The Directive 2010/75/EU — known as the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) — establishes an integrated approach to controlling industrial pollution across the EU. It requires industrial installations to operate under environmental permits based on Best Available Techniques (BAT), with emission limit values set accordingly. It covers large plants in sectors such as energy, manufacturing...

This Roadmap for Harmonization of Vehicle Emission Standards in East Africa has been developed as part of PCFV/UN Environment’s support towards helping the East Africa subregion to initiate discussion on harmonization of vehicle emission standards in addition to helping individual nations in the sub-region to develop roadmaps for effective vehicle emissions inspection and maintenance (I/M) program...

This presentation by the ECOWAS Commission on the Status of implementation of the ECOWAS Directive on harmonised specifications for automotive fuels (gasoline and diesel) covers the following:GeneralityProcess of preparation of the harmonised specificationsMain study conclusionsMotivation for the harmonisationPresentation of the DirectiveSensitisation in Member StatesCurrent implementation status...

This EU Directive regulates the quality of petrol and diesel fuels placed on the internal market. It sets technical and environmental specifications for fuel used in road vehicles and non-road mobile machinery (including agricultural tractors, inland water‐way vessels when not at sea, recreational craft etc.).  Key rules include maximum sulphur content, limits on lead in petrol, provisions on...

Air pollution from road transport-related tailpipe emissions is a well-documented risk to human health. This study assesses the health impacts of these emissions under business-as-usual and various policy scenarios across 186 countries and territories, including 13 135 urban areas, until 2040, at a 1 km resolution. We evaluate emissions for 15 scenarios based on different combinations of key emiss...

Highlights50 percent of urban vehicle emissions and associated health impacts currently occur in regions that account for only twenty percent of global vehicle activity, especially developing regions of the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific.Diesel trucks and buses, especially those with minimal emission controls, account for more than 80 percent of global fine particle and n...

Background: Exposure to ozone and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) can cause adverse health effects, including premature mortality due to cardiopulmonary diseases and lung cancer. Recent studies quantify global air pollution mortality but not the contribution of different emissions sectors, or they focus on a specific sector.Objectives: Authors  estimated the global mortality burden of anthrop...

This report quantifies, for the first time, the global health loss from injuries and air pollution that can be attributed to motorized road transport. It combines estimates of the global burden of road injuries based on a large pool of new data from the most information-poor regions with estimates of the health effects of pollution from vehicles. The results of this analysis show the following:Mot...

China’s fuel quality standards and fuel supply management have long been an impediment to improved air quality by hindering the progress of vehicle emission control. This paper summarizes the status of China’s fuel quality standards, fuel supply and vehicle emission standards focusing on the major problems of fuel quality management. The mechanism that China uses to establish its fuel quality stan...

Global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions grew by 51% from 1990 to 2021. These emissions are causing the planet to warm at an alarming rate and contributing to the increasingly devastating storms, floods, fires and heatwaves the world is now grappling with.But where exactly do emissions come from?WRI's Climate Watch platform publishes comprehensive emissions data for all countries, sectors and gases, ...