Exchanging information to control transboundary air pollution

The Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution aims to (1) protect man and the environment against air pollution and (2) endeavour to limit and, as far as possible, gradually reduce and prevent air pollution, including long-range transboundary air pollution by means of exchanges of information, consultation, research and monitoring, policies and strategies to be developed without undue delay which will serve as a means of combating the discharge of air pollutants.

1. Informing
2. Improving exchange of technical information concerning problems
3. Exchanging knowledge on planetary science
4. Exchanging information on transboundary issues
5. Establishing chemical information systems
6. Disseminating environmental information
7. Controlling transboundary air pollution
8. Exchanging scientific knowledge

1. Providing information about national strategies to control transboundary air pollution
2. Providing impact information for transboundary air pollution
3. Informing about industrial development decisions affecting transboundary air pollution
4. Exchanging physico-chemical information relating to transboundary air pollution
5. Exchanging meteorological information on transboundary air pollution
6. Exchanging information on transmission processes leading to transboundary air pollution
7. Exchanging information on costs of control technologies for transboundary air pollution
8. Exchanging information on control technologies for transboundary air pollution
9. Exchanging biological information relating to transboundary air pollution
10. Agreeing standards for information exchange on transboundary air pollution
11. Agreeing standard procedures for monitoring transboundary air pollution
12. Agreeing size of flux-units for measuring transboundary air pollution

1. Supporting gathering of industry information
2. Strengthening network of national information exchange centres on chemicals
3. Strengthening information networks on innovative waste disposal methods
4. Providing environmental information systems
5. Maximizing use of information on chemicals management
6. Increasing information exchange on marine and coastal issues
7. Improving information systems on toxic chemicals
8. Improving information systems for international governmental decision-making processes
9. Improving developing countries' access to international information systems on chemicals
10. Facilitating international information exchanges on urban transportation
11. Exchanging information on programmes to reduce toxic chemical risk
12. Evaluating toxicological information
13. Developing information exchange on carbon dioxide emissions

1. Supporting regional transfer of chemical safety information
2. Supporting cooperative international arrangements on environmental information among countries
3. Strengthening national centres for information exchange on toxic chemicals
4. Providing information on environmental technology
5. Funding scientific information networks on the environment
6. Exchanging information about environmentally sound technology
7. Establishing clearing houses for environmentally sound technology
8. Disseminating corrosion information
9. Developing national information systems

1. Limiting availability of functional information

1. Mediating transboundary air pollution disputes

1. Long-range transboundary air pollution

1. Self-control
2. Pollution
3. Misinformation
4. Information
5. Disinformation

1. Center for International Earth Science Information Network
2. Ambient air pollution: Policy and progress
3. PROTOCOL TO THE 1979 CONVENTION ON LONG-RANGE TRANSBOUNDARY AIR POLLUTION
4. Transboundary Air Pollution
5. National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory: Transboundary Air Pollution
6. Air Pollution