Pollution Policy-Tracker
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- Discretion to differentiate standards e.g. in different subnational states
- Objective of air pollution regime
- Legal right to AAQS specified in the legislation
- Direct reference to WHO guidelines in the instrument
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Legal standards for pollutants
- Provisions for transboundary air pollution
- Specific indoor/household air pollution standards
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- Eastern Africa Regional Framework Agreement on Air Pollution (Nairobi Agreement)
- Central and Western African Regional Framework Agreement on Air Pollution (Abidjan Agreement)
- Southern Africa Regional Framework Agreement on Air Pollution (Lusaka Agreement)
- Regional Action Plan on Air Quality for Latin America and the Caribbean
- Malé Declaration on Control and Prevention of Air Pollution and Its Likely Transboundary Effects for South Asia
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- UNECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution
- 1999 Protocol to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-level Ozone (Gothenburg Protocol)
- 1998 Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)
- 1998 Protocol on Heavy Metals
- 1994 Oslo Protocol on Further Reduction of Sulphur Emissions
- 1991 Geneva Protocol concerning the Control of Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds or their Transboundary Fluxes
- 1988 Sofia Protocol concerning the Control of Emissions of Nitrogen Oxides or their Transboundary Fluxes
- 1985 Helsinki Protocol on the Reduction of Sulphur Emissions or their Transboundary Fluxes by at least 30 per cent
- 1984 Geneva Protocol on Long-term Financing of the Cooperative Programme for Monitoring and Evaluation of the Long-range Transmission of Air Pollutants in Europe (EMEP)
- ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution
- Stockholm Convention on POPs
- Constitutional guarantees
- Use of air quality index
- Definition/scope of air pollution in legislation
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