EURO-ECO 2007 Hanover 4 - 5 December 2007	Environmental and Engineering Aspects for sustainable living
	European Academy of Natural Sciences, Hanover European Scientific Society, Hanover Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Moscow

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Moscow is a big megapolice with a developed industrial complex (more than 1 thousand objects of heat and thermal power stations and 10 thousand industrial enterprises) and a wide network of automobile highways (more than 3 mln vehicles).

In the structure of hazardous emission into atmospheric air a predominated place is taken by automobile exhaust. The emissions from industry account for 9% of the total volume of the atmospheric emissions.

According to the monitoring data of atmospheric air in the city of Moscow (carried out on 22 hazardous substances regularly for 24-hours at 30 automatic stations) top pollutants in regard to health are nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, formaldehyde and bensol.

In Moscow a complex approach on reduction of air pollution is conducted, which combines direct measures on decreasing emissions of major toxicants from different sources, target measures in particularly problematic zones and improvement of legal mechanisms of air quality management.

In order to reduce exhaust emissions all over the city Moscow government implements measures on switching to fuels with improved ecological features (since 2006 ecological standards on quality of fuels in compliance with standards Euro-3 were introduced in Moscow as well as constant supervision over adherence to them, the infrastructure of tanking services is being developed) and the municipal transportation is being upgraded in conjunction with standards Euro-3.

At the highways with heaviest traffic modern technologies of traffic management are set up (including automatic switching of traffic lights depending on density of transport flows according to sensor data) alongside with informational support of drivers. On certain “problematic” territories truck bypass is limited.

Regarding heat power stations in terms of accumulated electricity and heat consumption the main task is reduction of emissions per unit of fuel burned. Therefore modernization of heat and electrical stations is taking place based on technologies, which prevent outcome of nitrogen oxides (including multilevel burning), recirculation of smoke gases, automatic regulation of heat release and others.

In 2007 a special complex of measures was developed aimed at decreasing air pollution by particulate matter including elaboration of the normative act on concentration of the most dangerous air pollutant – PM10.

One of the priority directions is to improve legal mechanisms for implementing such governmental functions as ecological control and environmental monitoring. Therefore adoption of the law «On ecological monitoring in the city of Moscow» by the Moscow city enabled to raise the efficiency of detecting illegal emissions of toxic substances due to automatic systems of direct instrumental measurements of the industrial emissions at the actual spots.