The Environment Ministry is hosting the AIR 2050: Smart Cities – Sustainable and Clean Air Technology Innovation Forum on Monday and Tuesday, inviting international experts and officials from relevant departments of the U.S. and Japan to discuss and solve the major problems currently affecting air quality.
In his speech, Environment Minister Peng Chi-ming (彭啓明) underscored the importance of overcoming eight challenges when creating sustainably clean environments. These include:
Traffic and industrial emissions
Lack of indoor air pollution awareness
Little public-private collaboration
Knowledge blind spots between scientific data and public perception
Verifying the correlation between air pollution and health conditions
Creation of sufficient air pollution control tools
Improvement of air pollution warnings
Establishment of an intersectional industry-academia-research mechanism
Peng said that he hopes all these urgent issues can be resolved and, through in-depth discussions at the forum, ideas can be focused and transformed into specific policies.
Officials from Japan’s Environment Ministry, California’s South Coast Air Quality Management Bureau, and other international experts and scholars were invited to share atmospheric composition analysis, aerosol formation mechanisms, pollution control experience, AI technology applications, and more, hoping to further optimize governance strategies.