Swedish Clean Air Research Program SCARP Frisk Luft i Sverige

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Swedish Clean Air Research ProgramSCARP Frisk
Luft i Sverige

• Research Program
• 2006-2012

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SCARP

• Six year research program
• Builds on earlier the earlier Swedish reearch
  programs SNAP (air pollution and human health)
  och ASTA (Support to international air pollution
  strategies).
• Four themes
• Human health
• Particles
• Ecosystem effects
• Integrated assessment models (IAM)

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Objective

• The program should support the international and
  national policy development through relevant
  scientific research.
• CLRTAP
• EU CAFE
• National environmental objectives
• The timescale is mainly with respect to policy
  processes beyond 2010.

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SCARP
Executive Body
Implementation
Committee
EMEP-SB
WGE
WGSR
Area 3
ICP Forests
Ad hoc expert
TFEIP
TF
groups
ICP Integ. Monit
TFMM
TF
ICP Mapping
TFIAM
TF
ICP Materials
TFHTAP
TF
ICP Vegetation
Area 2
Area 4
TF
Area 1
ICP Waters
TF
Example on how SCARP activities relate to CLRTAP
Convention
TFH
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Health effects
SCARP

• Göteborgs Universitet , Karolinska Insititutet,
  Umeå Universitet
• Tom Bellander, Bertil Forsberg, Anna-Carin Olin,
  Göran Pershagen, Thomas Sandström, Gerd Sällsten
• 12 subprojects
• Directions
• Swedish (Northern Europe) conditions wood
  burning, winter air pollution
• Strengthen participation in EU FP7 projects

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Particles
SCARP

• ITM, Lunds Universitet, GU (DNMI), SMHI
• Hans Christen Hansson, Christer Johansson,
  Kristina Stenström, Erik Swietlicki, David
  Simpson, Valentin Foltescu
• Three subprojects
• Development of the EMEP model to include particle
  dynamics
• Parameterisation of particle dynamics (incl.
  organics)
• Database on emissions of relevance for modelling
  particle dynamics

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Ecosystem effects (nitrogen)
SCARP

• IVL, SLU, Skogforsk, Lunds Universitet
• Cecilia Akselsson, Salim Belyazid, Lars Högbom,
  John Munthe, Filip Moldan, Annika Nordin, Harald
  Sverdrup
• Three subprojects
• Nitrogen cycling in forest soils
• Dynamic modelling evaluation and development
• Impact of forestry and climate change

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Integrated assessment modelling
SCARP

• IVL, VTI
• Mohammed Belhaj, Salim Belyazid, Lena Nerhagen,
  Catarina Sternhufvud, Stefan Åström
• 4 delprojekt
• Costs of non-technical measures (NTM) -
  theoretical aspects
• Inclusion of NTM in integrated assessment
  modelling (the IIASA GAINS model)
• Development of a Swedish integrated assessment
  model GAINS Sweden
• IAM calculations

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Program decision
SCARP

• The program is approved but under final
  negotiations with Naturvårdsverket
• The final budget of 18 MSEK for the first three
  years is cut with 5.

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Program organisation

• Program coordinator Peringe Grennfelt
• Area coordinators
• Health Göran Pershagen IMM
• Particles HC Hansson ITM
• Ecosystems John Munthe IVL
• Integrated assessments Jenny Arnell IVL
• Communication Jenny Arnell IVL

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Science and policy closely linked during the
whole history of transboundary air pollution
Science
Policy
The first alam Odén 1967
Swedens case study
1970
Discovery
OECD projekt 71-76 Acid rain is a
transboundary problem
Convention on Long-range Transboundary. Air
Pollution
1980
Soil acidification verified
Consensus
First Sulphur Protocol
Introduction of critical loads
Cost-efficient strategies
1990
Second Sulphur Protocol
Multipollutant integrated assessm. model
Gothenburg Protocol
Inclusion of dynamic aspects
2000
Dynamic modelling of effects
NEC Directive
EU CAFE Proposal
CLRTAP review