No money to achieve clean air goal: Experts | WPN World People News

Experts say increased funding for air quality monitoring and research can save children aged five and below from respiratory diseases due to pollution. Further, a national budget should be allocated to specifically cater for air quality research countrywide, acquisition of equipment, and expert training.

An evening of traffic congestion and air pollution: Increased funding for air quality monitoring and research can save children from respiratory diseases due to pollution.

SEI Africa in Nairobi is partnering with other organizations to support policy on air quality in Kenya to inform change.

The Nairobi county has been working with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and SEI to develop the 2019–2023 Air Quality Action Plan.

The county assembly of Nairobi was supposed to develop a policy framework from the action plan to ensure that the existing laws are adhered to, while new ones are implemented to curb air pollution within the city, industries, and residential estates.

Nairobi South Ward Member of the County Assembly Esther Chege has prepared a motion to the county executive and the Nairobi Metropolitan Services in an effort to push forward the action plan, and “to urgently develop an air quality policy and legislation to provide mechanisms for improving air quality in the city and present the same to the National Assembly for approval.”

Source: Stockholm Environment Institute