The Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution – a 40th Anniversary health-check

2nd October 2019


It is 40 years since the UNECE published the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP). Although applying the CLRTAP has achieved a great deal, air pollution is still a challenge. Therefore this webinar describes the factors that led to the CLRTAP, its many successes, and why we still need further reductions in emissions.

It is 40 years since the UNECE published the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP). Up until the 1970s, legislators and policy makers typically regarded air pollution as only a local issue. However, a growing body of scientific evidence overwhelmingly shows that air pollution is at least a continental problem, not just local. As a result of this, the CLRTAP was formed, which committed its signatories to significantly reduce emissions of damaging pollutants.

The CLRTAP triggered several international protocols to set targets for emissions reductions of pollutants such as sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, ammonia, fine particulate-matter, ammonia and persistent organic pollutants (POPs).

Although applying the CLRTAP has achieved a great deal, air pollution is still a challenge. Therefore this webinar describes the factors that led to the CLRTAP, its many successes, and why we still need further reductions in emissions.

Your Speaker

Rick Gould - Senior Air Quality Advisor for the Environment Agency. Rick's main area of work concerns the National Emissions Ceilings Directive, which sprang from the CLRTAP.

Presentations

Slides from webinar - S.Clubb, IEMA Head of Policy and Practice - CLICK HERE

Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution: A 40-year success story - Rick Gould, Senior Air Quality Advisor for the Environment Agency - CLICK HERE


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