The International Union of Air Pollution Prevention and Environmental Protection Associations (IUAPPA) is an international federation of civil society organisations concerned with

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. IUAPPA, founded 1964 at the urging of the US Air Pollution Control Association,Joachim Radkau: The Age of Ecology. Wiley, 2014 has 40 national organisations from countries such as the United States (

Air and Waste Management Association The Air & Waste Management Association (abbreviated AWMA) is an international nonprofit professional organization focused on environmental protection and improving environmental decision-making. As of 2021, it has over 5,000 professional members ...

), Germany (

Verein Deutscher Ingenieure Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (VDI) (English: Association of German Engineers) is an organization of over 150,000 engineers and natural scientists. More than 12,000 honorary experts process the latest technical findings each year to promote the techn ...

) and Japan (Japan Environmental Management Association for Industry) and has networks and representatives in most others countries. The Foundation is seen as one milestone in the "Ecological Revolution" in and around 1970.

Focus

The focus of IUAPPA is "the development and implementation of more effective policies for the prevention and control of air pollution, the protection of the environment and the adoption of sustainable development". IUAPPA wants to achieve the adoption and effective implementation of policies which can secure a clean and healthy atmospheric environment, together with scientists, policy-makers, regulators, business and citizen groups with this same objective. The Global Atmospheric Pollution Forum was initiated by IUAPPA and the

Stockholm Environment Institute The Stockholm Environment Institute, or SEI, is a non-profit, independent research and policy institute specialising in sustainable development and environmental issues, with seven affiliate offices around the world. SEI works on climate change ...

. European Federation of Clean Air and Environmental Protection Associations (EFCA) was founded by the core of European members of the International Union of Air Pollution Prevention and Environmental Protection Associations, IUAPPA

Governance

The IUAPPA secretariat is in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, United Kingdom. The president is

Kil-Choo Moon Kil-Choo Moon is a leading Korean engineer and environmental scientist and President of the International Union of Air Pollution Prevention and Environmental Protection Associations ( IUAPPA). He has served as President of the Korea Institute of ...

of the

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and the director general is Richard Mills. IUAPPA is governed by an International Board which consists of the President, Vice-Presidents, Immediate Past President and Honorary Treasurer, together with one authorised representative from each Full Member of the Union.

Partners and Members

IUAPPA is a partner of

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Climate and Clean Air Coalition and has worked close together over the past decades with UNEP and

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. Selected Members *

Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand The Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand (CASANZ) is a non-governmental, non-profit organization formed in the 1960s to bring together people with an interest in clean air and the study of air pollution. Its focus has since grown to inclu ...

*Commission on Air Pollution Prevention of VDI and DIN – KRdL, Kommission Reinhaltung der Luft im VDI und DIN - Normenausschuss KRdL *Japanese Union of Air Pollution Prevention Associations (JUAPPA), Nihon Taiki Kougai Boushi Dantai Rengoukai *

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, formerly National Society for Clean Air and Environmental Protection - NSCA *Air & Waste Management Association *Cercl'Air, Switzerland, Service de l'environnement *The Swedish Clean Air Society

World Clean Air Congress

The World Clean Air Congress, first organized by IUAPPA in 1966, is held every two or three years. It is one of the major international gatherings on atmospheric sciences and policy with 1,500 participants. Some of the more recent congresses are: * the 16th IUAPPA World Clean Air Congress, ''Many Nations – One Atmosphere: Plotting the Path to Sustainability'' was held at the Cape Town, with a call on South African industry to show leadership and comply with emission standards. Delegates at the 16th congress heard mostly poor South Africans were exposed to pollutants. "The people that are exposed to the smog are almost always the people that cannot afford to pay the doctors' bills for bronchitis, asthma or, worse, lung cancer," Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa said in a speech. * the 17th IUAPPA World Clean Air Congress, ''Mega Cities Perspective, Healthier and Greener Future'', held in Busan, Korea in 2016

Resolutions and Declarations

Ever since it was founded in 1964 the Union has had a long-term interest in the relationship between

and the earth's climate. Policy declarations in 1989 were one of the first to focus on

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. The focus in 1995 was on the changing

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landscape and pollution. In 2001 it was worldwide action on long-range transport of air pollution. 2010's focus was ''One Atmosphere''.

Awards

In collaboration with the International Academy of Science, Munich the Union offers the

Thomas Kuhn Thomas Samuel Kuhn (; July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American philosopher of science whose 1962 book ''The Structure of Scientific Revolutions'' was influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term '' paradigm ...

Award for a new understanding of problems of sustainability or the applied transfer of such new solutions and the

Yuan T. Lee Yuan Tseh Lee (; born 19 November 1936) is a Taiwanese chemist and a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the first Taiwanese Nobel Prize laureate who, along with the Hungarian-Canadian John C. Polanyi and America ...

Award for multi-disciplinary or cross-disciplinary work which relates to the natural and psycho-sciences in pursuit of sustainability.

Publications

*Ranjeet Sokhi (ED.): World Atlas of Atmospheric Pollution. The World Atlas was developed in conjunction with the International Union of Air Pollution Prevention and Environmental Protection Associations (IUAPPA) and the Global Atmospheric Pollution Forum. *IUAPPA Three Year Review: 2007 - 2010
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