EGTEI XIth meeting in Roma

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• Updates on
• Review/revision of the Protocols
• Emission reporting Guidelines

9th Joint TFEIP/EIONET Meeting Tallinn, 26-27 May
2008 Tea Aulavuo Convention on Long-range
Transboundary Air Pollution
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IMPLEMENTATION COMMITTEE
EXECUTIVE BODY
WG EFFECTS
EMEP
WG STRATEGIES AND REVIEW
ICP Forests Task Force
Programme Coordinating Centre
Task Force on Emission Inventories and Projections
Task Force on Reactive Nitrogen
Centre for Emission Inventories and Projections
ICPIntegrated Monitoring Task Force
Task Force on Heavy Metals
Programme Centre
Task Force onMeasurement and Modelling
ICP Modelling and Mapping Task Force
Coordination Centre for Effects
Network of Experts on Benefits and Economic
Instruments
Chemical Coordinating Centre
ICP Materials Task Force
Meteorological Synthesizing Centre-West
Main Research Centre
Expert Group on Techno-economic Issues
Meteorological Synthesizing Centre-East
ICP Vegetation Task Force
Programme Centre
Task Forceon POPs
Task Force on Integrated Assessment Modelling
ICP Waters Task Force
Programme Centre
Expert Group on Particulate Matter
Centre for Integrated Assessment Modelling
Task Force Health
TF on Hemispheric Transport of Air Pollution
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EB_25 (December 07)

• Invited Parties to improve their emission
  inventories of HMs, POPs and PM
• Welcomed reorganization of emission work and
  Austrias offer to host a new EMEP centre on
  emissions
• Welcomed progress in updating the Guidebook
• Approved methods and procedures for emission
  inventory reviews, including stage 3 in-depth
  reviews
• Encouraged Parties to nominate experts for the
  roster of review experts and to volunteer for
  stage 3 reviews in 2008
• Invited Parties to review their nominations of
  designated emission experts and up-date contact
  information.

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2008 CLRTAP Workplan Emissions (1)

• Submit emission data for 2006, projections and
  updates and IIRs
• Compile and upload reported data, and help in
  inventory quality testing
• Review data (Stage I and II) and produce
  synthesis report and country-specific reports.
  Implement tests improved by TFEIP
• Stage III nominate eligible reviewers, provide
  guidance to reviewers and templates review
  inventories from volunteering Parties
• Improve further quality of emission data for HM
  metals

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2008 CLRTAP Workplan Emissions (2)

• Provide/review data for assessments and for
  modelling purposes
• Facilitate use of revised Guidelines for 2009
  reporting
• Develop guidance for non-Party estimates for
  modelling
• Complete, review and publish the revised
  Guidebook
• Develop a maintenance plan of the Guidebook
• Contribute to development of ECs web portal and
  of methodology for reporting projected emission
  data
• Facilitate annual data submissions, including
  through EIONET REPORTNET CDR
• Hold 20th TFEIP meeting 26-27 May 2008 in Tallinn
  and 21st meeting in autumn 2008.

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CLRTAP Protocols

• 1985 and 1994 Sulphur Protocols
• 1988 NOx Protocol
• 1991 VOC Protocol
• 1998 Heavy Metals Protocol
• 1998 POP Protocol
• 1999 Gothenburg Protocol
• to abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground
  level Ozone

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• Revision of Gothenburg Protocol
• Process
• Review of obligations completed in Dec. 07
• Mandate to WGSR to negotiate further emission
  reduction obligations
• Plan and timetable adopted in April 08
• Parties sign the revised Protocol (December
  2009?)
• Scope
• Emission ceilings environmental targets
• Guidance documents
• Annexes (ELVs for SO2,NOx, VOCs, PM)

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• Gothenburg protocol Plan and timetable for
  revision (emission ceilings)
• (ECE/EB.AIR/WG.5/2008/13)
• Technical options for EECCA region (CIAM to
  WGRS41)
• Discussion on initial scenarios (WGSR 4)
• Source-receptor matrices extended to all of EMEP
  (MSC-W by August 08)
• Calculation of ceilings for CLE, implications of
  the Protocol and MFR for non-EU countries
  (TFIAM/CIAM to WGSR42)
• Submission of data by non-EU countries
  (validation by CIAM, Oct 08)

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Gothenburg protocol Work-plan and timetable
for revision (emission ceilings) (2)

• Calculation of optimized ceilings and scenario
  assumptions (TFIAM/CIAM Nov 08)
• Setting second round of scenarios WGSR/EB
• (Dec08)
• Presentation of second round of scenarios (by
  TFIAM to WGSR43)
• Selection of a scenario for negotiation WGSR 43)
• Agreement on emission ceilings for 2020 (Revised
  annex II) WGSR44 (September 2009)

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Options for revising POPs Protocol

• Process
• 2004-2007 Effectiveness and sufficiency review
  and management options by TF on POPs
• EB 25 mandated WGSR to negotiate draft
  amendments
• WGSR 41 42 to consider revision proposals
• In parallel, technical experts review annexes IV
  and V
• At EB 26 (Dec 08) Parties to POPs Protocol
  decide.
• Scope
• Reassessment of substance-related provisions, and
  revision of BAT and ELVs
• Inclusion of new substances in annexes I to III
  and their management options
• Possibility of expedited amendment procedure.

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• Review of Heavy Metals Protocol
• Review on sufficiency and effectiveness completed
  in Dec. 06
• Not yet a mandate to negotiate revisions
• EB_25 invited TFHM to work further
• on options for further reducing HM (updating BAT)
• to increase ratification by EECCA and SEE
• (relax management options, build capacity,
  including through workshops. First held in
  Yerevan in May 2008).

