Clean Air 2025 (Sri Lanka)
The overall vision of Clean Air 2025 is to reduce urban, industrial and indoor air pollution and maintain air quality at desirable levels minimizing emission of harmful air pollutants. This is to be achieved through an effective stakeholder participatory mechanism and ensuring source identification, quantification and monitoring of harmful air pollutants along with an appropriate regulatory framework. Further, it recognizes the need for research and development and capacity building in air quality management (AQM) assisted by sub-regional, regional and global linkages. Also important is raising public awareness on air pollution, its health and other impacts and actions taken to address related issues.
The objectives of Clean Air 2025 include:
- To develop and establish a national multi-stakeholder platform for formulation and coordination of all air quality improvement and management programs
- To ensure source identification, quantification, monitoring and reduction of harmful air pollutants through implementation of identified programmes in association with all stakeholders
- To formulate, strengthen and implement an appropriate regulatory framework for ensuring effective air quality management
- To undertake research and development and capacity building programs for AQM
- To establish linkages with sub-regional, regional and global AQM initiatives
- To create public awareness on air pollution, its health and other impacts and actions taken to address related issues
- To ensure adequate financial resources through formal and innovative financing mechanisms for air quality management