Unit: tonne
Source of data: Statistics Poland / Chief Inspectorate of Environmental Protection / Ministry of Climate and Environment
Information about indicator
Name of the indicator
13.C.3 Emissions of air pollutants-gases from plants especially noxious to air purity per 1 km²
Sustainable Development Goal
Goal 13. Climate action
Priority
Strengthening the role of adaptation to climate change as a means of combating climate change equivalent to mitigation
Definition
Total mass of gaseous pollutants from particularly arduous plants emitted in the surveyed year per 1 km² of surface area.
Unit
tonne
Available dimensions
total
Methodological explanations
Plants particularly burdensome for air cleanliness are so-called point sources of pollutant emissions, which include all organizational units determined by the then Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources on the basis of a certain amount of fees paid in 1986 for the annual emission of air pollutants at the rates specified in the Regulation of the Council of Ministers of 13 January 1986 on fees for the economic use of the environment and introducing changes thereto (Journal of Laws No. Journal of Laws No 7, item 40 as amended). The set of reporting entities (establishments) established in this way is maintained annually, which, among other things, ensures continuity and comparability of audit results. This grouping may be increased only in special cases, e.g. by units newly launched or extended with a high threshold scale of pollutant emissions.
Emission of gaseous pollutants – the release into the atmosphere of gaseous substances the concentration of which exceeds the average content of these substances in clean air, adversely affecting human health and the state and quality of the environment.
Source of data
Statistics Poland / Chief Inspectorate of Environmental Protection / Ministry of Climate and Environment
