Jakarta’s Air Rated ‘Good’ by Environment Group
Dofa Fasila | November 04, 2010
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404979Here's a good idea (tongue firmly in cheek)!!
Let's put more bins around the city and then put some adverts on TV with lots of slogans for Keep Indonesia Tidy instead of those stupid tobacco adverts or skin whitening rubbish!
CAI-Asia also provided several recommendations to improve the Jakarta’s air quality, including monitoring the content of dust in the air...
...now that's actually a waste of money, as monitoring doesn't help to improve anything, especially because nobody seems to care about the results anyway. Better get rid of all these old buses, spend money on education in regards of disposal of garbage!
I like that one sentence though by Fauzi - “Assessing the air cleanliness in a city is one of the ways to evaluate the condition of air in that city" - well a true specialist indeed...
And which city policies and implementations is he anyway talking about which received "Good" scores...give me just one, PLEASE!
How much did ya bung 'em Fauzi?
This is absolute BS. Remind me never to read anything from The Philippine-based Clear Air Initiative. I reckon their monitoring equipment must have been damaged by the severely bad air pollution here which then gave them wonky readings.
What absolute rubbish. Jakarta is appallingly polluted, the air is filthy, the rivers are sewers. Almost nothing is being done by Jakarta's administration to change this. No amount of survey results from groups, of which he, as Jakarta, is a stakeholder, will change that.
Fauzi Bowo, the Worlds worst city Governor is just dredging up figures to try and make it look like he is actually doing his job, which he is not.
Jakarta. Despite the heavy air and water pollution affecting the Indonesian capital, an international environment group has given Jakarta’s air a favorable score that places it among cities with good environmental conditions.
The Philippine-based Clear Air Initiative Asia Center gave Jakarta a score of 61.9 out of 100, including it in the “good” city category, Governor Fauzi Bowo said on Thursday.
He said the group, which promotes and demonstrates innovative ways to improve the air quality of Asian cities, based their scoring on three categories: air pollution and health, clean air management capacity and policies on clean air and their successful implementation.
The survey was completed this year, he added.
“Assessing the air cleanliness in a city is one of the ways to evaluate the condition of air in that city,” Fauzi said.
The air pollution and health ratings are drawn from the annual average pollution concentration and are compared to the standard safety levels issued by the World Health Organization.
The city’s clean air management capacity is gauged by its ability to identify the sources of pollution and their impact on air and greenhouse gas emissions.
The city’s policies and implementation are judged in relation to how effective they are in addressing the sources of pollution.
Fauzi said that while the first category received a moderate score, the two others were in the “good” category.
CAI-Asia also provided several recommendations to improve the Jakarta’s air quality, including monitoring the content of dust in the air, adding to the number of existing monitoring stations and assuring the quality of the monitoring.
It also recommended the implementation of a clean air act to review existing air pollution control regulations, map out the quality of fuel and emission standards for vehicles and develop technology-based solutions for air pollution.
It also urged tax incentives to promote energy efficiency in industries.
“The city administration will buy a new air monitoring station in 2011,” Fauzi said.
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