September 2008
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Air & Climate E-Zine September 2008 |
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| This Month´s Featured Articles, Papers & Reports |
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In the queue for clean air
The National Emissions Ceilings Directive (NECD), adopted in 2001, defines the maximum emissions on a national level for four major air pollutants that have a high impact on human health and the environment. These are: sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds and ammonia. The Directive will undergo revision in 2008, which would set new interim air quality targets and related new national emissions ceilings to be achieved by Member States by 2020. This report assesses the ... |
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Getting to 2050: Canada`s transition to a low-emission future
Climate change is upon us. Scientific studies are increasingly confident in the assessment of the relationship between observed climate warming and impacts on the earth. They are concluding that a large part of this change is directly related to human sources of greenhouse gases (GHG). Reducing the GHG emissions we put into the atmosphere is central to contributing to the global objective to achieve the stabilization of GHG concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous ... |
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