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  2. Category:Transboundary environmental issues - Wikipedia

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    Transboundary environmental issues are those which affect a number of neighbouring countries. This is in contrast to global environmental issues which concern the entire planet. Subcategories

  3. Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution

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    The aim of the Convention is that Parties shall endeavour to limit and, as far as possible, gradually reduce and prevent air pollution including long-range transboundary air pollution. Parties develop policies and strategies to combat the discharge of air pollutants through exchanges of information, consultation, research and monitoring.

  4. U.S.–Canada Air Quality Agreement - Wikipedia

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    Transboundary air pollution occurs when pollution created in one country negatively impacting another country. [10] The bilateral agreement has three main objectives: reducing the impacts of transboundary pollution, prioritizing health and the environment, and corroborating to ensure each country is meeting its air quality standards. [11]

  5. Air pollution - Wikipedia

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    A study concluded that PM 2.5 air pollution induced by the contemporary free trade and consumption by the 19 G20 nations causes two million premature deaths annually, suggesting that the average lifetime consumption of about ~28 people in these countries causes at least one premature death (average age ~67) while developing countries "cannot be ...

  6. Volatile Organic Compounds Protocol - Wikipedia

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    The Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution Concerning the Control of Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds or Their Transboundary Fluxes (known as the Volatile Organic Compounds Protocol or the VOC Protocol) is a protocol to the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution which aims to provide for the control and reduction of emissions of volatile ...

  7. Pollution - Wikipedia

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    Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change. [1] Pollution can take the form of any substance (solid, liquid, or gas) or energy (such as radioactivity, heat, sound, or light). Pollutants, the components of pollution, can be either foreign substances/energies or naturally occurring ...

  8. Southeast Asian haze - Wikipedia

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    The Southeast Asian haze is a fire-related recurrent transboundary air pollution issue. Haze events, where air quality reaches hazardous levels due to high concentrations of airborne particulate matter from burning biomass , [ 1 ] have caused adverse health, environmental and economic impacts in several countries in Southeast Asia .

  9. Trail Smelter dispute - Wikipedia

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    Trail Smelter in 1929. The Trail Smelter dispute was a trans-boundary pollution case involving the federal governments of both Canada and the United States, which eventually contributed to establishing the harm principle in the environmental law of transboundary pollution.