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Pre-conference Workshops

WHO Headquarters, Geneva 29 October 2018

Conference

The First WHO Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health: Improving Air Quality, Combatting Climate Change – Saving Lives will take place in Geneva, from 30 October to 1 November, 2018. The Conference will be organized at WHO Headquarters in Geneva, in collaboration with UN Environment, World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the Secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (CCAC), the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the World Bank and will bring ministers of health, energy and development, as well as urban leaders, civil society and scientists, together to talk about this global health threat that kills some 7 million people annually and also accelerates climate change.

Pre-conference workshops

The First WHO Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health will feature a series of pre-conference workshops on 29 October, which will take place at World Health Organization (WHO) HQ and World Meteorological Organization (WMO) HQ in Geneva.

Capacity is limited, and participants must register for their workshops of interest to reserve a seat. Please be aware of start and end times,

since we will have concurrent workshops. The latest updated information will be available on the pre-conference workshops webpage:

http://www.who.int/airpollution/events/conference/preconference/en/

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Workshops Schedule

Location Time Morning Workshops

Salle A 09h – 12h00 Clean Household Energy Solutions Toolkit: WHO’s Tools & Resources to Support the Implementation of WHO guidelines

for indoor air quality: household fuel combustion – Heather Adair-Rohani (WHO) and Jessica Lewis (WHO)

Salle C 8h45 – 13h The Urban Health Initiative (UHI), Assessing the health and economic impacts of sectorial action against air pollution – Thiago Hérick de Sá (WHO) Pierpaolo Mudu (WHO), Elaine Fletcher (WHO) and invited speakers

UNESCO 08h30 – 12h BenMAP The Environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program – Community Edition (BenMAP-CE) An open-source

tool to estimate air quality-related health benefits Ken Davidson (US EPA) and Pierpaolo Mudu (WHO) Room Change to UNESCO International Bureau of Education, 15 Route des Morillons

M.505 All Day

09h – 18h Breath clean air: everywhere, for everyone. Protecting workers from air pollution outdoors and indoors – Ivan Ivanov (WHO) and Nancy Leppink (ILO), and many invited speakers

Library All Day

09h – 18h Skills for addressing air pollution and health in all policies – communication, public health campaigns and negotiation – Elaine Fletcher (WHO), Nicole Valentine (WHO); and invited speakers

WMO (offsite)

8h30 – 12h30

Room C2

Low-cost monitoring (meeting room C2) – Lidia Morawska (QUT), Richard Peltier (UMass), Sophie Gumy (WHO)

Location Time Afternoon Workshops

Salle A 13h – 14h30 Energy, health and cities: Improving air quality, and reducing health risks in urban areas through improving energy access,

energy efficiency and renewables – Heather Adair-Rohani (WHO) and Jessica Lewis (WHO)

Salle A 14h45– 16h15

Universal Clean Energy Access for Women’s Health, Sustainable Development, and Wellbeing of Women and Children – Heather Adair-Rohani (WHO) and Jessica Lewis (WHO)

Salle A 16h30– 18h00

A deep dive workshop: The importance of sustainable energy to delivering quality health services - Heather Adair-Rohani (WHO) and Jem Porcaro (United Nations Foundation)

Salle C 14h – 17h From Satellites to Burdens – Gavin Shaddick (Exeter) Time Change

UNESCO 13h – 18h Introduction to the assessment of air pollution impacts on health using AirQ+ –Pierpaolo Mudu (WHO) and Michal

Krzyzanowski (WHO) Room Change to UNESCO International Bureau of Education, 15 Route des Morillons

Salle D 13h – 18h Evaluating the short-term health effects of desert and anthropogenic dust –Francesco Forastiere (WHO); Massimo

Stafoggia (DEP); Xavier Querol IDÆA (CSIC); Aurelio Tobias IDÆA (CSIC); Sara Basart (BSC-CNS); George Thurston (NYU) Room Change to Salle D

M.505 All Day

09h – 18h Breath clean air: everywhere, for everyone. Protecting workers from air pollution outdoors and indoors – Ivan Ivanov (WHO) and Nancy Leppink (ILO) and many invited speakers

