The rapporteur has also mentioned other effects of acidifying emissions, the effects on health, for example.
Despite the increased energy consumption, there has been a dramatic fall in emissions of acidifying substances.
Work has already been commissioned on the effects of acidifying pollutants on forests, soils and natural vegetation.
Sweetening sugar beet is as much of a tradition in northern countries, as is acidifying wine in southern countries.
It is important to recognise the effect that acid rain, by acidifying surface waters, has on aluminium levels in drinking water.
Think, for example, of the emission of acidifying substances and dust particles in the production of electricity, among other things.
We have committed ourselves to further reductions of acidifying pollutants.
Examples include the control of waste disposal, including sewage sludge application to agricultural land and increasing controls on atmospheric emissions of heavy metals and acidifying materials.
