Particle emissions from modern vehicles

Particle emissions from modern vehicles

Ultra-low sulphur fuels have enabled the introduction of modern engine and after-treatment technologies in order to meet increasingly stringent exhaust emissions limits. Through these improvements, substantial reductions in road vehicle emissions have occurred over...
Cost-benefit analysis for air quality policies

Cost-benefit analysis for air quality policies

An article published in CONCAWE Review Vol. 15, No. 2, described the methodology for assigning a monetary value to the effects of air pollution on human health. In the present article we briefly reintroduce some important concepts, discuss updates of actual monetary...
Cost-benefit analysis and air quality policy

Cost-benefit analysis and air quality policy

Air quality policy measures implemented in the past decades have successfully reduced national pollutant emissions in all European countries. Not surprisingly, it now becomes more difficult to identify additional measures that will lead to meaningful emission...
The Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) Directive

The Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) Directive

In the Autumn of 2005, during the preparatory work by DG Environment to revise the current Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) Directive, CONCAWE published the results of a small but important study examining the consequences of a departure from the...