Sustainable Development and Planning 2024
The Technical Director of Techne Consulting, a partner in the ICHANGE project, presented a paper with some of the project’s results last week at the 13th International Conference on Sustainable Development and Planning held in Seville from 23 to 25 September 2024. At the conference was registered 81 people from all continents with different professional backgrounds who share an interest in sustainable planning.
The invited presentation first provided an overview of environmental footprints used to assess the impacts of human activities on the environment. The Horizon 2020 I-CHANGE project was then introduced, which addresses the challenge of engaging and promoting active citizen participation to address climate change, sustainable development and environmental protection. Finally, environmental footprint methodologies were applied based on the information collected by the Living Labs on daily activities, traffic simulation results and statistical data to calculate specific footprints in the base case and in the alternative scenarios for different Living Labs in the I-CHANGE project.
Task Force on Emissions Inventories and Projections 2024
The technical director of Techne Consulting, presented at TFEIF annual meeting in May, a work on Emissions of ships in Liguria ports: trend, COVID & NECA Area implementation.
Techne consulting E2Port model was applied for ships in port emissions estimates. The model uses Tier3 methodology, based on installed engine power and time spent in the different navigation phases in port (hotelling and manoeuvring) for each ships movement. Data on ships movements by ship were provided by port authorities and engine power was obtained from the E2Port database or, only where missing, from gross tonnage (GT) using GB power vs GT functions. The emissions are evaluated in 2021 and in future scenario for the years 2025 and 2030.
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has designated the North Sea and the Baltic Sea as NOx Emission Control Area (NECA) starting from January 1, 2021 onwards. The impact of a future extension to Mediterranean Sea of NECA is discussed.
I-CHANGE - Apportionment of carbon footprint and greenhouse gases
Recently Techne Consulting, with the collaboration of other partners of the I-CHANGE Horizon 2020 consortium, finalised the report “Apportionment of carbon footprint and greenhouse gases” as one result of the research activity Benchmarking behavioral change: apportionment of carbon and environmental footprint.
The report describes the methodologies applied to compute carbon footprint and short-lived climate forcers emissions using driving forces data gathered within I-CHANGE Living Labs activities and traffic numerical simulations.
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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.
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".
Read more: I-CHANGE research results at the EXPAPER meeting in Livorno