How additional actions in the road transport sector could improve air quality in Europe — an extension of the Concawe urban air quality studies (Concawe Review 31.1)

Jul 15, 2022

This article presents results from a modelling study carried out to examine how concentrations of the major urban pollutants (i.e. nitrogen dioxide (NO2), particulate matter (PM) and ozone (O₃)) would vary under different emission reduction scenarios, and to assess...

Impacts of low carbon technologies on environmental parameters: air/water/waste

Mar 3, 2022

Report no. 3/22: Concawe’s Low Carbon Pathways (LCP) programme aims to identify opportunities and challenges for different low-carbon technologies and feedstocks to achieve a significant reduction of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions associated with both the...

Literature review of Particulate Matter (PM) from transport with a special focus on organic aerosols

Feb 23, 2022

Report no. 2/22: Several recent scientific studies on urban air quality have suggested that air quality modelling based on current emission inventories for mobile sources systematically underestimates the contribution of these sources to ambient particulate matter...

How Covid-19 lockdown affected air pollution in Europe — a multi-city analysis (Concawe Review 30.1)

Jun 25, 2021

Concawe has undertaken a city-level analysis to quantify the ways in which the Covid-19 lockdown measures have had an impact on air quality in Europe. This article presents the results of the analysis for particulate matter (PM2.5), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and ozone...

Understanding the process of setting air quality limit values and the associated compliance challenge—the ozone study (Concawe Review 30.1)

Jun 25, 2021

The European Commission is proposing to revise air quality standards to align them more closely with the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. This article focuses on O₃, and assesses how current and projected compliance trends will change under the current EU...