NARSTO
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Currently NARSTO is in the midst of conducting an assessment of the technical challenges of implementing accountability within a multi-pollutant air-quality management framework. Accountability is the process of evaluating the effectiveness of air-quality management actions in terms of their success in achieving air quality management goals. NARSTO has assembled expert panels from the health and ecosystem communities to meet with the atmospheric scientists to assess the state of the science with respect to accountability questions and to determine the information needed to address them. The assessment report is scheduled to be completed by January 2009.
NARSTO is a public / private partnership dedicated to improving management of air quality in North America. It was established on February 13, 1995 when representatives of Canada, the United States, and Mexico signed the NARSTO Charter in a ceremony at the White House.
Since its founding, NARSTO has completed three major scientific Assessments of critical air quality management issues. NARSTO maintains the Quality Systems Science Center and the NARSTO Data Archive for storing data from NARSTO Affiliated Research Activities and making these data available to the scientific com munity.
NARSTO also facilitates activities, such as the Reactivity Research Working Group, which provide critical reviews of the state of the science in areas of interest to air quality policy makers. Currently, NARSTO will be working to improve collaboration between the air-quality and health-sciences research communities, to advance understanding of the scientific issues involved in effecting a multi-pollutant/multi-media approach to air quality management, and to increase understanding of the linkages between air quality and climate change.
Technical Symposium
ECMGCA
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