Transcript Introducing the work of ETC/ACC - European Topic Centre for Air

ETC/ACC
Subgroup Climate Change
Task Team: 2.1b
(CC State and Impact Indicators)
Thomas Voigt (UBA Berlin)
EEA Workshop
Climate Change State and Impact Indicators
Copenhagen 22/23 Nov. 2001
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European Environment Agency
(EEA)
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European Topic Centre on Water (ETC/WTR)-UK
European Topic Centre on Terr. Env. (ETC/TE)-E
Eur.Topic Cent. on Nat.Prot.+Biodiv. (ETC/NPB)-F
Eur.Topic Cent. on Waste +Mat. Flow (ETC/WMF)-Dk
Eur.Topic Cent. on Air+ Climate Change (ETC/ACC)-NL
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ETC/ACC: Vision and Priorities
 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
ETC Air and Climate Change
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
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ETC/ACC (RIVM-NL)
 Sub-Group Air-Quality (RIVM-Bilthoven
 Sub-Group Air-Emission (UBA-Wien)
 Sub-Group Climate Change (UBA-Berlin)
 Indicator-Team:
(T. Voigt-UBA B; J.v. Minnen-RIVM; M. Erhard-PIK)
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Why Indicators ?
 To reflect the trend in Climate Change and its
impacts on different sectors
 To assist the policy process by highlighting
these trends and underlying where adaptation
and mitigation measures are required
 To show politics effectiveness
 To support the process of Integrated
Environment Assessment
 To raise public awareness to the problems of
global change and its impacts
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Climate Change
State and Impact Indicators
 CC State Indicators:
Give a quantitative and qualitative
description of the actual changes occuring
in the climate (e.g. temperature, precipitation)
 CC Impact Indicators:
Describe the impacts of climate change on
ecological, social and economic functions
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Objectives
of the TaskTeam CC Indicators
 Identification of a Core Set of Climate
Change State and Impact Indicators
(Dec.2001)
 Feasibility Study for a Report on
Climate Change State and Impact
Indicators in Europe (Dec.2001)
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Sources
 Reports (e.g. IPCC, ACACIA,
UK CIP, UNEP-Rep.1994)
 Expert interviews/visits
 Expert survey (questionnaires)
59 replies = 17%; 5 nfp-replies
 Contacts to other ETC`s of the EEA
(ETC/NPB; ETC/TE; ETC/WTR)
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Sectors
1. Climate and Atmosphere
2. Cryosphere
3. Soils and Land Resources
4. Agriculture and Forestry
5. Ecosystems and Biodiversity
6. Hydrology and Water Resources
7. Marine Environment and Coastal Zones
8. Economy and Infrastructure
9. Human Health
Jelle
Markus
Thomas
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Criteria for Indicators
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Accessible (attractivity to the eye) ?
Correct to interpret ?
Representative (issue, area) ?
Regularely updated ?
Reference values ?
International comparible ?
Scientifically well done ?
Consensus on data validity / methods ?
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Additional
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Appropriate data sets (length of time series)?
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Appropriate level of sensitivity to CC
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(Related to policy process)
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(Applicable in assessments)
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Indicator evaluation
A) Core set indicator, available in the short term
B) Core set indicator, suitable on medium term
C) Core set indicator, suitable on long term
D) Potentially suitable core set (additional analysis needed)
E) Unclear/soft indicator (affected by many other factors/
data not sufficient)
F) Not suitable as indicator
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Next steps
– Workshop Report
: Dec. 01
– Technical Report/Feasibility Study: Febr.02
(Potential) Activities in 2002
- Update of the Core Set of Climate Change
State and Impact Indicators (to be discussed)
- Preparation of a Report about
Climate Change State and Impact Indicators
in Europe
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