SUSTAINABLE WORLD INC
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Mission Statement
Sustainable World Inc., a New York-based non-profit [501] [c] [3] was incorporated in December 2016 and granted tax-exempt status on May 23, 2017. SW works with high-level policy-makers to implement the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2030 and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change agreed by governments in 2015. Our first project, AirQualityAsia focuses on the clean air goals, specifically SDGs 3.9, 11.6, and 12.4. in Asia, the region most affected by air pollution due to rapid economic growth powered by thermal and fossil fuels. Long-term Outcome Significantly contribute to improving Asia’s Ambient Air-Quality; Asian governments expand their commitment to programs for improved air-quality. Short-term Campaign Objectives SW-AQA’s objective is to help key Asian countries bridge identified gaps in their current air-quality frameworks in line with the United Nations’ clean air. Sustainable Development Goals 2030. By the end of the pilot phase ending in 2019 we achieved our short-term objectives: a) The three target countries have expanded programs for accurate and consistent measurement of air quality including PM 2.5. b) Air quality data is made available on public websites and updated several times daily so that citizens have access. c) Governments take concrete steps in regulations/emissions standards, rebalancing energy mix towards renewable energy Campaign Strategy SW-AQA creates stronger air-quality regulatory frameworks across sectors related to the air-quality targets/indicators agreed upon in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030, specifically SDGs 3.9, 11.6 and 12.4 by convening and empowering a network of national, regional and international stakeholders including federal and state parliamentarians, government officials, renewable energy experts, UN agencies, development banks and civil society. Why Asia? Asia's rapidly growing economies produce the majority of the world's global CO2 emissions. It is also the region with an ongoing air pollution crisis. World Bank President Jim Kim is on record as saying "if Asia region implements the coal-based plans right now... then we blow the carbon budget, we are finished." The energy transition of Asia, in this critical window of the next few years is essential for global health as air pollution destroys human health, creates welfare costs to national GDP, reduces agricultural output, crosses boundaries, oceans and circumvents the globe.
About This Cause
Sustainable World Inc., a New York-based non-profit [501] [c] [3] work with high-level policy-makers to implement the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 2030 and the Paris Agreement agreed by governments in 2015. Our first project, AirQualityAsia focuses on the clean air goals in Asia, the region most affected by air pollution due to rapid economic growth powered by thermal and fossil fuels. Why Asia? Asia's rapidly growing economies produce the majority of the world's global CO2 emissions. It is also the region with an ongoing air pollution crisis. The energy transition of Asia, in this critical window of the next few years is essential for global health as air pollution destroys human health, creates welfare costs to national GDP, reduces agricultural output, crosses boundaries, oceans and circumvents the globe. Latest research in the Lancet also shows that air pollution increases mortality due to COVID-19 by 15%. Air-Quality links the SDGs 2030 and the Paris Agreement Since 2014, governments working through the United Nations negotiated two major global agreements on Climate Change and Sustainability. The Sustainable Development Goals 2030, agreed upon on September 25, 2015, set specific environmental targets including ambient air-quality to be achieved by 2030. The Paris Agreement, which came into force on November 4, 2016, sets a global target for CO2 emissions with global temperature targets of less than 2 degrees above 19th century level. All countries have agreed to the SDGs and 143 countries have ratified the Paris Agreement. Most Asian parliaments including the three pilot countries have also ratified, making it legally binding on them. Air-Quality targets are the implementing tools for the Paris Agreement. The measures necessary to improve air-quality are the same measures necessary to reduce carbon emissions. For citizens and policy-makers alike, Air-Quality is an easy to understand, measurable tool to alleviate air pollution and improve public health. Based on World Bank reports from 2013, air pollution creates $5.11 trillion of welfare costs to the global economy. SW-AQA is the only international organization bringing together the SDGs 2030 focused on Air-Quality with the policy challenges on that governments face to implement these goals and targets in the region producing the majority of carbon emissions. Legislators as agents of change: Legislators are powerful public advocates for clean air—nationally and internationally. Nationally they are high-profile individuals with frequent media presence. Internationally, they attend UN, Development Bank, and other high-level international conventions and meetings as official participants, who can put issues on the record and propose language in negotiations. As legislators, they are responsible for national implementation of legislation with oversight of air-quality parameters. As the decision-makers on national budgets and development assistance they will decide how and to what extent the air-quality SDGs are financed and hence implementable. SW-AQA works with legislators in four major parliamentary issue committees: climate change/environment, health, finance, and energy. SW-AQA empowers legislators to act by closing existing information, awareness and action gaps on Air-Quality. Information Gap: • Most countries in Asia do not have ground-level air-quality monitoring systems in place, that measure PM 2.5, in all their major cities. • Asian policy-makers also do not have annual national disease and mortality statistics segregating respiratory and cardiac disease linked to air-pollution. • No country-by-country annually updated studies on the impact on agriculture of high levels of