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AMMONIA EMISSIONS
IN EUROPE
source: www.acidrain.org/AE/AE_
chp5.htm
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Between 1990 and 2000, ammonia emissions in Europe fell by 25% – from 7.5 to 5.6 million tonnes/year.- 90% come from agriculture and they are highest where livestock farming is most intensive.
Biggest European emittersthousand tons a year) *| | 1990 | 2000 | | France | 779 | 784 | | Germany | 736 | 596 | | Italy | 466 | 437 |
* Source: Cooperative Programme for Monitoring and Evaluation of the Long-Range Transmission of Air pollutants in Europe (EMEP), 2001.
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