Library All Day

09h – 18h Skills for addressing air pollution and health in all policies – communication, public health campaigns and negotiation – Elaine Fletcher (WHO), Nicole Valentine (WHO); and other speakers

WMO – offsite)

14h – 18h Room TBD

Canceled Tools for maximizing air quality, health and climate benefits in national mitigation planning, LEAP-IBC,– Johan Kuylenstierna (SEI) and many invited speakers from CCAC, GWU and others

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The Environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program – Community Edition (BenMAP-CE)

An open-source tool to estimate air quality-related health benefits

Coordinator: Pierpaolo Mudu, WHO [email protected]

Pre-Registration / Expression of Interest:

https://extranet.who.int/datacol/survey.asp?survey_id=3914

Location: UNESCO International Bureau of Education, 15 Route des Morillons.

Time: 08h30–12h

The environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program - Community Edition (BenMAP-CE) is a PC-based and open-source tool

developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to quantify the health impacts and economic value of air quality changes. BenMAP-

CE contains a user-modifiable database that comes pre-installed with a full suite of health impact functions, population projections, baseline health,

air quality and economic value estimates for the U.S. and China. Data from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study is also included to enable

analysts to assess the avoided deaths associated with user-specified air quality changes in each of the countries covered by the study. For example,

analysts could quantify the number of avoided premature deaths from a hypothetical 30% reduction in PM2.5 levels in Indonesia.

This half-day workshop will provide participants with an overview of three key topics: (1) understanding the basic principles of air pollution

benefits assessment so that they may characterize results and their uncertainty correctly; (2) operating the tool with the GBD data to perform

country-level screening analyses; (3) specifying their own data in the tool to perform more refined, country- or region-specific analyses.

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Harnessing the advancements in low-cost air quality

sensing technologies towards human exposure assessment

and health improvement

Coordinator: Sophie Gumy, WHO [email protected]



Location: WMO HQ

Time: 08h30–12h30

Over the past decade the emergence of new technologies in general, and for atmospheric sensing in particular, has been much faster than

could be comprehend, little alone utilized. Stationary and dynamic networks of low-cost sensors for air pollution monitoring are being established,

sensors are inbuilt in mobile phones and travel on drones. New sensor technologies are commercialized in large numbers, promising a revolutionary

shift in air pollution monitoring and assessment of human exposure to air pollution. With their cost significantly lower than of standard/reference

instruments, many avenues for applications have opened up. In particular, broader participation in air quality discussion and utilization of information

on air pollution by communities has become possible. Some studies have concluded that, when tested appropriately and used with a full

understanding of their capabilities and limitations, low-cost sensors can be an unprecedented aid in a wide range of air quality applications, including

the emerging field of citizen science. However, many questions have also been asked about the actual benefits of these technologies, ranging

from their performance (accuracy, precision, drift with time or robustness) to the utilization and interpretation of the vast amounts of data generated

by the sensors. The proposed workshop will explore the challenges in application of mini and nano sensors for air quality and personal exposure

monitoring. Further, it will discuss the likely future scenarios for how we will use these, and the new generations of sensors.



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The Urban Health Initiative – UHI

Assessing the health and economic impacts of sectoral action against air pollution

Coordinator: Thiago Hérick de Sá, WHO, Pierpaolo Mudu WHO, and Patricia Ferrini, WHO [email protected]



Location: WHO HQ

Time: 08h45–13h

The World Health Organization (WHO) Urban Health Initiative (UHI) aims for cities to have the data, tools, capacity and processes to include

health in the development equation. The initiative aims are to empower the health sector to realize its potential to support scaling up policy actions

to mitigate air pollutants at the urban level. The desired impacts are to reduce deaths and diseases associated with air pollutants, as well as to

realize climate and other health benefits (e.g. fewer injuries, better diets, safe physical activity), associated with policies and measures to tackle

air pollution. These analyses are conducted with WHO tools that are being adapted to the specific local contexts and inform model scenarios that

are used to identify viable options of sector policy change. WHO and partner organizations will use this evidence to inform stakeholders and

policymakers about health and other co benefits of selected interventions that mitigate air pollution.



