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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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