2013 joint progress report on the activities of the International Coordinated Programmes and the Joint Task Force on the Health Aspects of Air Pollution

At its twenty-seventh session in December 2009, the Executive Body for the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution decided that the Working Group on Effects would prepare an annual review of the activities and results of the International Cooperative Programmes (ICPs), the Joint Task Force on the Health Aspects of Air Pollution (Task Force on Health) and the Joint Expert Group on Dynamic Modelling (ECE/EB.AIR/99/Add.2, item 3.1). The present report was drafted by the Extended Bureau of the Working Group(comprising the Bureau of the Working Group; the Chairs of the ICP task forces, the Task Force on Health and the Joint Expert Group on Dynamic Modelling; representatives of the ICP programme centres; and invited experts) in cooperation with the secretariat. The review of activities is based on the information provided by the lead countries and the programme centres, and is submitted in accordance with the Convention’s 2012–2013 workplan (ECE/EB.AIR/109/Add.2, item 3.1 (b)).