Traduction de «local-scale air pollution » (Anglais → Français) :

local pollution | local air pollution

The local air quality standards (setting limit and/or target values for a range of air pollutants which may not be exceeded) are set under the Ambient Air Quality Directives.

The 2013 Clean Air Programme for Europe, which updates the 2005 EU Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution to set new strategic policy objectives for 2020 and 2030; The new National Emission Ceilings Directive (NEC Directive), which is the main legislative implementation of the new objectives, setting caps on national pollution of the main air pollutants; The Ambient Air Quality Directives, setting local air quality limits which may not be exceeded anywhere in the EU – they were not revised in the 2013 review. Source-specific legislation ...[+++] designed to limit emissions from specific economic sectors, such as the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED), the new Medium Combustion Plants Directive, the Euro standards for vehicles, energy efficiency standards, fuel standards for ships, etc.

In parallel, two public consultations were organised: a first at the end of 2011 focused on review of the strengths and weaknesses of the existing air quality policy framework; the second on-line public consultation of all stakeholders on the main policy options available to address the remaining air quality problems in early 2013.[7] A Eurobarometer survey seeking the view of the general public on air pollution issues was conducted and reported in 2012.[8] The Commission and the European Environment Agency (EEA) also conducted an Ai ...[+++]r Implementation Pilot project, bringing together 12 cities from across the Union to assess local experience with implementing the air policy framework.[9]

29. Underlines the urgency of further environmental protection measures, bearing in mind, for example, that in 2014 only eight out of 74 major cities reached the national standard of PM 2,5 air pollution concentration and given the fact that in China 190 million people fall ill due to contaminated water yearly; warns that the double water crisis (massive pollution combined with increased water usage) could cause major political and social instability; recalls that the cost of China’s environmental degradation is also felt in the neighbouring countries; highlights the costs of environmental degradation and hopes that the next Five-Year ...[+++] Plan will make the environment a priority; also stresses that a lack of environmental protection not only fails to prevent ecological damage, but is also a source of unfair competition practices; welcomes the EU-China agreement to enhance cooperation to address key environmental challenges such as air, water and soil pollution; welcomes the fact that under the new environmental protection law local cadres are accountable, also retroactively, for environmental damage caused during their tenure and that commitment to environmental protection will count stronger in the process of promotion of those local cadres; urges both national and local authorities to constructively and actively involve environmental organisations and grassroots movements as regards the monitoring, implementation and enforcement of China’s environmental policies and initiatives; points out that the June 2015 EU-China Summit also established environmental policy and climate change measures under which China is to comply with CO2 emissions limits with a view to the Paris Summit in December 2015 and in line with the objectives of the 2020 Strategic Agenda adopted in Beijing in 2013;