Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution
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| Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution | |
|---|---|
| Start date: | 1979 |
| Scope: | Global |
| Policy area: | Environment |
| Legal status: | Legally binding |
| Type of instrument: | Regulatory |
| Form of instrument: | Convention |
| Language: | English, Russian |
| URL: | Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution website |
| Format: | html |
| Access: | Free |
| Publisher: | UNECE |
| Country(ies): | USA |
| Date: | 31/11/2011 |
The Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP) is an international agreement to protect human health and the natural environment from air pollution by control and reduction of air pollution, including long-range transboundary air pollution.
| Objective | To deal with problems of air pollution on a broad regional basis and to sets up an institutional framework bringing together research and policy. |
| Target | Long-range transboundary air pollution |
| Policy and/or legal framework | Ministerial conference of the ECE on the Protection of the Environment |
| Monitoring, assessing and reporting | Working group on effect through International Cooperative Programmes |
| Linkage(s) to policy processes, instruments and institutions | Aarhus convention,UNFCCC, UNECE,IPCC |
| Main formal decision making body | The meeting of the parties |
| Main implementing body | An implementation committee consisting in nine parties of the convention |
| Keywords | Air pollutants emissions, environmental problems, transboundary impacts |
| FOREST EUROPE criteria | FOREST EUROPE indicators | ToSIA indicators |
| No FOREST EUROPE criteria for this Policy process and instrument | No FOREST EUROPE indicators for this Policy process and instrument | No ToSIA indicators for this Policy process and instrument |
