[Stoves] Mongolia: NHK World "Asia Insight" Series Documentary on Ulaanbaatar's Air Pollution and Stoves/Housing/District Heating (WB/UBCAP Spotlight)

[Crispin Pemberton-Pigott]

Dear Friends

 

There is an NHK World documentary on the stove replacement program in Mongolia (UB-CAP) and it has a lot of background information on the cases of the problem.

 

The stoves approved for distribution in 2013 are shown in Part 2.

 

There is an odd reference at 5m30 of Part one to ‘power station smoke’ but it shows (as is often the case in photos) the evaporating steam from the cooling towers.  Oh well. The rest is pretty accurate. There is very little smoke from the power stations in the city as the chimney for the big station is outside the airshed.  Power station does make some contribution but the main problem is still the humble domestic ‘ger stove’.

 

It mentions that the air quality (PM2.5) as being 30 times the WHO limit of 25 µg/m3 but is frequently much more than that. Perhaps they didn’t believe it!  The peak event recorded this year was >5000. Perhaps someone lit a stove under the detector’s intake! It certainly exceeds 3000 several times in November or December when the number of ignitions per day is highest. The smoke is almost all from the ignition cycle.

 

There are a few scenes taken inside the SEET Laboratory in Part 2. There are lots of chances to hear the unusual language of Mongolia.

 

The links below were provided by Batjargal, the communications officer for UB-CAP.

Part 1:  <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgdtNXzuv1U> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgdtNXzuv1U 

Part 2:  <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phd8djaBRtA> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phd8djaBRtA 

Regards

Crispin

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