The Economic Benefits of Air Quality Improvements in Arctic Council Countries
The Economic Benefits of Air Quality Improvements in Arctic Council Countries

Author: Oecd

Publisher:

Published: 2021-04-28

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9789264716704

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The Arctic is a vital region that helps preserve the balance of the global climate. The Arctic environment is particularly sensitive to short-lived climate pollutants, including black carbon, due to their strong warming effect. With ambitious policy action to reduce air pollutants, Arctic Council countries would obtain a positive effect on health and the environment throughout their territory, while also helping to slow down climate change by reducing emissions of black carbon. This report calls for ambitious policy action to reduce air pollution in Arctic Council countries, highlighting the environmental, health, and economic benefits from policy action.

Arctic Air Pollution
Arctic Air Pollution

Author: B. Stonehouse

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-01-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780521093392

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Arctic atmospheric pollution is now a major international issue. This volume presents the most authoritative review of this increasingly important subject for an audience of both scientists and administrators concerned with worldwide, as well as polar, pollution problems. Arctic Air Pollution is an edited collection of papers, first presented at a conference helo as the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge in 1985. Building on foundations established at earlier meetings, this volume examines the problem of Arctic air pollution in an integrated, multidisciplinary fashion, with contributions from leading authorities in chemistry, ecology, climatology and epidemiology. To chemists, physicists and climatologists, it presents scientific problems. Ecologists are concerned with environmental threats; medical researchers with potential threats to human health. International lawyers and administrators are concerned with the legal implications of pollutants transferred across continents. Overall hangs the major question; can man-made pollution affect the delicate energy balance of the Arctic, and precipitate major climatic change worldwide?

Arctic Air Pollution
Arctic Air Pollution

Author: Leonard A. Barrie

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 21

ISBN-13:

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Summarizes current state of knowledge of arctic air pollution and literature from which knowledge is drawn. Covers pollution meteorology of arctic, pollution sources and transport pathways, observations of arctic air pollution, deposition of pollutants: precipitation and glacier evidence, and implications and effects of arctic air pollution.

Arctic Haze : Arctic Air Pollution
Arctic Haze : Arctic Air Pollution

Author: Northwest Territories. Pollution Control Division

Publisher: Yellowknife, N.W.T. : Northwest Territories, Culture & Communications

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 1

ISBN-13: 9780770871635

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Brief description of origin and effects of industrial air pollution in the circumpolar regions, with map.

Arctic Haze and Air Pollution
Arctic Haze and Air Pollution

Author: Jozef M. Pacyna

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 7

ISBN-13:

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Arctic haze is the phenomenon of large-scale industrial air pollution found all through the arctic air mass. Vertical profiles of air concentrations, obtained during several aircraft measurement programs in the Arctic, have offered the following explanation of arctic haze origin. Very long range, episodic transport of air masses over several thousand kilometers clearly affects the quality of arctic air during both summer and winter. Polluted air masses, carrying a mixture of anthropogenic and natural pollutants from a variety of sources in different geographical areas have been identified in the arctic atmosphere at altitudes from 2 to 4 or 5 km. The layers of polluted air at altitudes below 2.5 km can be traced to episodic transport of air masses from anthropogenic sources situated closer to the Arctic. Pollution material in arctic haze is of submicron size and contains a substantial fraction of black carbon: it interacts strongly with solar radiation. In addition, sulfate and a wide range of heavy metals appear, affecting their natural geochemical cycles. They also serve as indicators of major source regions of emissions in the world. This paper discusses what happens to the haze-related pollutants in the Arctic, what is the contribution of natural sources to the arctic haze and what are local and global effects of arctic haze. Some indications are given of the research to be undertaken in a view to assess the role of the Arctic in global change of the environment.