Campania Region of Italy - Update of air quality plan
The Regional Council of the Campania Region adopted in the session of 28 September, with resolution no. 412, the update of the Plan for the Protection of Air Quality after the favorable opinion on the V.A.S. and on the V.I. issued on 3 August 2021. The update of the Plan was proposed by the General Management - Soil Defense and the Ecosystem and was drawn up with the support of Techne Consulting as part of the assignment for "Technical support for the drafting of the Protection Plan of Air Quality ". The measures of the Plan incorporate and expand those established in the Ministry of the Environment (now MiTe) / Campania Region Agreement signed on 11 February 2021 and enter into force from the date of approval.
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.
Task Force on Integrated Assessment Modelling 2022
The 51st session of TFIAM, the Task Force on Integrated Assessment Modelling of the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution was held online from the 6th to the 8th of April 2022. At most 100 experts participated simultaneously. Our Technical director Carlo Trozzi presented the regional air quality plan of Campania Region in Italy. The region currently often has NO2, PM10 and ozone concentrations higher than air quality limit values, which required the development of an air quality plan. Based on emission inventories, air quality modelling and emission and emission abatement scenarios, future emissions and concentrations has been analysed. The strategic environmental assessment has been completed and the plan was adopted by Regional Council.
Abruzzo Region of Italy - Update of air quality plan
On 13 January 2022, the Regional Council of the Abruzzo Region adopted the provision aimed at updating the Air Quality Regional Plan which has, among its main purposes, the identification of "quality objectives of the air aimed at avoiding, preventing or reducing harmful effects on human health "and at maintaining the quality of the ambient air, where good, and improving it in other cases. The update of the Air Quality Regional Plan, which will replace the previous Plan, contains plans and measures aimed at avoiding exceeding the limit values and limit levels, reducing the risk of exceeding the limit values, objective and alarm thresholds in the areas where the risk of exceeding the alarm threshold arises, to limit the duration of any episodes of exceeding, with the relative provision of interventions to be implemented in the short term to achieve these purposes. The Plan was drawn up with the support of Techne Consulting srl as part of the assignment of the Abruzzo Region for "Updating the Regional Plan for the Protection of Air Quality"
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.