Guidance document on reduction of emissions from agricultural residue burning

The current document contains the report on best available techniques and practices as adopted by the Executive Body at its forty-first session (Geneva, 6–8 December 2021). The main objective of the document is to support Parties in reducing their emissions of air pollutants and short-lived climate pollutants (in particular, black carbon) – drivers of climate change emitted as a result of agriculture residue burning, defined as all use of fire in agriculture as practised throughout the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) region on cultivated lands – and their negative impact on human health and environment. The document does not include in its scope wildland management fires, but comments in brief on best available practices (BAPs) and best available techniques (BATs) in connection with the necessary use of fire in both cultivated and wildland types. The guidance document includes descriptions of monitoring and characterization of agricultural residue burning and its emissions and practices and techniques to limit such emissions.