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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-3825-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-3825-2016
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22 Mar 2016
Research article |  | 22 Mar 2016

Forty years of improvements in European air quality: regional policy-industry interactions with global impacts

Monica Crippa, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, Frank Dentener, Diego Guizzardi, Katerina Sindelarova, Marilena Muntean, Rita Van Dingenen, and Claire Granier

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The interplay of European air quality policies and technological advancement to reduce anthropogenic emissions avoided a dramatic deterioration of air quality in Europe and beyond over the last 40 years (e.g. fuel quality directives reduced global SO2 emissions by 88 %, while the EURO standards led to a 50 % reduction of PM2.5). The story told by the EDGAR retrospective scenarios can be informative for designing multi-pollutant abatement policies also in emerging economies.
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