Air Quality Improvement in the BTH Region

Event: World Environment Day 2019: Panel Discussion on Beating Air Pollution, Making Asia’s Cities Livable

Air Quality Improvement in the BTH Region

05 June 2019

Author / Speaker:

Lin Lu, ADB - Email the author | Other materials by the author

In this presentation, Lin Lu outline the PRC's air quality challenges, and what needs to be done to address them. She also shared ADB's approach in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, identifying the issues encountered and the reform approach and presented specific ADB activities in the PRC that impacts air quality. Ms. Lu emphasized the need for long-term financing and technological support, as well as an approach that is cross-sectoral, pragmatic, and systematic to improve air quality in the BTH region.

Geographical Focus:

China, People's Republic of

Type of Content:

Learning Event

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