Support for National Air Pollution Control Strategies 2018-2020

The UK has recently adopted ambitious targets to reduce emissions of five damaging air pollutants (ammonia, nitrogen oxides, non-methane volatile organic compounds, fine particulate matter and sulphur dioxide) by 2020 and 2030; aiming to cut early deaths from air pollution by half. The Government is developing a new Clean Air Strategy, setting out a work plan towards these goals, for consultation in 2018. The new reduction targets support the objectives of the international Gothenburg Protocol and the revised Natio...