CEM, the International Conference on Emissions Monitoring, has grown in strength and popularity since its inaugural meeting in 1997. CEM 2009 has continued this position as the major international conference and exhibition specifically designed to cover the subject of source emissions monitoring in its entirety.
The current calm in the pollution monitoring industry belies the challenges ahead. Requirements for reducing the emissions of air pollution have been evolving since middle of the 20th century and are currently a complex medley of limits, targets and caps.
Sources must not only comply with rigid emission limits but must also provide emissions data to a number of different agencies and bodies to comply with the different legislative formats and reporting systems at the regional, national and international level.
The international community is currently working to improve the coordination between monitoring systems and the legislation they support - for example, the EU aims to improve the alignment between the Large Combustion Plant Directive and the Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Directive. But what will these and other changes in emission legislation mean for the pollution monitoring industry?