The potential contribution of renewable energy in air pollution abatement in China and India

The impact of air pollutant and methane emission controls on tropospheric ozone and radiative forcing: CTM calculations for the period 1990-2030

“…For Russia, the national energy strategy developed by the Russian Ministry of Industry and Energy (MTE, 2003), been introduced into RAINS and extended until 2030 by Popov (2003). Projections for Asia have been extracted from the recent RAINSAsia database (Boudri et al, 2002;Cofala et al, 2004), including information on countries, regions and mega-cities. Especially in India large increases in transport and energy demand are predicted.…”

“…However, a wealth of relevant information on new legislation became recently available, especially on legislation for the transport sector in Asia and Latin America (Bertelsen and Walsh, 2000;Weaver and Walsh, 1996), see also http://www.cleanairnet.org/cai/1403/ channel.html. Country-specific information for South-east Asia was collected in the context of the RAINS-Asia II project (Boudri et al, 2002;RAINS-Asia, 2001) and updated with recent information on mobile sources from the clean Air initiative from the World Bank. For other countries and world regions, information for stationary sources was taken from the emission standards handbook (McConville, 1997).…”

Changes in Nitrogen Dioxide and Ozone over Southeast and East Asia between Year 2000 and 2030 with Fixed Meteorology

“…The first scenario (hereafter referred to as 'CLE' for Current LEgislation) assumes country-, sector-and technology-specific emission control measures that are imposed by present (2002) legislation. Country-specific information for Southeast and East Asia was collected during the RAINS-Asia II project (IIASA 2001;Boudri et al 2002) and updated with recent information on mobile sources from the Clean Air Initiative of the World Bank.…”

Deploying Renewables in Southeast Asia

“…With the rapid economic growth, the use of fossil fuels, and the consequent emission of air pollutants, has been increasing in Asia and may do so in the coming decades. As a result, sulphur dioxide (SO 2 ) emissions may increase fast in the future, and critical loads for acidifying deposition may be exceeded for a range of ecosystems in large parts of Asia (Boudri, A. et al, 2002). Large cities such as Jakarta, Bangkok, Manila, Kuala Lumpur and Ho Chi Minh City often suffer from local air pollution resulting from increased vehicle use, rapid rates of industrialisation and urbanisation, the heavy reliance on coal and the locations of industries close to residential areas.…”