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Breath: the Source of Life
“Air Quality Modelling Applications”

• Regulation on the Control of Exhaust Gas Emission
• Regulation on the Reduction of the Sulphur Content in Certain Types
of Fuel
• Regulation on the Control of Volatile Organic Compound Emissions
from the Storage and Distribution of Petrol and Naphtha
• Circular on Air Quality Assessment and Management
• Circular on Imported Solid Fuels
• Applications for the Control of Air Pollution
Besides the applicable regulations listed above, the Ministry of Environment,
Urbanisation and Climate Change did and still continues to perform national
and international projects in order to draw up roadmaps for “Net Zero
Emission” strategies which gained momentum with the European Green
Deal as well as the transition process required by the directives on clean air,
national emission top values, industrial emissions, large incinerators, volatile
organic emissions.
In order to establish a relationship between the sources of air quality and
the reasons for its change, it is required to record numerical information of
air emissions electronically, to archive and to update them in line with certain
formats, to make sure that the emission inventory created in this way complies
with certain rules based on scientific calculations.
The National Air Pollutant Emission Inventory is calculated annually by
the Ministry of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change and regularly
reported to the CLRTAP secretariat. The reports are published and announced
on the website of the UN Economic Commission for Europe-EEC Secretariat,
the Center for Emission Inventory and Projections of the Convention (CEIP,
2024), together with the Central Database of the European Environment
Agency and within the framework of the National Data Publishing Calendar
under the Official Statistical Program of TURKSTAT.
The National Air Pollutant Emission Inventory is used directly under the
title “indirect greenhouse gases” of the greenhouse gas emission inventory
prepared in accordance with our obligations of the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change.
Air pollutants emission inventory report has been awarded twice in the titles
of “Best Improved Inventory Reporting“ in 2013 and ”Significant Inventory
Report Improvements” in 2015.
The National Air Pollutants Emission Inventory Informative Report includes the
acceptance criteria on the basis for the emission inventory, activity data, emission
factors and the total information of air pollutants by sectors and years (IIR,2021).
Figure-1 shows the time series of national air pollutant emissions in total.

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