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Clean Household Energy Solutions Toolkit

WHO’s Tools & Resources to Support the Implementation of WHO guidelines for indoor air quality: household fuel

combustion

Coordinator: Heather Adair-Rohani, WHO and Jessica Lewis, WHO [email protected]



Location: WHO HQ

Time: 09h00–12h00

Around 3 billion people lack access to clean household fuels and technologies, resulting in around 4 million deaths each year from exposure

to household air pollution. In response to this public health crisis, in 2014, WHO published the first-ever normative guidance on what energies used

in and around the home which can be considered ‘clean’ for health in the WHO Guidelines for indoor air quality: household fuel combustion. These

Guidelines have been instrumental in helping governments and other key stakeholders working in health, energy, environment, etc. to understand

health risks from household energy use and what are the currently available interventions for public health protection.

However further work is needed to really support governments and other stakeholders to identify, implement and monitor a “healthy” clean

household energy transition. Accordingly, WHO has been developing a Clean Household Energy Solutions Toolkit (CHEST) to provide countries

and implementing partners with the tools and resources needed to implement the WHO Guidelines and accelerate the transition to clean and

sustainable household energy solutions. This half-day workshop will provide participants with an overview of the Guidelines findings and the WHO

toolkit to support their implementation. It will also give participants an opportunity to hear others’ experiences with CHEST tools, a ‘hands-on’

experience using some of the available CHEST tools, as well as an overview of current research efforts on the clean household energy transition

whose findings can be translated and used to inform policy decisions, thereby contributing to Sustainable Development Goal 7 (ensuring access

to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all).

ID# 23602 - CHEST Workshop

Monday, October 29, 2018

9:00 am – 12pm | Europe Time (Paris, GMT+01:00) | 3 hrs

Meeting number (access code): 845 861 153


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Health in All Policies (HiAP)

Skills for addressing air pollution and health in an HiAP framework - communication, public health campaigns and

negotiations

Coordinator: Nicole Valentine, WHO and Elaine Fletcher, WHO

Pre-Registration / Expression of Interest: [email protected]

Location: WHO HQ

Time: 09h–17h

New intersectoral multilateral approaches and partnerships are needed to achieve health and wellbeing outcomes in the face of the air

pollution challenges. This workshop will focus on key skills for communicating and negotiating the problem and solutions that address air pollution.

Data, scenarios and case studies brought together from around the world by WHO, Vital Strategies and the World Bank, will allow participants to

explore, share and build confidence to take practical steps towards solving the air quality challenges issues and improving health of the population

in their contexts. The workshop will follow the WHO Health in All Policies Training Manual and, for communications and population perceptions,

the BreatheLife campaign, Vital strategies and the SEFIRA project from the World Meteorological Organization.


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Breathe clean air: everywhere, for everyone

Protecting workers from air pollution outdoors and indoors

Coordinator: Ivan Ivanov, WHO


Location: WHO HQ

Time: 09h30–17h30

The Universal Declaration on Human Rights proclaims that everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and

favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. All of the 3.5 billion workers in the world have the right to breathe clean air

at their workplaces, as well as at their homes, cities and villages.

Pollution of air at the workplace, being indoors in the work premises, or during work outdoors is harmful to health and can be prevented. For

this reason the 13th WHO General Programme of Work (2019–2023) states that “with respect to air pollution (i.e. outdoor, household and workplace

air pollution) and climate change mitigation, WHO will scale up its work with different sectors − including transport, energy, housing, waste, labour

and urban planning − at the national and local level to monitor air quality, develop strategies for transitioning to healthier technologies and fuels

and for ensuring that all populations breathe air that meets the standards of WHO’s air quality guidelines, and that scientific evidence will be

translated into effective policies.”

The round table will be held on 29 October 2018 in WHO headquarters, prior to the Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health. It will

provide opportunities for conference participants who have a stake in protection of workers’ health to have focused discussion to identify the major

challenges for protecting workers from air pollution and build momentum for commitments for action at workplace, national and international levels

to increase the protection of workers to air pollution.


