2021 UNECE Task Force on Emission Inventories and Projections
The Task Force on Emission Inventories and Projections, in the frame of UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution, held its annual meeting jointly with the EEA’s EIONET network on 4-6th May 2021. The meeting was held remotely due to restrictions in place in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The 34th meeting of the Task Force was kindly hosted by the Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute. The meeting was well attended with attendance peaking at over 200 people, from approximately 40 countries. The TFEIP supports Parties in the reporting of official air pollutant emissions and projections data to the Convention. It also provides a technical forum and expert network to identify emission factors, establish methodologies for the estimation of emissions, and identify problems related to data reporting. The technical sessions took place not in parallel, allowing for participants to join all available sessions. At the meeting our Technical Director co-chaired the Combustion & Industry Expert Panel and gave a short communication about Biodiesel and biogas use in energy industries
Expert Panel on Clean Air in Cities (EP-CAC)
The 2° meeting of the Expert Panel on Clean Air in Cities (EP-CAC), in the frame of UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution) was held remotely on 29 September 2020 due to restrictions in place in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Expert Panel works under the auspices of the UNECE Task Force on Integrated Assessment Modelling. The mission of the Expert Panel on Clean Air in Cities is to analyse and communicate the potential benefits of multi-scale air quality management and find an optimal mix of local, national and international policy actions. In the frame of the Panel our Technical Director was co-author of the presentation on The Main Lesson and the next steps of the ClairCity project project realized in the frame of EuropeanUnion’s EU_H2020 research and innovation programme.
Horizon 2020 CLAiR-City project
Techne Consulting is a partner of the Clair-City project (Citizen Led Air pollution Reduction in Cities), funded by the European Community in the framework of Horizon 2020 with over € 6.5 million, started on may 2016 and with duration 48 months. It is conducted by a consortium of universities (University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom; Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark), research centers (Norsk Institutt for Luftforskning NILU, Norway), government agencies (Ministerie van Infrastrutture en Milieu, Netherlands, Centraal Bureau voor de Statistic, Netherlands), international organizations (Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe, Hungary) and SMEs (Trinomics, Netherlands, Techne Consulting, Italy, Transport & Mobility Leven, Belgium).
The project follows the Research and Innovation actions type of funding scheme and addresses the Topic SC5-04-2015 - “Improving the Air Quality and Reducing the Carbon Footprint of European Cities”.
CLAiR-City will apportion air pollution emissions and concentrations, carbon footprints and health outcomes by city citizens’ behaviour and day-to-day activities in order to make these challenges relevant to how people chose to live, behave and interact within their city environment. Through an innovative engagement and quantification toolkit, we will stimulate the public engagement necessary to allow citizens to define a range of future city scenarios for reducing their emissions to be used for supporting and informing the development of bespoke city policy packages out to 2050.
Our history: Haven ship accident information system
Thirty years have passed since the explosion on 11 April 1991 aboard the oil tanker Haven in front of Genoa Voltri. The outbreak causes 5 deaths, 30 injuries and the largest ecological disaster in the Mediterranean. Over 140 thousand tons of crude oil catch fire, the oily mass pours along the western coast and the Haven sinks a few miles off the coast of Arenzano. Techne Consulting created a few months later for ENEA and the Ministry of the Environment an information system relating to the environmental damage resulting from the accident on the Haven ship which collected all the data and maps of the accident and the environmental monitoring campaigns carried out in the area.
CLAiR-City: Genova City day
On October 25th, 2019 in Genoa, within the framework of the Science Festival, took place the city day of the European project Clair-City (Citizen Led Air pollution Reduction in Cities), funded by the European community under Horizon 2020 and led by a consortium of universities, research centers, public bodies, international organizations and companies (including Techne Consulting).
During the event, the Deputy Director of the Environment Directorate of Liguria and the councilor for the environment described the situation in Liguria and the technical director of Techne Consulting carried out a presentation of the project and the results obtained so far in involving citizens and stakeholders.
The best short films made by the citizens on sustainable mobility and the winner of the school competition "My city, my school, my home", both promoted within the project, were also awarded.