Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution

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Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution
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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Keywords Air pollutants emissions, environmental problems, transboundary impacts