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Energy, health and cities

Improving air quality and reducing health risks in urban areas through improving energy access, energy efficiency and

renewables

Coordinator: Heather Adair-Rohani, WHO [email protected]



Location: WHO HQ

Time: 13h00–14h30

Cities are growing at a rapid rate. Sixty percent of people are expected to live in cities by 2030. Mayors and city governments are uniquely

positioned to take swift and concerted action to address air pollution. This panel discussion will identify energy interventions for key air pollution

sources in cities and discuss how the health and energy communities at the city-level can work together to clean the air and protect public health.

The session will include a brief overview of health, air pollution and energy linkages in cities, some of the WHO resources available for choosing

‘health-wise’ energy interventions for transport, waste, and energy access, as well as include lessons from experiences on the ground working in

cities.

ID# 23603 - Energy, health and cities


1:00-2:30 pm | Europe Time (Paris, GMT+01:00) | 1 hr 30 mins


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Evaluating the short-term health effects

of desert and anthropogenic dust




Location: WHO HQ

Time: 13h–18h

Desert dust and sand storms might have a large impact on air quality, in particular PM10 and PM2.5, not only in areas close to the sources

or regions but over areas even a few thousands of kilometres away. Several studies have assessed the direct effects of desert dust on mortality,

hospital admissions and other health outcomes. The main difficulty of these studies has been separating the effect of desert dust from that of other

anthropogenic pollutants and meteorological variables. The workshop will provide an updated knowledge on both the environmental and the

epidemiological aspects and will allow the design and the analysis of local time-series studies.



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From satellites to burdens




Location: WHO HQ

Time: 13h–18h

In May 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) released new estimates of global air quality showing that air pollution levels are

dangerously high in many parts of the world. The new estimates reveal an alarming toll of 7 million deaths every year can be associated with

exposure to outdoor and household air pollution, and that 90% of people worldwide breathe polluted air.

In this workshop, we will explore the process in which ground monitoring of PM2.5 fine particulate air pollution is supplemented with

information from remote sensing satellites and other sources to produce high-resolution estimates of concentrations for every country. We will then

show how these estimates form the basis of the calculations of country-level, regional and global, burden of disease.



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Introduction to the assessment of air pollution impacts

on health using AirQ+

Coordinator: Pierpaolo Mudu, WHO [email protected]



Location: UNESCO International Bureau of Education, 15 Route des Morillons.

Time: 13h–18h

The general aim of this workshop is to introduce participants to the general principles of health impact assessment (HIA) and its use to

evaluate health effects of population exposure to air pollution. It will support the understanding of modelling air pollution health effects, and the use

of tools to assess impacts of air pollution and of clean air policies, specifically AirQ+.

The workshop is recommended to public health or environmental and public health specialists with minimum knowledge of atmospheric

modelling, statistical methods, epidemiology or GIS. Participants are invited to bring their laptops and possibly have installed AirQ+ software in

their computer.



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Universal Clean Energy Access for Women’s Health,

Sustainable Development and Wellbeing of Women and Children




Location: WHO HQ

Time: 14h45–16h15

There is a global consensus and ever-growing body of evidence that expanding access to clean household energy for cooking, heating and

lighting is key to achieving a range of global priorities, such as improving health, gender equality, equitable economic development and

environmental protection.

Universal access to clean and modern cooking (Sustainable Development Goal 7) is integral to reducing poverty and advancing human

dignity. The co-benefits of clean cooking can help achieve 10 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Moreover, clean cooking is particularly

relevant to fulfilling the SDG commitment to “leave no one behind”, since the harmful consequence of traditional, inefficient cooking

disproportionately affect the world’s most vulnerable citizens – women, girls, and infants, as well as those living in extreme poverty and displaced

populations

Air pollution exposure from inefficient cooking with biomass fuels can cause non-communicable cardiovascular and respiratory diseases in

adults and pneumonia in children. In addition to these illnesses, polluting and unsafe fuels pose substantial risks for burns and injuries. Fuel

collection over long distances with heavy loads can result in personal safety risks and injury as well. The process of traditional cooking places

additional burdens on women and girls, who typically spend hours each day caring for their families and performing routine, unpaid household

chores such as cooking, cleaning, collecting water and firewood.

