This report presents the first comprehensive analysis of approaches to establishing BAT and similar concepts to prevent and control industrial emissions in a wide range of countries, including the following OECD Members and Partners: the Russian Federation, Korea, the United States, the European Union, India, the People’s Republic of China and New Zealand. For each country, the report presents extensive information on the procedures for collection of data on techniques for control and prevention of industrial pollution, evaluation of the techniques and identification of BAT. In addition, the report covers international initiatives facilitating the application of BAT, including under the …

The Fourteenth Session of the Intergovernmental Meeting (IG14) of the Malé Declaration on Control and Prevention of Air Pollution and its LikelyTransboundary Effects for South Asia (Malé Declaration) was held in Bangkok, Thailand on 25 November 2015. The event was attended by the representatives of the eight participating countries, namely, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Experts from international organisations, such as the Asian Institute of Technology, the South Asia Cooperative Environment Programme (SACEP), the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), the United Nations Environment Program, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (UNEP ROAP), and the Secretariat, …

The Fourteenth Session of the Intergovernmental Meeting (IG14) of the Malé Declaration on Control and Prevention of Air Pollution and its LikelyTransboundary Effects for South Asia (Malé Declaration) was held in Bangkok, Thailand on 25 November 2015.

To make it easy for the National Implementing Agency (NIA) personnel to perform their tasks proficiently, it was also decided to develop a Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) manual. Accordingly, this manual has been written by Asian technical advisor on monitoring to the Malé Declaration, checked and reviewed by the MoC.

Atmospheric brown cloud (ABC), a frequently occurring phenomenon in many regions of the world, is a regional scale plume of air pollution that consists of a mixture of anthropogenic sulfate, nitrate, organics, black carbon, dust and fly ash particles and natural aerosols, such as sea salt and mineral dust. Greater awareness of the ABC problem was generated by the 1999 Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX) initiative over the North Indian Ocean region. Global concern came about following the first preliminary report on ABC, which was based on INDOEX. The global implications of ABCs were highlighted by the United Nations Environment Programme …