Horizon 2020 iCHANGE project
Techne Consulting is a partner of the iCHANGE project (individual Change of Habits Needed for Green European transition), funded by the European Community in the framework of Horizon 2020 with about € 5 million, started on November 2021 and with duration 42 months.
The I-CHANGE project deals with the challenge of engaging and promoting the active participation of citizens to address climate change, sustainable development and environmental protection in the framework of the European Green Deal, the European Climate Pact and the European Biodiversity Strategy for 2030. The overall concept is based on the idea that citizens and civil society have a central role in the definition of environmental protection and climate action and their direct involvement is essential to drive a true shift and promotion of changes of behaviors towards more sustainable patterns.
The project follows the Innovation actions type of funding scheme and addresses the Topic LC-GD-10-3-2020 "Enabling citizens to act on climate change, for sustainable development and environmental protection through education, citizen science, observation initiatives, and civic engagement”. The project is one of six projects selected from 204 proposed.
GEIA 20th Conference
GEIA 20th Conference <was held on 2023 June 21-2, hosted by Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy in Bruxelles (Belgium) The GEIA: Global Emissions InitiAtive is a community effort dedicated to emissions information exchange and competence building, created in 1990 to improve our understanding of air quality and climate. About 160 experts from all the world attended the conference.Our Technical Director Carlo Trozzi presented a poster on Integrated evaluation of air pollutants and greenhouse gases emissions in the framework of the I-CHANGE Living Labs experiences.
Task Force on Emissions Inventories and Projections 2023
The 2023 annual meeting of TFEIP, the Task Force on Emission Inventories and Projections of the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution took place in Oxford, UK on 18th - 20th April. The meeting was held in a hybrid format meaning that participants could join online or in person at St Anne's College, Oxford. Over 100 experts attended. Our Technical Director Carlo Trozzi chaired the Combustion & Industry Expert Panel of which he is co-leader and presented Preliminary results of the Horizon iCHANGE project at Projection Expert Panel.
Two workshops on the containment of atmospheric emissions from biomass combustion
The work of Techne Consulting, for Sogesid SpA and the Ministry of Ecological Transition, as part of the CReIAMOPA project, about the analysis and implementation of 7 particularly important case studies in the development and dissemination of procedure for the containment of atmospheric emissions deriving from the combustion of biomass for civil use was presented in Milan on 5 October and in Rome on 27 October::
- CS1 International experiences in the management of the biomass combustion phenomenon
- CS2 Incentive sources for biomass fueled civil heating systems
- CS3 Regional cadastres of thermal plants with reference to biomass combustion
- CS4 Legal and technical regulations on biomass-fueled thermal plants
- CS5 Classification of biomass fueled civil heating systems
- CS6 Emission limits in real conditions of biomass fueled civil heating systems
- CS7 Burning of agricultural residues
Expert Panel for Polluting Emissions Reduction 2022
The meeting of the Expert Panel for Polluting Emissions Reduction was held in Naples on 24 and 25 November, with the aim of illustrating the knowledge and models on polluting emissions along the life cycle of vehicles and fuels, the actions and technologies for reduce them and funding opportunities for research and innovation projects in this broad sector.
The 2022 edition had as its main theme the "electric" revolution underway in the transport sector and its implications for the reduction of air pollution and its impacts on human health.
Our technical director Carlo Trozzi presented a work on Il contributo dei trasporti nel risanamento della qualità dell'aria: casi studio regionali.