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 34^th 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

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.

Harmonisation within Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for Regulatory Purposes

Some results of Techne Consulting work on air quality modelling for air quality management have been presented at beginning of June 2019 to the 19th International Conference on Harmonisation within Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling for Regulatory Purposes in Bruges (Belgium).

The wok "Regional and local air quality modelling in different scenarios for EU directives application: Italy case studies" has been presented by our technical director and defines a first balance of the work in air quality modelling in the frame of air quality planning.

In the same occasion a poster on work of the ClairCity partner was presented.

EMEP/EEA air pollutant emission inventory guidebook - 2019

On October, 17, a new 2019 Updated Air Pollutant Emission Inventory Guidebook version is published by EEA and EMEP. The joint EMEP/EEA air pollutant emission inventory guidebook supports the reporting of emissions data under the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP) and the EU National Emission Ceilings Directive. It provides expert guidance on how to compile an atmospheric emissions inventory. The Guidebook is published by the EEA with the CLRTAP Task Force on Emission Inventories and Projections (TFEIP) responsible for the technical content of the chapters. Our Technical Director as co-leader of TFEIP Combustion and industry expert panel is the coordinator of several chapters of the Guidebook.