This guide is a tool for those responsible for the development of Air Quality Improvement Management Programs, to provide a roadmap for their development....

The First Global Assessment of Air Pollution Legislation (GAAPL) presents the findings of a study of air quality legislation in 194 countries and the European Union. Using the Air Quality Guidelines developed by the World Health Organization as a starting point, the report examines the legal measures for determining whether air quality standards are being met and what legal standards exist for fai...

The First Global Assessment of Air Pollution Legislation (GAAPL) presents the findings of a study of air quality legislation in 194 countries and the European Union. Using the Air Quality Guidelines developed by the World Health Organization as a starting point, the report examines the legal measures for determining whether air quality standards are being met and what legal standards exist for fai...

This Guide on Ambient Air Quality Legislation is designed to assist national lawmakers and policymakers in developing or improving ambient air quality legislation, with the aim of promoting robust national systems of air quality governance that prioritize public health outcomes, respecting that all humans share the same need to breathe air of adequate quality. This Guide addresses a lacuna that ex...

The aim of this present document is to provide Parties to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention on Longrange Transboundary Air Pollution with guidance in identifying the best abatement options for mobile emission sources, with particular reference to the Best Available Technique (BAT), in order to assist them in meeting the obligations of the 1999 Protocol to Abate A...

The guidance document outlines control techniques for emissions of sulphur, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds, and particulate matter from stationary sources. It provides comprehensive guidelines on best available techniques for reducing emissions and improving air quality. The document aims to provide support to Parties to the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (...

At its thirty-first session (Geneva, 11–13 December 2012), the Executive Body to the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution adopted a guidance document on economic instruments to reduce emissions of regional air pollutants to the 1999 Protocol to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-level Ozone (Gothenburg Protocol), and decided that it would be the guidance document referr...

At its thirty-first session (Geneva, 11–13 December 2012), the Executive Body to the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution adopted a guidance document on national nitrogen budgets which corresponds to the the guidance document referred to in article 7, paragraph 3 (d), of the 1999 Gothenburg Protocol to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-level Ozone, as amended (ECE/EB.A...

"At its thirty-first session (Geneva, 11–13 December 2012), the Executive Body to the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution adopted a guidance document on preventing and abating ammonia emissions from agricultural sources, and decided that it would be the guidance document referred to in article 3, paragraph 8 (b), and paragraph 6, annex IX, to the of the 1999 Protocol to Abate Acid...

With the success of policies to reduce SO2 and NOx emissions across the UNECE, ammonia (NH3) emissions remain a key challenge for the future. They are one of the largest contributors to acidification and eutrophication, while adding to the burden of particulate matter. As ammonia now offers ‘low-hanging fruit’ for further pollution control, combined with local and transboundary effects on health a...