This problem is tragically widespread – about half of the world’s people cook their meals and heat and light their homes using dangerously

polluting fuels and devices with tragic consequences. Breathing in smoke from inefficient cooking fires is estimated to cause four million deaths

each year – most of which are women and children. These deaths are preventable by moving to clean fuels and technologies for household energy.

Universal clean energy access would also prevent the loss of countless hours spent gathering wood, and the significant contribution made to

atmospheric warming from household combustion sources.

ID# 23604 - Universal Clean Energy Access for Women's Health


2:45 pm-4:15 pm | Europe Time (Paris, GMT+01:00) | 1 hr 30 mins


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A deep dive workshop: The importance of sustainable energy to delivering quality health services


and Jem Porcaro, United Nations Foundation



Location: WHO HQ

Time: 16h30–18h00

Our energy choices have important impacts on our health. They influence the amount of harmful air pollution people breathe and help

determine the risks we face from climate change. But, for the 1 billion people who lack access to any form of modern energy, they also affect the

quality of health care people depend on.

Energy is critical for the delivery of health services, particularly for vulnerable populations such as women and children. When health facilities

have sufficient and reliable power, women can more safely give birth at night and during emergencies, medical equipment can be powered and

better sterilized and clinics can preserve life-saving vaccines for newborns and children.

Yet, despite electricity’s importance to delivering health services, it is estimated that tens of thousands of health centers across low- and

middle-income countries are not connected to an electric grid. As a result, many health facilities depend on expensive, polluting and inadequate

alternatives such as diesel generators or kerosene lamps. A similar number of hospitals suffer from frequent and debilitating blackouts. This helps

explains why infrastructure – including electricity – is the main driver behind the additional $274 billion in spending needed per year by 2030 to

make progress towards SDG 3 (healthy lives and wellbeing). And yet closing this access gap by 2030 won’t be possible through business-as-usual

approaches (e.g. grid extension).

Heightened political attention and commitment to universal health coverage, coupled with recent advances in clean energy and the impetus

for climate action, present a timely opportunity to improve access to quality health care while greening health facilities and making them more

climate-resilient. If, for example, a portion of the attention/resources being marshalled to accelerate the delivery of decentralized, renewable energy

solutions and energy efficiency measures could be directed towards healthcare infrastructure, the benefit to health systems, and the communities

they serve, would be significant.

However, increasing access to reliable and modern energy in health facilities doesn’t come without challenges. Chief among them is the

lack of available data/information about the intersection between energy and health care. Reliable data on energy access in health facilities, for

example is currently sparse. This lack of data results in low levels of awareness of and priority given to energy and health care. In collaboration

with the United Nations Foundation, this workshop will raise awareness among policy makers about the need and opportunity to provide better

health services and reduce air pollution by investing in sustainable energy infrastructure for health facilities in developing countries.


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ID# 23609 - UNF Workshop - A deep dive workshop: The importance of sustainable energy to delivering quality health services


4:30-6 pm | Europe Time (Paris, GMT+01:00) | 1 hr 30 mins


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Coordination Meeting on the Health, Environment and Climate Change Coalition

Time: 13h30–17h

Date: Monday, 29 October 2018, back-to-back with the First Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health.

Venue: WHO Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland.

Participation by invitation only.

Participants: Member States, UN agencies and key actors active on health, environment and climate change.

Contact points: At World Health Organization (WHO), Ms. Marina Maiero ([email protected])

At the United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment), Ms. Fanny Demassieux ([email protected]) and Ms. Ran Xie ([email protected])

At World Meteorological Organization (WMO), Ms. Joy Shumake-Guillemot ([email protected])

An “Interministerial Meeting on Health, Environment and Climate Change”, was convened on 15th November 2016 by the Ministry of Environment, and the Ministry of Health, of Morocco, in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO), and UN Environment. Gathering at the UNFCCC COP22 climate conference in Marrakech, over 20 Ministers and high-level officials from both the health and environment sectors signed a Declaration for accelerated action on Health, Environment and Climate Change.

