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Air Quality

The Seventh Environment Action Programme (7th EAP) includes the objective of ensuring that outdoor air quality in the EU will have improved significantly by 2020, moving closer to World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. Observing the existing EU air quality legislation standards is a chief milestone in this respect.

Despite some improvements, thanks to the implementation of EU legislation on emissions of air pollutants and air quality, key EU air quality standards for the protection of human health - concentrations of particulate matter (PM), ozone (O3) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) - are currently not being met in various air quality monitoring stations in the EU. This is particularly true for urban areas, where more than 70 % of the EU population lives.

This can be mainly attributed to the high level of emissions from road traffic and residential combustion in urban areas and unfavourable conditions for the dispersion of emissions due to topography and meteorological issues. Because of their widespread exceedances in urban areas, it is unlikely that the air quality standards for these pollutants will be met by 2020, while achieving air quality in line with the WHO guidelines is much further away.

It should be noted that in 2015 compared with 2014 there has been more urban population exposed to exceedances of the air quality standards for ozone, nitrogen dioxides and dust particles. Further action will be needed, in particular in relation to road traffic and residential combustion in urban areas.

Sources:
- www.eea.europa.eu/airs/2017/environment-and-health/outdoor-air-quality-urban-areas

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All Air Quality projects

Below is a list of all Air Quality projects on Climatescan.

Dv 14 Mar 2024
Swale dr 14 Mar 2024
Parking no pavement 08 Mar 2024
Retentie a12 25 Feb 2024
Volle retentie a12 25 Feb 2024
Retentie a12 25 Feb 2024
Land van cuijk 25 Feb 2024
A77 retention 25 Feb 2024
Fontijn rot 25 Feb 2024
Eot wadi 25 Feb 2024
Rotonde b 25 Feb 2024
Band berm 25 Feb 2024
Wannsum 25 Feb 2024
Retentie 25 Feb 2024
Retention 25 Feb 2024
Retentie 24 Feb 2024
Sluis maas 24 Feb 2024
Switch air quality 22 Feb 2024
Air Pollution 02 Feb 2024
Factory Chimney Fumes 01 Feb 2024
Tree cutting 01 Feb 2024
Trash Piles 01 Feb 2024
Tree Cutting 30 Jan 2024
Land degradation 30 Jan 2024
Cutting Trees. 28 Jan 2024
Factory pollution 28 Jan 2024
Gr 28 Jan 2024
Gr m 28 Jan 2024
Green road dividers 21 Dec 2023
Green road dividers 21 Dec 2023
Giet bassin 15 Nov 2023
Gr track 14 Nov 2023
Sw 13 Nov 2023
repurpose 09 Nov 2023
Begroeide muur 06 Aug 2023
Wadiwijk Groenlo 01 Aug 2023
Gr d 25 Jul 2023
Bath 24 Jul 2023
Grid 23 Jul 2023
Gr 20 Jul 2023
Water retention 17 Jul 2023
Green roof muaeum 17 Jul 2023
RoDvwrges 2 16 Jul 2023
Wollaton Deer Park 05 Jul 2023
Vegetation on road 05 Jul 2023
Urbanised trees 05 Jul 2023
Public garden 04 Jul 2023
Green wall 04 Jul 2023
Grass verge and trees 04 Jul 2023
Trees and shrubs 04 Jul 2023
Park 04 Jul 2023
Green space 04 Jul 2023
Area of wild grass 04 Jul 2023
Roadside grass verge 03 Jul 2023
Grass roadside verge 30 Jun 2023
Roadside verge 30 Jun 2023
Grass verge 30 Jun 2023
Roadside grass verge 29 Jun 2023
Road side grass verge 29 Jun 2023
Rdam 23 May 2023
Grid 04 Apr 2023
Gr 30 Mar 2023
K 15 Mar 2023
W 15 Mar 2023
Urban bathing 24 Feb 2023
Ws aa maas 24 Feb 2023
Solar powered pump 01 Feb 2023
Trash cans 31 Jan 2023
Sugarcane residue 31 Jan 2023
Solar energy 31 Jan 2023
Beckenbauer osnabruck 29 Jan 2023
Tiny homes 27 Oct 2022
Carbon credit trees 22 Sep 2022
Bio Facades 01 Sep 2022
Tanishq Tailor 01 Sep 2022
Cody 31 Aug 2022
Groene trappen San f 06 Jul 2022
Schlosspark Oldenburg 04 Jul 2022
Park - Coimbra 25 May 2022
Waterberging burdock 18 May 2022
Greppel 27 Feb 2022
Raingarden Rehnsgatan 21 Jan 2022
Bal links 05 Jan 2022
Overlast locatie? 04 Jan 2022
Wadi groen dak 09 Nov 2021
Leuven romm 4 river 08 Nov 2021
Wadiwijk 28 Sep 2021
Ditzum 22 Jul 2020
Koken met Kropotkin 29 Jan 2020