D E S C R I P T I O N O F W O R K - MEGAPOLI - Dmi

April 12, 2007
To whom it may concern:
Molina Center for Energy and the Environment
3262 Holiday Court, Suite 201, La Jolla, CA 92037
Tel: 858-658-0273; Fax: 858-658-0429; http//www.mce2.org
We want to express our enthusiastic support of the main objectives of the MEGAPOLI project
“Megacities: Emissions, urban, regional and Global Atmospheric POLlution and climate effects,
and Integrated tools for assessment and mitigation” proposed to the 7 th Framework Programme.
The improved integrated modeling capability for air pollution in megacities, which will result
from MEGAPOLI, will not only benefit the scientific community but will also inform the policy
makers in Mexico City, as well as other urban centers around the world, so that they can design
strategies to improve air quality and mitigate climate change based on the best available science.
The Molina Center for strategic studies in Energy and the Environment (MCE2) (Centro Molina
para Estudios Estratégicos sobre Energía y Medio Ambiente) and the MILAGRO (Megacity
Initiative: Local And Global Research Observations) program will be pleased to collaborate with
the MEGAPOLI team. MILAGRO organized a major research field study in the Mexico City
Metropolitan Area and its surroundings in March 2006, bringing together an international
research team of hundreds of scientists where they collaborated with a large group of Mexican
investigators and government agencies in both scientific and educational activities. Preliminary
analysis of the comprehensive datasets has already generated a lot of interesting and important
scientific findings.
We will be happy to provide the MEGAPOLI team with the emission inventories, extensive
measurement datasets and associated information so that they can evaluate their modeling tools
in Mexico City. Our collaboration will involve participation in the advisory committee and
workshops of MEGAPOLI. We are willing together with the Mexican authorities to use the
MEGAPOLI findings into the Mexico City air pollution assessment, prediction and mitigation
strategy. We anticipate that such collaborative efforts will contribute to our understanding of
megacity air pollution and its potential impacts on human health, ecosystem viability and climate
change.
Sincerely yours,
Luisa T. Molina
Director