Develop innovative and improved abatement technologies for air pollutant emissions and noise generation across all sectors and sources

Background

We need research to articulate the health and environmental costs and benefits of complex policy interventions that influence air and soundscape quality. This includes the environmental impacts and human health related ones.

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