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.
35 years of Techne Consulting
November 6, 2021 Techne Consulting celebrated 35 years of consulting and software development in the fields of environment and energy. In these 35 years we have worked with leading energy and environmental Italian institutions (Ministry of Environment, Regions, National and Regional Environmental Protection Agencies) and with research institutions (ENEA, CNR, ISPRA, universities, etc.), We participated in the most important international working groups on air pollution (from CORINAIR 85 project), we have published many original scientific papers that have often anticipated the problems that would emerge in subsequent years. Among other things we have been pioneers in stressing the importance of an integrated approach to energy and air quality planning indicating the possible negative influences on air quality of the combustion of solid biomass. We also developed the first model of assessment of pollutant emissions from ships in the specific Transport programme under 4th Research and Technology Development Framework Programme of the European Commission.
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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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 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