Sustainable Biofuel Perspectives, Opportunities and Challenges after the Pandemic

Based on Covid-19 first analysis of impacts on the transport fuel sector, this presentation urged policymakers to act at two different timescales: 1) to provide support to meet short- and medium-term goals, such as assist fuel companies to overcome the collapse of demand and the economic shock, preserving direct and indirect jobs and business; and 2) provide support to meet medium- and long-term goals, such as to increase the ambition and promote higher amounts of domestic renewable and low carbon fuels, injecting economic resources on green domestic supply and conversion chains.

Rufus Edwards

Rufus Edwards is a professor of epidemiology and public health at the UC Irvine School of Medicine. Dr. Edwards was awarded the 2009 Joan M. Daisey Outstanding Young Scientist Award by the International Society of Exposure Science. Dr. Edwards' research focuses on human exposure to air pollution emissions and subsequent health effects.

Ryan Allen

Ryan Allen is an associate professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. He holds a Master’s degree in environmental engineering and a PhD in environmental health, both from the University of Washington in Seattle, USA. Following his doctoral training, Dr. Allen completed a post-doctoral fellowship in environmental epidemiology focused on the link between long-term air pollution exposure and the progression of subclinical cardiovascular disease. Dr.

Strengthening Co-Benefits of Health, Climate Change and Air Quality Improvement in Energy Investments in Asian Cities

Asia and the Pacific have the highest number of air pollution deaths in the world. The health effects were estimated to cost US$ 1.7 trillion in 2016, equivalent to 10% of the regions. Air pollution creates a massive economic burden for governments causing a loss of productive labor, thereby reducing output and incomes, and increased health care and welfare costs. The energy sector is a major source of pollution and therefore a target for efforts to improve air quality.

Adelaida Roman

Ms. Adelaida Roman is a Senior Programme Specialist and the Head of Air and Atmospheric Pollution Cluster at the Regional Resource Centre for Asia and the Pacific, Asian Institute of Technology. She coordinates the activities of the "Malé Declaration on Control and Prevention of Air Pollution and Its Likely Transboundary Effects for South Asia", an intergovernmental network dealing with transboundary air pollution in eight countries of South Asia, as well as the Project “Sustainable Low Emissions Transport”.