Improving Air Quality - Government of Canada

CLEAN AIR BACKGROUNDER
Work had been under way for a decade or more to improve air quality in Canada. However, as scientific evidence demonstrates that more and quicker action is necessary, the ten-year Clean Air Agenda was developed and launched in May 2000. It focuses on five key areas:
* reducing major industrial emission;
* reducing transboundary emission;
* reducing transportation sector emission;
* advancing the science; and,
* engaging the public.
Additional areas of air-related work not included in the Agenda, such as Acid Rain, are included in this backgrounder. Good progres…