. You may have seen the news on Asia's
growing brown clouds
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/world/14cloud.html>  this week.

Postcard from Better Air Quality '08 <http://www.baq2008.org/> :

Much has been made of rising aspirations of the middle class in
developing countries, with the implication that this must mean literally
hundreds of millions of cars - and hundreds of millions of tonnes of oil
use and resulting CO2 emissions. Unfortunately these aspirations
continue to collide with reality in the congested and polluted cities
all over Asia, compounded by the huge brown clouds of pollution hovering
over many parts of Asia recently noted in The Times. The foul air, with
people stuck in traffic, is costing thousands of unnecessary deaths
every year. This is not a new problem, as I have noted elsewhere
<http://howyoucansavetheworld.com/2008/10/not-everyone-can-have-a-car-if
.php> .

This week, leaders from all the major countries and cities have been
gathering at a semi-annual event, Better Air Quality '08
<http://www.baq2008.org> , organized by the Clean Air Initiative for
Asian Cities, a group recently spun off from the Asian Development Bank.

There are four main goals: 

* Liveable, walkable, safe cities as the examples of Singapore and Seoul
in Asia show.
* Better technologies, not necessarily as expensive as many think, since
Asians have not yet dug holes as Americans have with a very
car-intensive world.
* Modest lifestyles, not the kinds Americans are used to but ones we're
beginning to adjust to as home ownership, water, food, energy and
everything else is suddenly more expensive or risky than we thought.
* Good governance, with the usual panoply of taxes, regulations to make
the first three outcomes happen. This was brought out by Enrique
Penalosa, former mayor of Bogota, who transformed that city and its bus
system into the envy of the world. 

Many informal, and in some cases, closed-door sessions here let public
and private stakeholders work on real solutions. BAQ 08 is upbeat on
local air pollution. In Hanoi, for example, a city with more motorcycles
per capita than New York has cars per capita, measures are being taken 
to clean up the resulting pollution
<http://embarq.wri.org/en/Article.145.aspx> . China has developed fuel
economy standards on new cars, and high-level representatives from other
Asian governments attended a special workshop to discuss how their
countries should approach this issue. Bus rapid transit around the world
was featured as well.

But some of the messages from such conferences are depressing:
Greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, and the success stories are
still the exception.

Lee Schipper, Global Metropolitan Studies, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley
<http://metrostudies.berkeley.edu/> , and Precourt Institute for Energy
Efficiency <http://piee.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/htm/index.php?ref=home> ,
Stanford University 

Have you traveled or lived in Asia? If so, what do you see as signs of
progress, or big trouble? Dr. Schipper did point out to me that at least
one other element of the meeting was upbeat -- the music, provided at
the opening reception by none other than Lee Schipper and the
Mitigators. Let's go to the videotape: 

*         http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArYUn3NAntE
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArYUn3NAntE>  

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