Agenda
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Participation
Experts from Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the European Community (EC) participated in the meeting. Representatives from the Centre for Integrated Assessment Modelling (CIAM), the Chemical Coordinating Centre (CCC), the Meteorological Synthesizing Centre West of EMEP (MSC-W), the Coordinating Center for Effects (CCE), the European Environment Agency (EEA), Technical Support Unit of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as well as from EURELECTRIC, the International Union of air Pollution Protection Associations (IUAPPA), the Oil Companies' European Organization for Environmental and Health Protection (CONCAWE) and the World Conservation Union (IUCN), were also present. Mr. Rob MAAS (Netherlands) chaired the meeting.
Introduction
Progress in the framework of the Convention, secretariat presentation
Presentation by the European Commission on the Clean Air for Europe (CAFE) Programme
Presentation by the European Environment Agency (EEA) on its activities related to integrated assessment modelling
I. EMISSION PROJECTIONS AND TRENDS
Emission scenarios up to 2020, results from a study for the EEA, presented by Markus Amann (CIAM) http://www.iiasa.ac.at/~rains/tfiam.html
Determinants of changes of emissions 1960 - 2020, Henning Wuester
The new emission reporting guidelines, results of the discussion of the Task Force on Emission Inventories and Projections
II. MODELLING PARTICULATE MATTER POLLUTION
Report on the workshop on the potential of and cost for controlling fine particle emissions in Europe
A. Integrated assessment model developments
Progress of work at CIAM, presentation by Markus Amann (CIAM) http://www.iiasa.ac.at/~rains/tfiam.html
Progress of work at Imperial College, presentation by Rachel Warren (Imperial College London)
B. Further results on the assessment of health impacts
Workshop on the measurement and valuation of health impacts, conducted by the Network on Benefits and Economic Instruments (NEBEI), London, 19-20 February 2001. Presentations made at the workshop are available here.
Study conducted at the Finnish Environment Institute (FEI) in cooperation with CIAM and Imperial College London to estimate the importance of exposure of rural and urban populations in Europe to primary PM, presentation by Matti Johansson (FEI).
A research note prepared by INERIS on integrating the environmental effects of PM into emission control strategies, presentation by Jean-Marc Brignon (INERIS)
C. Progress in atmospheric modelling and measurement of PM
Progress report by EMEP/MSC-W, presented by Leonor Tarrasn (EMEP/MSC-W)
D. Urban modelling
Work on PM by the Senate of Berlin and the German Federal Environmental Agency (UBA), presented by Martin Lutz (Berlin).
Urban scale integrated assessment model (USIAM) applied to London, presented by Prof. Helen ApSimon (Imperial College London)
Results from the EEA ShAIR project on urban exposure, presented by Hans Eerens (EEA-ETC)
A joint project by MSC-W, CIAM and the EC JRC to address urban air pollution (ozone, PM10, and PM2.5), presented by Leonor Tarrassn (MSC-W)
III. INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT AT THE GLOBAL SCALE
Evaluation of linking global-regional-urban integrated assessment modelling scenarios, presented by Roel van Aalst (EEA)
Extending regional integrated assessment modelling to other regions of the world, presented by Richard Mills (IUAPPA)
Integrated assessment modelling for Asia, results of the new version of the RAINS-Asia model, presented by Markus Amann (IIASA) http://www.iiasa.ac.at/~rains/tfiam.html
Integrated Assessment and IPCC: Links between climate change and sub-global environmental issues, Rob Swart, Technical Support Unit of IPCC Working Group III
IV. INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELLING ACTIVITIES BY PARTIES
The MERLIN project, presented by Rainer Friedrich (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Integrated assessment model in Poland, presented by Bohuslav Jankowski (ENERGYSYS)
A comparison between the cost curves in the RAINS-model and the Swedish environmental quality objectives, presented by Catarina Sternhufvud (IVL)
V. UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS
Uncertainty analysis for integrated assessment, first results, presented by Markus Amann (CIAM) http://www.iiasa.ac.at/~rains/tfiam.html
VI. WORK PLAN
Estimating critical loads and dynamic modelling, progress and plans, presented by Max Posch (CCE)