Expected
Accomplishments
(a) (i)
Establishment of a national concept for implementing selected
Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution protocols;
(ii) national implementation plan ensuring that a selected
country can meet its obligations under selected protocols that
it accedes to; and (iii) an action plan for the implementing of
the national concept and implementation plan
(b) Raised awareness in
Central Asia on air quality management and international
cooperation on transboundary transport of air pollution laying
the basis for other countries to accede to the convention and/or
its protocols
(c) Establishment of a
plan for cooperation on air pollution monitoring and evaluation
between Central Asia, on the one hand, and Europe and Asia, on
the other; and upgrading and testing one station of air
pollution monitoring in Central Asia as a link between the
Cooperative Programme for Monitoring and Evaluation of the
Long-range Transmission of Air Pollutants in Europe (EMEP) and
the Asian air-monitoring network
(d) Establishment of a
subregional network comprising experts on clean coal
technologies and investment project finance from the public and
private sectors of interested participating countries in Central
Asia; and an Internet/Intranet web site for use by all
participants of the subregional network for value-added
information exchanges and dissemination of project outputs
(e) Review of energy
policy and energy pricing reforms relevant to the promotion
of appropriate clean coal technologies with national and municipal
authorities, private sector partners and international experts;
and an assessment of specific policy options and pricing reforms
required to support selected case study investment projects
(f) Enhanced capacity to
identify and develop investment projects for the introduction of
low-cost, fast payback clean coal technologies for the heat and
power generation sector in Central Asian countries; and a
greater awareness of the modalities of project finance,
guarantee mechanisms and sources of investment available for
reducing air pollution emissions through the introduction of
energy efficiency measures and common best practice clean coal
technologies
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