AARHUS UPDATE

BY KEITH NUTHALLA WIDE range of industries will have to declare information about their pollution emissions under a new protocol to the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters. Agreed by member countries of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), it insists that signatory governments set up national pollution inventories known as pollutant release and transfer registries, covering information on 86 damaging emissions, including greenhouse gases, acid rain ...


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