2016 joint progress report on policy-relevant scientific findings

The present report was drafted by the Extended Bureau of the Working Group on Effects and the Extended Bureau of the Steering Body to the Cooperative Programme for Monitoring and Evaluation of the Long-range Transmission of Air Pollutants in Europe (EMEP) in cooperation with the secretariat to the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution. The review of recent scientific findings is based on the information provided by the lead countries and the International Cooperative Programme programme centres, and is submitted in accordance with the 2016–2017 workplan for the implementation of the Convention ECE/EB.AIR/133/Add.1) as well as the informal document approved by the Executive Body for the Convention at its thirty-fourth session, “Basic and multi-year activities in the 2016–2017 period".