Emissions of persistent organic pollutants and eight candidate POPs from UNECE-Europe in 2000, 2010 and 2020 and the emission reduction resulting from the implementation of the UNECE POP protocol

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 41, Issue 40, 2007, Pages 9245-9261

  Denier van der Gon, Hugo ^a   van het Bolscher, Maarten ^a   Visschedijk, Antoon ^a   Zandveld, Peter ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Candidate POPs; Emission inventory; Emission projection; Europe; HCB; HCH; PAH indicator compounds; PCB; PCDD F

Indexed keywords

HEXACHLOROBUTADIENE (HBU); PENTABROMODIPHENYL ETHER (PBDE); PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS (POP); POLYCHLORONATED NAFTALENES (PCN);

EUROPE; PARAFFINS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

ORGANIC POLLUTANTS;

DICOFOL; ETHER DERIVATIVE; HEXACHLOROBUTADIENE; PARAFFIN; PENTABROMODIPHENYL ETHER; PENTACHLOROBENZENE; PENTACHLOROPHENOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMISSION INVENTORY; HCH; HEXACHLOROBENZENE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PAH; PCB; PCDD; PCDF; UNITED NATIONS;

ARTICLE; EUROPE; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIC POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNECE PROTOCOL;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 36348972181     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.06.055     Document Type: Article

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