Topic Overview
Financing and economic instruments
Air pollution is a global environmental and public health problem particularly in developing countries. The fast expansion of urban, transport and industrial activities spurred by rapid population growth has produced vast amounts of polluting emissions along with their consequent impacts. Air quality management is often weak due to lack of appropriate planning, inadequate governance, poor technology, weak enforcement of existing legislation and the absence of economic and fiscal incentives to promote environmentally sound development. ...read more