Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution
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| Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution | |
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| Legal status: | Legally binding |
| Scope: | Global |
| Language: | English, Russian |
| 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(s): | Qualitative, quantitative:gradually reduce and prevent air pollution including long-range transboundary air pollution |
| Main formal decision making body: | United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) |
| Main implementing body: | Signatories Parties |
| Policy area: | Environment |
| Instruments: | Regulatory informational |
| Monitoring, assessment and reporting: | Parties develop policies and strategies to combat the discharge of air pollutants through exchanges of information, consultation, research and monitoring. |
| Linkages to other policy processes: | Framework of the ECE on the Protection of the Environment, The Aarhus Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants, Gothenburg (Multi-effect) Protocol |
| Keywords: | Air pollutants emissions, environmental problems, transboundary impacts |
| URL: | Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution website |
| Description: | The Convention 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. |
| Format: | html |
| Access: | Free |
| Publisher: | United Nations |
| Country(ies): | USA |
| Date: | 31/11/2011 |
The Convention 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.
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| 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. |
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| Keywords | Air pollutants emissions, environmental problems, transboundary impacts |
