ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

Human values

Emissions

Emissions

Problem

Lead as an environmental pollutant

Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide

Exploitation of fossil fuels

Emissions from combustion engines

Methane gas emissions from landfill sites

Industrial and domestic heating emissions as air pollutants

Industrial air emissions

Gamma ray disturbance in space

Methane gas emissions from animal husbandry

Gaseous air pollutants

Fugitive emissions

Prohibitive costs of purification of effluents and emissions

Domestic emissions

Strategy

Licensing carbon dioxide emissions

Developing policy on climate change

Setting targets for reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases

Registering industrial emissions

Reducing transport emissions

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions

Reducing emissions of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere

Reducing climate endangering emissions

Meeting zero emissions target

Introducing carbon taxes

Financing biodiversity conservation through emissions trading

Establishing global greenhouse trading system

Enforcing air quality controls

Avoiding diffuse pollution of agricultural chemicals

Using emission charges

Using methane emissions from landfill sites for energy

Using management programmes to reduce emissions of persistent organic pollutants

Using economic instruments to reduce emissions from persistent organic pollutants

Strengthening capacity to assess atmospheric emissions

Securing chemical data from industry for assessing potential risks

Reporting routine emissions of toxic chemicals to the environment

Removing sulphur oxides from industrial emissions

Reducing volatile organic compound emissions from petrol

Reducing sulphur dioxide emissions

Reducing petroleum fuel emissions to the atmosphere

Reducing nuclear reactor emissions from satellites

Reducing nitrogen oxides emissions

Reducing national annual emissions of nitrogen oxides

Reducing motor vehicle emissions

Reducing methane emissions from wetlands

Reducing methane emissions from rice fields

Reducing methane emissions from petroleum production

Reducing methane emissions from landfill sites

Reducing methane emissions from animal husbandry

Reducing industrial emissions

Reducing hydrocarbon emissions

Reducing emissions of persistent organic pollutants

Reducing emissions of halogenated gases

Reducing emissions from aeroplanes

Reducing carbon monoxide emissions

Reducing carbon dioxide emissions from motor vehicles

Reducing automobile emissions as air pollutants

Reducing atmospheric methane concentrations

Reducing amount of waste gases

Purifying effluents and emissions

Monitoring motor vehicle emissions

Monitoring gaseous emissions

Monitoring fossil fuel emissions

Monitoring emissions of carbon to the atmosphere

Identifying effects of nitrogen oxide emissions on the environment

Identifying effects of nitrogen oxide emissions on human health

Developing information exchange on carbon dioxide emissions

Decreasing atmospheric nitrous oxide concentrations

Deacidifying flue gases

Controlling transboundary emissions of persistent organic pollutants

Controlling transboundary emissions of nitrogen oxides

Controlling transboundary emissions of heavy metal pollutants

Controlling emissions of volatile organic compounds

Controlling emissions of persistent organic pollutants from stationary sources

Controlling emissions of persistent organic pollutants from mobile sources

Assessing and eliminating emissions of uncontrollable organo-halogens

Applying pollution control measures to nitrogen oxide emissions

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #7: Affordable and Clean Energy

Metadata

Database

Human values

Type

(D) Destructive values

Subject

Societal problems » Effluent

Content quality

Yet to rate

Language

English

1A4N

D1983

DOCID

11419830

D7NID

191536

Last update

Dec 2, 2024