• to invite stakeholders (international organizations, donors and non-governmental organizations to support actions that improve air quality, in particular capacity- building and technical assistance actions; and
• to invite Governments to voluntarily commit to implementing specific actions and to share their successes and further challenges at future meetings of the ECE Committee on Environmental Policy.
Public transport in Milan Credit: Shutterstock/Leonid Andronov; Alexandre Rotenberg
• to inspire action on air pollution issues that are not currently being addressed;
• to aid the further implementation of the commitments under the ECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution and its protocols;
Relevant data and indicators: Centre on Emission Inventories and Projections (CEIP) for comprehensive and up-to-date information about national emission inventories of air pollutants for Europe (including South and Eastern Europe); UNEP Live information on air quality and health; EEA on air pollution.