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Status of the Emission Reporting Guidelines
9th Joint TFEIP/EIONET Meeting Tallinn, 26-27 May
2008 Tea Aulavuo Convention on Long-range
Transboundary Air Pollution
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• Legal experts in consultation with TFEIP
  co-chairs (15-16 January, in Geneva)
• Identified existing enabling clauses in Protocols
  that would give legally binding effect to GL
  elements for Parties
• Drafted possible decisions for EB 26
• Improved GL language (more concise and explicit,
  less repetition, terminology consistent with
  Protocols)
• Flagged open policy issues to WGSR_41
  (calculation of road vehicle emissions,
  emissions from forest fires)

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• Legal Experts conclusions on Guidelines
• Useful practical guidance but not legally binding
• Its elements can be given legal effect (to
  Parties!) but only through provisions in
  Convention or Protocols (i.e. enabling clauses)
• Draft Decisions for EB_26 to adopt
• Under NOx and VOC protocols, report in line with
  annex IV
• Under 1994 Sulphur Protocol, report national
  annual emissions for all source categories in
  line with Guidelines
• Under HM, POPs and Gothenburg Protocols,
• report data on projections for 2030 and longer
  term projections if available (e.g. 2050)
• TO CREATE LEGALLY BINDING REPORTING OBLIGATIONS,
  PARTIES MUST REVISE THE PROTOCOLS!

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• WGSR at 41st session (April 2008)
• Agreed to forward the revised Guidelines, as
  amended, to the EMEP Steering Body for
  information and to EB_26, for adoption (CA and
  US reservations subject to discussion at WGSR 42)
  
• Agreed to forward the draft decision on emission
  data reporting as amended to EB for consideration
  and adoption
• GUIDELINES FOR REPORTING EMISSION DATA
• UNDER THE CONVENTION ON LONG-RANGE
• TRANSBOUNDARY AIR POLLUTION
• ECE/EB.AIR/2008/4
• Annexes available at EMEP-CEIP website
• http//www.emep-emissions.at/reporting-instructio
  ns/draft-2007-reporting-guidelines/list-of-annexes
  /

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WGSR-41 amendments to GL Emissions from
transport

• 15 (a) For emissions from transport, Parties
  within the EMEP region should calculate and
  report emissions consistent with national energy
  balances reported to Eurostat or the
  International Energy Agency. Emissions from road
  vehicle transport should therefore be calculated
  and reported on the basis of the fuel sold in the
  Party concerned. Parties outside of the EMEP
  region may use an alternative emission estimation
  strategy provided that they provide an
  explanation of the methodology to the EMEP Centre
  on Emission Inventories and Projections, CEIP. In
  addition, Parties may report emissions from road
  vehicles based on fuel used or kilometres driven
  in the geographic area of the Party. The method
  for the estimate(s) should be clearly specified
  in the IIR.

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WGSR-41 amendments to GL Emissions from
transport (2)

• 15 (b) For Parties within the EMEP region for
  which emission ceilings are derived from national
  energy projections based on the amount of fuels
  sold, compliance checking will be based on the
  reporting on the basis of fuels sold in the
  geographic area of the Party. Other Parties
  within the EMEP region1 may choose to use the
  national emission total calculated on the basis
  of fuels used in the geographic area of the Party
  as a basis for compliance. For Parties outside
  the EMEP region, which use an alternative
  methodology as identified to the EMEP Centre on
  Emission Inventories and Projections, CEIP,
  compliance checking will be based on that
  methodology.
• 1 Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Lithuania,
  Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Switzerland and
  United Kingdom are in this case.

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Adjustments to Annex IV reporting
formats/templates (1) (Emissions from
transport)

• i. For the transport sector, there should be two
  rows. The first is to report the emissions
  according to fuel sold (mandatory for all
  Parties). The second is for reporting emissions
  according to fuel consumed (only those countries
  which choose to report emissions according to
  fuel consumed have to fill in this row).
  Countries should indicate what choice they make
  for their protocol obligations. This should also
  automatically be reflected in the totals for
  checking compliance. That does not concern
  aviation.

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WGSR-41 amendments to GL Emissions of aviation

• 16 (a) Emissions of aviation (national and
  international) during the LTO cycle belong to the
  national totals. Cruise emissions from domestic
  and international aviation should not be included
  in national totals, but reported separately as
  memo items in table IV 1 of Annex IV to these
  Guidelines.

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Adjustments to Annex IV reporting
formats/templates (2)

• ii. Aviation national LTO and aviation
  international LTO emissions are separate items
  that belong to the national totals for current
  Protocol commitments (and commitments under the
  NEC Directive). Aviation national cruise and
  aviation international cruise emissions are
  separate memo items that do not belong to the
  national totals for current Protocol commitments
  (and commitments under the NEC Directive).

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WGSR-41 amendments to GL Emissions from shipping

• 16 (b) Emissions from fuels used for
  international maritime shipping should not be
  included in the national totals, whilst emissions
  from inland and domestic maritime shipping
  should. Emissions from other international
  shipping (as defined in part B of Annex I to
  these Guidelines), should not be included in
  national totals either, but should be reported
  separately as memo items in table IV 1 of Annex
  IV to these Guidelines.

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WGSR-41 amendments to GL Emissions from forest
fires

• 16 (c) Emissions from forest fires should not
  be included in national totals, but reported
  separately as memo items in table IV 1 of Annex
  IV to these Guidelines.

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Adjustments to Annex IV reporting
formats/templates (3)

• iii. The reporting template should automatically
  produce two national totals
• - a national total for the protocol obligations
  (and for the EU Member States for the obligations
  under the NEC directive)
• - one according the UNFCCC guidelines, to allow
  for data comparison.

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Further information on

• Convention website http//www.unece.org/env/lrta
  p
• TFEIP website
• http//tfeip-secretariat.org/unece.htm

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!