Organizing air quality monitoring and initiating enforcement activities with the city and local level environmental authorities play a key role in improving China’s air quality. However, existing air quality monitoring networks and enforcement systems are still far from being effective and efficient.The Cangzhou pilot project, organized by Environmental Defense Fund China, Cangzhou City government...

For two years, the Breathe London pilot project mapped and measured air quality across the city, demonstrating that lower-cost sensor systems and mobile monitoring are valid ways to better understand pollution.Many cities around the world have been watching the project with interest in replicating our best practices.That’s why the Environmental Defense Fund created the Breathe London Blueprint – w...

This report is the Fourth Periodic Report on the State of Acid Deposition in East Asia (PRSAD4). The EANET data of 2015-2019 is utilized for evaluating the current status and impact of the acid deposition and air pollution in the EANET region. This report also includes the long-term analysis of the temporal trend and variation, spatial distribution, and possible impact on the eco system of acid de...

The “Review on the State of Air Pollution in East Asia (The RSAP)” aims at synthesizing best scientific knowledge on the present status on air pollution and its environmental impacts, focusing mainly on East Asia. It is expected to be a basis for discussions on the future development and expansion of scope for the EANET. The present status of Particulate Matter (PM) and Haze, Oxidants, and Acidifi...

 EANET has released the latest version of its Brochure. The 15-pages’ document first sets out the environmental and regional context in which the Intergovernmental Initiative has emerged, justifying the need for regional cooperation to prevent the increasing trends of Air pollution in East Asia, before entering into details on the definition of the region’s major pollutants and the mechanism ...

Decision 2019/4, taken by the Executive Body in December 2019, established the scope and content of the review of the Amended Gothenburg Protocol. The Group for the Review of the Gothenburg Protocol (GPG) developed the document “Preparations for the review of the Protocol to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication, and Ground-level ozone, as amended in 2012 (2020/3) (AGP)”, adopted in December 2020. A...

In the scope of the review of the Amended Gothenburg Protocol, the review of its Technical Annex VIII, “Limit values for fuels and new mobile sources” and its associated guidance document was performed by TFTEI. A report has been prepared. In particular, the emission limit values (ELVs) in the existing TA VIII are compared with the emission levels achievable with latest abatement technologies. Thi...

Reduction techniques in cement production were covered by TFTEI several years ago, but it was necessary to update all the information previously provided. This document replaces all previous ones.In this update, the most recent information on emission abatement techniques, their efficiencies and their costs are provided. ...

This informal background document has been prepared by TFTEI technical secretariat and provides a compact overview of the state-of-the-art in air pollutant reduction techniques from aluminium production. After a brief general description of the aluminium production processes, the report provides a systematic overview of relevant air pollutants and the corresponding abatement techniques, mainly bas...

The reduction of BC and PAH emissions is linked to the reduction of PM emissions. This report provides an overview of BC, PAH and ultrafine particles (UFP) emissions and the effect of PM emission reduction measures on emissions of these species. The study was extended, as far as possible, to all carbonaceous species such as secondary organic aerosols (SOA) and brown carbon (BrC), which have an imp...