In response to this mandate, at the annual World Health Assembly in May 2018, the heads of WHO, UN Environment and WMO launched the Health, Environment and Climate Change Coalition.

The Coalition has begun with a joint focus on Air Quality, together with the Climate and Clean Air Coalition, outlining five areas of joint work1.

Based on these initial achievements to address air pollution, the Coalition will also be one of the key partners contributing to the delivery of the

UNEA3 Implementation Plan to address pollution.2

The goal of the Coalition is to coordinate action and stimulate and strengthen collaboration to jointly address the linkages among health,

environment and climate change. For the moment, the Coalition gathers WHO, UN Environment, WMO and UNFCCC. The Coalition welcomes the participation of other UN

agencies, as well as main actors working on health, environment and/or climate change. However, further expansion of the Coalition and additional

1 Delivering on Air Quality, Climate Change and Health, http://www.who.int/phe/delivering-air-quality.pdf?ua=1 2 Member States adopted a Ministerial Declaration as a key outcome of the 3rd UN Environment Assembly (UNEA3) in December 2017 under the overarching topic “Towards a Pollution-Free Planet”, which calls for the development of an implementation plan to address pollution. The Implementation Plan will be submitted to Member States for consideration by the 4th United Nations Environment Assembly.


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activities beyond coordination is subject to potential additional resources and supports that the Coalition would be able to receive for such work,

therefore requiring further dialogue with Member States and possible partners on resource requirements.

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CANCELED - Tools for maximizing air quality, health and climate benefits in national mitigation planning,

LEAP-IBC

Enhancing the capacity of national and urban-scale policy-makers to evaluate the benefits of taking action

Coordinator: Johan Kuylenstierna, Stockholm Environment Institute/CCAC


Location: WMO HQ

Time: 14h–18h

Planners and practitioners in many countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America often lack the ability to undertake quantitative assessments

of air pollutants, short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) and greenhouse gases (GHGs), and the impacts that they are likely to have on human

health, agriculture and climate change. At the Stockholm Environment Institute, we have been collaborating with the U.S. Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA) and others on the development of a tool that can enable users in these countries estimate the impacts of different emissions

scenarios on premature mortality, crop yields and global temperature change.

This new tool is known as IBC: the Integrated Benefits Calculator. It is an application linked to SEI’s well-established Long-range Energy

Alternatives Planning system (LEAP) which has already been widely used by energy and climate planners in developing countries for the past two

decades, including by more than 40 countries that used LEAP to develop their INDC communications to the UNFCCC's 2015 Paris Climate

Conference. A key aspect of LEAP's design philosophy is that analyses will be much more influential if the policy-makers in countries have

undertaken the analyses themselves. Therefore, LEAP-IBC is designed to be open, transparent and relatively straightforward to use. The resulting

enhanced tool, LEAP-IBC is currently being used to support integrated national planning of air pollution, SLCPs and climate change in 30 countries

engaged in the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC), which has also supported the development of the IBC.

In this session, we will explain how LEAP-IBC allows users to i. estimate emissions of air pollutants, short-lived climate pollutants and GHGS,

ii. develop baseline and mitigation scenarios at the national scale, iii. estimate the population-weighted concentrations of PM2.5 in a country, iii.

estimate the concentrations of ground-level ozone using metrics relevant for human health and crop yields, iv. Estimate impacts of PM2.5 and

ozone on premature mortality, v. estimate crop-yield reductions for four staple crops and vi. estimate the impact of emission scenarios on global

temperature change.

We will also describe how the tool has been applied to date around the world, and also discuss the use of LEAP-IBC to implement a new

conceptual framework being developed by the CCAC, which promotes an integrated approach to addressing air pollution and climate change to

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increase policy coherence, increase ambition to reduce emissions and maximize the benefits to human health, climate change and agricultural

production.

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