Transcript ETC-ACC Presentation - European Topic Centre for Air Pollution

The European Topic Centre on Air and Climate
Change
By Keimpe Wieringa (ETC/ACC Manager)
Joint UNECE TFEIP and EIONET
Geneva, 9th May 2001
ETC/ACC: general information
Established April 2001 for three years
Lead organisation: RIVM, the Netherlands
Around 10 -15 man year/year
Successor of two ETCs: Air Emissions and Air
Quality
Focus on Air Pollution and Climate Change
ETC/ACC: A truly European consortium
Lead organisation: National Institute of
Public Health and Environment (RIVM)
12 Partners:
UBA- Berlin, Germany
IIASA, Austria
NILU, Norway
UBA- Vienna, Austria
AEAT, United Kingdom
AUT, Greece
CHMI, Czech Republic
ICCS-NTUA, Greece
DNMI, Norway
SHMU, Slovakia
TNO-MEP, The Netherlands
Öko-Institute, Germany
ETC/ACC: Broadening of Scope
Air Emissions and Air Quality (monitoring)
Climate Change (full DPSIR chain)
Integrated assessment: support air pollution and
climate change policies
Geographical extension of EU area
ETC/ACC: Vision and Priorities
Partnership with countries and stakeholders
Consolidate monitoring work
Support Air Pollution and Climate Change Policies
Enhance linkages between air emissions and air
quality
Explore cross-benefits between Climate Change
and Air Pollution policies
Synergies of AP and CC: an example
Emission reduction in 2010 compared to the Baseline in 2010
50%
45%
other policies
Kyoto Prot., no emission trading
40%
35%
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
CO2
SO2
NOx
PM10
Metals
PAHs
Dioxins
ETC/ACC Work Plan 2001: Air Pollution
Reports on Air Emission and Air Quality (to be
merged in 2002)
Core set of policy-relevant indicators
Support data reporting and information access
and help remove duplication
Support CAFE Programme
ETC/ACC Work Plan 2001:Climate Change
Core set of policy-relevant indicators
Reports on Climate Change and GHG trends
GHG inventory
Comparison EU and MS GHG projections
ETC/ACC Work Plan 2001:common
Contributions to EEA main reports (2004 Outlook
report, Environmental Signals/Kiev, TERM, EER)
Support EIONET organisation (workshops, country
visits, ETC web site)
Main Priorities for EEA and its ETC/ACC for
the next 2-3 years
Interactive voting session
Streamlining international data collection
EEA/ETC should further streamline international
data collection, building on EIONET (both
organisational and telematics) although it is a long
process.
EEA/ETC should focus on further exchange of data
with Eurostat, EMEP and FCCC.
EEA/ETC should consolidate current inventory work
as the basis for a regular European system and start
preparations of upcoming reporting requirements
(focusing on the Kyoto Protocol, the EPER and the
NECD).
Support to member countries (1)
Current software tools ( CollectER, ReportER and
COPERT III) should be further developed by
EEA/ETC in co-operation with the European
Commission (DG Environment) and UNECE/EMEP.
EEA/ETC should provide additional support to the
new Accession Countries (eg, organising training
sessions, country visits) and less support to the
existing EEA18 countries.
Support to member countries (2)
EEA/ETC should support member countries on
compilation and reporting of emission projections,
as most countries are not reporting on this issue.
CIAM projection estimates could be used as
starting point.
Review and Verification
EEA/ETC should perform reviews of national
inventories, before these are officially submitted, in
order to increase quality of national emission data.
These reviews should have an added value in
comparison with FCCC and EMEP reviews.
EEA/ETC should co-operate with EMEP and JRC in
the comparison of the air emission inventories with
the (measured) air quality data, through air quality
models.
Use of air emissions data
National emission inventory data should be more
disseminated at both national and European (EEA)
level (data warehouse, web site).
The EEA/ETC should produce more reports on
progress of environmental policies at EU and
national level on progress towards targets and
explain the policy successes and failures (in the
main EEA assessment reports and in other EEA
reports).
National emissions data should be used more for
support to EU policy frameworks (ECCP and CAFE).
Collaboration with integrated assessment modellers
should be enhanced.