CLRTAP

The Air Convention Parties have committed to a revision of the Gothenburg Protocol. A recent review report pointed out that despite reductions in emissions, existing measures fall short in safeguarding human health, ecosystems, crop yields, and the climate.

The Air Convention has developed and applied new tools resulting in cost-effective, effect-based strategies to tackle air pollution.

The amended Gothenburg Protocol under the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP) came into force on 7 October, after the eighteenth ratification, by Luxembourg in July.

Because air pollution knows no boundaries, emissions of air pollutants produced elsewhere can have an impact on local acidification, eutrophication and air quality. This highlights the need for international cooperation on air pollution issues such as in the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution work.