Transcript Main objectives for ETC Air and Climate Change

Background EEA
• A European Union institution
• Established by EU Regulation
• Staff: about 80
• Budget: ca. 20 Meuro
• Seat: Copenhagen
EEA home page: www.eea.eu.int
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The EEA mission
“Through the provision of timely, targeted, relevant
and reliable information to policy making agents
and the public, the EEA aims to help achieve
significant and measurable improvement in
Europe’s environment”
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..serve the countries
and the Commission…
Policy development
Information
from EEA
Implementation, compliance
Countries
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Commission
EEA member and partner countries
EU Member States
+ Norway Iceland
Liechtenstein
+East Europe, Malta,
Cyprus
(members in 2001)
NIS
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Main EEA reports
• 1999 : Environment in the EU at the turn of the
century (State and Outlook/Scenarios)
• 2000 and 2001 : Environmental signals and
Transport and environment report (indicator
based reports)
• 2002 : Europe's Environment : third Assessment
(Kiev report)
• 2004 : next State and Outlook report
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EIONET
European Environmental Information and Observation Network
• National Focal Points
• National Reference Centres
• European Topic Centres (Air and climate
change; Water; Waste; Nature and Biodiversity;
Terrestrial Environment)
• Other institutes
The European Topic Centre on Air and Climate
Change (ETC/ACC)
• Established March 2001 for three years
• A truly European consortium
• Lead organization: RIVM, the Netherlands (colead UBA Germany)
• Around 8 manyear/year
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ETC Air and Climate Change consortium
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Institute of public health and environment (RIVM)
Netherlands (Lead)
Umweltbundesamt (UBA Berlin)
Germany
Umweltbundesamt (UBA Vienna)
Austria
Norwegian Air Research Centre (NILU)
Norway
EMEP Centres (CIAM/IIASA and MSCW/DNMI)
Technical University Athens (NTUA)
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUT)
Austria/Norway(Int)
Greece
TNO-MEP
Netherlands
AEA Technology
United Kingdom
Oeko-institute
Germany
Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute (SHMU)
Slovakia
Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (CHMI)
Czech Republic
Main objectives for
ETC Air and Climate Change
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1.
To contribute to EEA main reports through assessments on climate
change and air pollution (past trends, current state and outlooks);
2.
To implement data collection and information systems to deliver
indicators for EEA reports and policy support (EUROAIRNET,
AIRBASE, CORINAIR) and to work with countries, Commission and
international organisations to further streamline information gathering
and reporting procedures;
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To provide support to the EU policy and legislative frameworks CAFE
(and AQ Framework Dir) and ECCP (and GHG monitoring Mechanism)
and international conventions (CLRTAP and UNFCCC/IPCC);
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To support countries in their reporting to the Commission and
international organisations, and for inclusion in the ETC databases, by
providing guidance/guidebooks, tools and by organising workshops.
Main policy support activities
EU Legislation
EU European Climate Change Programme
EU GHG Monitoring Mechanism
CAFE programme
AQ Framework Directive
Daughter Directives, Ozone Directive
National Emission Ceilings (NEC) Directive
AQ Exchange of Information Decision
Large Combustion Plant (LCP) Directive and Solvents Dir.
Directive on ozone deleting substances and revisions
IPPC Directive and EPER Decision
Theme
CC
CC
AQ,TAP
AQ
AQ
AQ, TAP
AQ
AQ
Strat. O3
All
International conventions
UNFCCC
UNECE CLRTAP
CC
TAP
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ETC/ACC main products and services (1)
• Integrated assessment air pollution/climate change
and contribute to main EEA reports (Kiev
Report/Signals 2002, Energy and Environment 2001,
EU 2004 State and Outlook)
• Core set of indicators AP/CC, including policy
response indicators; study on CC impact indicators
• EIONET priority data flow progress reports, updates
of databases and data exchange modules/tools
(AIRBASE, CORINAIR, DEM AQ/AE)
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ETC/ACC main products and services (2)
• Support to EU Monitoring Mechanism (including
Kyoto requirements)
• Reports ‘EU and MS greenhouse gas emission
trends 1990-1999’ and 'Analysis and comparison of
national and EU projections of greenhouse
emissions’
• EU UNFCC Greenhouse Gas Inventory (also input to
the EU Third UNFCCC Communication)
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ETC/ACC main products and services (3)
• Support to the CAFE and related EU legislation
• Reports ‘Air Quality in Europe’ and 'Air Emission
Trends 1980-1999 in Europe'
• EU CLRTAP/NECD annual emission inventory
• Report on ozone in EU summer 2001
• Support to EU Pollutant Emission Register (IPPC)
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ETC/ACC main products and services (4)
• Joint UNECE Task Force and EIONET Workshop on
Emission Inventories and Projections (May 9-11)
• UNECE Task Force on Modelling/Measurement and
EIONET Workshop on Air Quality
Management/Assessment (29-30 May-1 June)
• Regular meetings Working Groups under EU GHG
Monitoring Mechanism ('inventories' and
'policies/projections')
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EEA/ETC Contributions to CAFE
• Support data flow and data access
• Produce air state and outlook reports and
develop indicators
• Review sectoral emission projections
• Explore air-CC cross-benefits
• Link urban air quality to wider assessment
framework
• Contribute to health impact studies
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Emissions of acidifying gases
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60%
Reduction 2010 compared to BL-2010
PM10
Acidification & Trop O3
50%
Climate change
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
CO2
SO2
NOx
VOC
P Index
PM10
HMs
PAHs
Diox/Fur
Spillover effects of climate change policies; acidification and tropospheric ozone
policies and primary PM10 measures in the accelerated policy scenario. Source:
RIVM (2000)
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Exceedance of the EU human health threshold
value for ozone in urban areas in EEA18
Average number of exceedance days
O3: Average number of exceedance days in urban areas
(8h >110 ug/m3)
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30
25
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0
1990
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1991
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1999
Integrated Assessment
Economy & population
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energy
transport
P
CO2
GHG
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SO2
NO2
regional
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industry
SO2
O3
PM10
agriculture
NOx
SO2
VOC
NO2
urban
tourism
NHx
O3
PM10
PM10
Emissions
Air quality
Essential conditions for success
• Cooperation with other international organizations
• Close interaction with stakeholders
• Well connected to sectors
• Involving accession countries
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