The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) and the Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities (CAI-Asia) hosted a workshop on measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the transportation sector on 9 February 2012 held in Manila, Philippines. This is in line with work on the assessment of transport data collection and management in selected key Asian cities and its implications to potential MRV framework based on the lessons from the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and other existing methodologies.

As part of CAI-Asia's mission to promote better air quality and livable cities, CAI-Asia conducted an annual review of main events relevant to air quality, climate change and transport in Asia. The review, which started on 2008 and initially focused on sustainable transport, has now evolved to include air quality and climate events. It is an opportunity to look back and understand where Asia focused in the past year and foresee emerging trends in Asia in the coming years.