加拿大全国污染物排放清单作为抑制大气工业排放的政策工具的有效性

T. Walker
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为了遏制温室气体排放和降低加拿大大气中有毒物质的浓度,许多环境立法都以减少工业排放为目标。传统的监管规定通过罚款来阻止工业污染,但在过去二十年中,引入了其他形式的环境监管,如国家污染物排放清单(NPRI)。NPRI是一种信息管理工具,它要求各行业根据联邦机构加拿大环境与气候变化局(Environment and Climate Change Canada)制定的一套指导方针自行报告排放数据。该工具旨在向公众提供有关工业排放的信息,并提供一个大型数据库,供研究人员和监管机构分析,以了解加拿大的排放趋势。这些工具在其他司法管辖区(例如美国和澳大利亚)取得了一些成功。然而,一些评估美国有毒物质释放清单的研究表明,在数据的自我报告性质和低报发生率方面存在根本性的弱点。这项初步研究旨在探索加拿大的NPRI,并测试其对国家空气污染物监测网(nap)的有效性,nap是由联邦政府管理的空气质量监测计划。虽然未发现漏报的情况,但他们的研究发现了NPRI工具的薄弱环节,以及加拿大各工业部门排放增加的情况。
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Effectiveness of the national pollutant release inventory as a policy tool to curb atmospheric industrial emissions in Canada
To curb greenhouse gas emissions and reduce concentrations of toxic substances in Canada’s atmosphere, many pieces of environment legislation are targeted at reducing industrial emissions. Traditional regulation prescribes penalties through fines to discourage industries from polluting, but in the past two decades, alternative forms of environmental regulation like the National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI) have been introduced. NPRI is an information management tool which requires industries to self-report emissions data based on a set of guidelines determined by Environment and Climate Change Canada, a federal agency. The tool works to inform the public regarding industry emissions and provides a large database that can be analyzed by researchers and regulators to inform emissions trends in Canada. These tools have seen some success in other jurisdictions (e.g., United States and Australia). However, some research assessing the U.S Toxic Release Inventory suggests there are fundamental weaknesses in the self-reported nature of the data, and incidences of under-reporting. This preliminary study aimed to explore NPRI in Canada and test its effectiveness against the National Air Pollutant Surveillance Network (NAPS), an air quality monitoring program administered by the federal government. While instances of under-reporting were undetected, their study identified areas of weakness in the NPRI tool and instances of increasing emissions across various industrial sectors in Canada.
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