Policy paper

Air quality in the UK: plan to reduce nitrogen dioxide emissions (2015)

How we plan to improve air quality by reducing nitrogen dioxide in our towns and cities.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 17 December 2015
• Last updated: 18 January 2016 — See all updates

This was published under the 2015 to 2016 Cameron Conservative government

This publication was withdrawn on 26 July 2017

This information is now out of date. The government published its Air quality plan for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in UK on 26 July 2017.

Documents

UK overview document

PDF, 2.13 MB, 70 pages

Technical report

PDF, 1.81 MB, 117 pages

List of UK and national measures

PDF, 559 KB, 62 pages

Details

These documents set out the UK’s air quality plan. It will meet our goals of improving the UK’s air quality and public health. The plan fulfils our legal obligations to achieve nitrogen dioxide limit values in the EU Ambient Air Quality Directive (2008/50/EC) in the shortest possible time.

The overview document summarises the policy background and sets out our comprehensive approach to meeting those goals.

The list of UK and national measures identifies the measures that are helping us to meet the limits. This list of measures should be read alongside the individual zone plans for the 38 air quality zones still to meet the nitrogen dioxide limits.

The technical report details the modelling and assessment methodology used for the UK’s air quality plan.

Published 17 December 2015
Last updated 18 January 2016 + show all updates

1. 18 January 2016

   Technical report replaced, fixing a broken link and updating the PM emissions factors in table D5 (on page 100).

2. 17 December 2015

   We've updated the technical report following some mechanical problems with the original version.

3. 17 December 2015

   First published.