Inventory of emissions in air in France during the period 1990-1995

The emissions of principle pollutants in atmosphere tend towards reduction or stagnation for fifteen years. This evolution comes from sources of industry origin or bound to the energy production. Investments have been realized by industry sector to modify their proceeding in order to make them less polluting. In the field of energy the increasing part of nuclear power has allowed to reduce the emissions coming from fossil fuels. But the part of petroleum consumption has increased because of the increasing of road traffic. (N.C.)