Guidance

Air quality: abatement cost guidance

This guidance provides an overview of the abatement cost methodology which is designed to value changes in air quality.

From:
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Published
10 May 2013

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This guidance has been replaced. See current guidance on assessing the impact of air quality.

Documents

Abatement cost guidance for valuing changes in air quality

Ref: PB13912

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It describes the abatement cost valuation process and highlights sources of further information, building on the principles set out in Air Quality Appraisal – Valuing Environmental Limits.

This methodology has been developed by Defra with support from the Interdepartmental Group on Costs and Benefits (IGCB), a Defra-led group of government analysts that provides advice relating to the quantification and valuation of local environmental impacts.

Published 10 May 2013

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