I-CHANGE research results at the EXPAPER meeting in Livorno

Recently Techne Consulting presented some results of iCHANGE project at the EXPAPER 2023 conference. EXPAPER is an annual conference that brings together a group of experts and representatives of companies, industrial trade associations, research bodies and universities that deal with the emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases from passenger and goods transport by road, sea and air at national and local level. Carlo Trozzi, technical director of Techne Consulting, partner of iCHANGE, made a presentation on "Carbon footprint and environmental footprint from road traffic in the living labs of the Horizon 2020 I-CHANGE project".  

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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.

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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.

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