air-pollution are available either. Awareness gap: • Air pollution is costing the world about $5.11 trillion in welfare costs. SW-AQA has started working with the World Bank group presenting annual estimates for its pilot countries. • Legislators need to recognize that heavy government subsidies are still available for fossil fuel consumption, globally totaling according to a recent IMF study projects that these subsidies are now over $5 trillion. Public subsidies to fossil fuel consumption continue to enable expanding air pollution. Action Gap: • In most parliaments the Environment, Health, Energy and Finance Committees operate in silos; some governments have set up National Task Forces on Climate Change but not on air-quality and the SDGs. • National legislators and city elected officials have no regional or international avenue to interact and work together on urban environmental issues including air-quality. SW-AQA C40 and GUAPO to combine efforts at city and federal levels. • Cross party alliances and agreements are necessary to have concerted action for National Air-Quality Plans; SW-AQA is non-partisan. • Private Sector: Engaging the private sector to present Renewable Energy solutions is necessary for implementation of SDGs. Methodology: SW-AQA works to empower legislators by closing existing information, awareness and action gaps on Air-Quality through convening, connecting and communicating with key legislators and regional/international experts from UN agencies, development banks and civil society. A. SW-AQA Vision: Secure #AsiansRighttoBreatheFree. B. SW-AQA Mission: Improvement in air quality in Asia through national environment and energy policy. C. SW-AQA Goal: Key Asian countries meet the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals related to Air Quality – namely SDGs 3.9, 11.6, and 12.4. D. SW-AQA Objective: Promote legislative action and environment/energy policy improvements on carbon emissions in three pilot countries – India, Indonesia, and Pakistan. Since 2018 SW-AQA has also initiated work with the Philippines. E. SW-AQA Means: Address the key gaps in Information, Awareness and Action at the legislative level enabling legislators with reliable data/analysis on air-quality. F. SW-AQA as Convenor: SW-AQA work program is based on the Power of Convening using four convening institutions as its strategies: 1. Convening power of the United Nations, and its affiliated agencies [the World Bank, the UN Environment Programme and the World Health Organisation] – SW-AQA meetings are set as side-events to UN meetings. SW-AQA promotes the use of reliable data on air quality monitoring and the costs of air pollution to the human health, economy, and agriculture/ecosystems. 2. Convening power of parliament – SW-AQA national meetings, to the extent possible, are held in the national legislature and hosted by parliamentarians. The legislature is where competing natural interests and agendas come together to make and implement policy. It has the power to call the government and any individual expert to testify; parliament is the highest political authority in any country. 3. Convening power of NGO coalitions – SW-AQA is working collaboratively with leading NGO experts from Greenpeace, Clean Air Asia, US-Asia Institute whose experts present at SW-AQA meetings. SW-AQA is a stakeholder with the Global Urban Air Pollution Observatory (GUAPO) and a member of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) and the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution (GAHP). National Projects are implemented with local NGO partners. 4. Convening the media –SW-AQA formal meetings allow open media coverage, SW-AQA also works with media/communications partners to use the public platform of legislators to communicate and promote a message of clean air policies to the general public. Organizational Strength SW-AQA’s leadership is uniquely well-placed to undertake this project with three decades of high-level experience in parliamentary development, ratification and implementation of UN agreements, treaties and conventions. In addition to parliamentary experts, SW-AQA’s board, advisors and national-level collaborators including current Members of Parliament, health experts, environmental lawyers, economists and civil society activists and researchers. https://www.airqualityasia.org/leadership SW-AQA’s efficacy is in bringing key stakeholders to the table at meetings convened by national parliamentarians combining technical experience with parliamentary action. Uniqueness SW-AQA is the only organization linking the implementation of Paris Climate agreement and the SDGs 2030 through a focus on improving air-quality – reduction of carbon emissions is the means to both ends. Additionally, SW-AQA is also the only organization working with national legislative bodies to help them bridge the gaps between their current air-quality frameworks and the required air-quality regulations within the SDGs 2030 that their governments have already signed/ratified. Sustainability and Scalability SW-AQA has achieved record concrete results within four years with the support of seed grants from the Growald Family Fund, Flora Family Fund, European Climate Foundation, SED Fund. SW-AQA is now raising funds for national level projects with some continued core support. For diversification of funding and long-term sustainability of our work it is important for SW-AQA to have regular funding support of individual donors and the private sector. Funding Restrictions Sustainable World Inc.- AirQualityAsia, declares that it does not engage in lobbying activities. i) SW-AQA is committed to being non-discriminatory in our hiring practices, our operations as well as our programs. We affirmatively follow these principles in all that we do in all countries in which we operate. ii) All of the donations we receive are applied to our non-secular focus on helping governments strengthen national environmental and energy policies related to clean air. iii) SW-AQA is a strong advocate for public policies that help our environment and provide cleaner air. We do not lobby for specific political candidates and all that we do complies with the requirements applicable to tax-exempt organizations under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.