To improve air quality, UNECE member States have been working successfully since 1979 to reduce air pollution in the region through the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution.
This self-paced online course aims to raise awareness about air pollution and its effects, ways to prevent and reduce harmful emissions and the convention and its protocols as an international framework for cooperation on cleaner air.
The course features four distinct modules that aim to equip learners with the knowledge and resource materials to understand the main concepts in air pollution management, the basic principles of the convention and parties’ obligations under the convention and its protocols.
After completing the course, learners will be able to:
- Identify key air pollutants and their sources and effects
- Recall measures to reduce and prevent air pollution
- Recognize the value of the convention as a framework for international cooperation to reduce air pollution
- Define basic principles under the convention and its protocols
- Explain the basic obligations under the convention’s protocols
- Identify the key stakeholders and processes under the convention and its protocols