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Accurate emission inventories are crucial for informed decisions about emission control strategies. Emission inventory activities are now well established throughout the world and a large body of resources is available to assist in estimating emissions at the global, regional and local scale. Work is ongoing to refine methodologies and to address additional sources and pollutants such as fine particulate matter.
During the last decade innovative concepts for emission control legislation were developed. Market based instruments can achieve envisaged emission reductions at lower costs than conventional approaches. Air quality management is now understood as a multi-pollutant, multi-effect task, which offers a significant cost saving potential if synergistic effects are fully utilized. Integrated assessment models proved useful in managing the vast volume of relevant information needed for the design of cost-effective emission control strategies.
Europe and North America have embarked on ambitious control strategies that will lead to significant reductions in the emissions of some of the conventional pollutants (e.g., SO2, NOx, VOC). There are also first indications of a structural break that could reverse the long-term growth trend of SO2 emissions also in the fast developing nations of Asia.
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Amann, M. Emission Inventories, Emission Control Options and Control Strategies: An Overview of Recent Developments. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution 130, 43–50 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012239116562
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