Awareness Raising
We support governments and other stakeholders to enhance and further develop air pollution information materials and promote exchange of information and experience.
We support governments and other stakeholders to enhance and further develop air pollution information materials and promote exchange of information and experience.
The AIT RRC.AP and SACEP successfully organized the 4th Webinar in the Malé Declaration Webinar Series on “Air Quality Management – Science and Investment for Sustainable Development in Malé Declaration Member Countries.” The webinar was held under the topic “What and Why Super Pollutants: Long-term Monitoring in South Asia.” A total of 42 participants attended the webinar.
The AIT RRC.AP participated in the Better Air Quality (BAQ) Conference 2026 held from 11-13 March 2026 at the United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC) in Bangkok, Thailand. Dr. Vanisa Surapipith, Head of the Air Pollution Cluster at AIT RRC.AP, was a speaker at the session titled “Clean Air Across Borders: Advancing Regional Action in the Indo-Gangetic Plains and Himalayan Foothills”.
Dr. Vanisa Surapipith, Head of the Air Pollution Cluster at the Regional Resource Centre for Asia and the Pacific (RRC.AP), Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), participated in the panel discussion on “Aligning Regional and Multistakeholder Actions with National Needs”, held under the session “Connecting National Needs with Regional Action for Clean Air in Asia and the Pacific”. The session was organized by UN ESCAP and UNEP on 25 November 2025, as part of Clean Air Week 2025 held from 24-28 November 2025, in Bangkok, Thailand.
The AIT-RRC.AP was a key contributor to the 2025 Incheon International Environmental Technology Confex and chaired a pivotal session on Southeast Asia Air Quality Management Technology Demand Discovery Network.
AIT RRC.AP played an active role in the "Understanding Air Pollution and its Sources, Weather, Climate, and Topography in Malaysia: EANET National Stakeholder Awareness Workshop in Malaysia." This workshop was a collaborative effort between the Secretariat for the Acid Deposition Monitoring Network in East Asia (EANET) and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), with the support of the Malaysian Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability. Held at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Kuala Lumpur, on November 26, 2024, the workshop adhered to the EANET Work Programme and Budget 2024, as well as the EANET Rules of Procedure.
AIT RRC.AP contributed as a panelist in the plenary session on the “Regional Cooperation to Air Quality" and shared Malé Declaration's brief history, achievements, progress, and future plan which was well received by the participants during the UNEP-Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC)'s clean air week at the UNCC, Bangkok, from 29 May 2023 to 1 June 2023. The CCAC brings together 79 state partners representing 50% of global short-live climate pollutants (SLCP) emissions alongside intergovernmental organisations, businesses, scientific institutions, and civil-society organisations committed to protecting the climate and improving air quality through actions to reduce SLCPs.
RRC.AP supported the EANET Secretariat in organising an awareness workshop on the “State of Acid Deposition in East Asia – From Data to Policy” on 20 June 2022 on an Online Platform. The objectives of the workshop were to increase public understanding on acid deposition issues, to share EANET achievements in the last 20 years, and to explore further generate collaboration ideas for future EANET Projects based on the PRSAD4 (4th Periodic Report on the State of Acid Deposition in East Asia) findings and recommendations. Altogether 79 participants, including 38 women, from 17 countries including 13 EANET participating countries participated in the workshop.
The EANET Awareness Workshop in 2021 was organized virtually on 6 September 2021, in partnership with the Republic of Korea. The event gathered over 200 participants from 16 countries and focused its discussion on international cooperation on acid deposition and air pollution. The workshop was aimed at increasing public understanding of regional acid deposition issues while reflecting on the work achieved by the EANET in the last 20 years.
The event which successfully gathered around 50 participants from the eight-member countries of the Malé Declaration, namely, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, and some other countries, provided an avenue for sharing and learning of experiences, challenges, and opportunities in air quality management during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The event was also aimed to introduce the HIMEK initiative to global policy makers. AIT and IUCN jointly establishing an alliance "the HIMEK" which will be a regional cooperation framework between the Himalayan countries and the countries of the Mekong Region to promote efforts on emission reduction of Black Carbon particles and forest landscape restoration.
RRC.AP spearheaded the celebration of World Environment Day with the theme of "#Beat Air Pollution" in Asian Institute of Technology on 5 June 2019. Activities started in the morning where participants within AIT planted trees.
The Environment awareness series kicked off with the "Air Pollution Awareness Workshop on Impacts of PM2.5" on 3 April 2019 held in AIT Bangkok.
RRC.AP and the UN Environment, Air Quality and Mobility Unit, Nairobi, Kenya organized two webinars on Guidance to Fuel Importing Countries for Reducing On-Road Fuel Sulfur Levels, Improving Vehicle Emission Standards that had taken place on 20 and 22 November 2018.
RRC.AP's Air and Atmospheric Pollution Cluster had joined in various events during the 2018 Clean Air Week (19-23 March 2018), organized by the UN Environment at the United Nations Conference Center (UNCC) in Bangkok, Thailand.