LRTAP Convention 1979 2004 Harald Dovland Ministry of

LRTAP Convention: 1979 -2004 Harald Dovland, Ministry of Environment, Norway

The Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (1979) • Art. 2 “…. Parties … shall endeavour to limit and, as far as possible, gradually reduce and prevent air pollution including long-range transboundary air pollution. ”

CLRTAP Protocols • The 1985 Protocol on Reduction of Sulphur Emissions • The 1988 Protocol concerning the Control of Nitrogen Oxides • The 1991 Protocol on Control of Emissions of VOCs • The 1994 Protocol on Further Reduction of Sulphur Emissions • The 1998 Protocol on Heavy Metals • The 1998 Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants • The 1999 Protocol to abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-level Ozone

Helsinki Protocol (1985) • Art. 2: ”The Parties shall reduce their national annual sulphur emissions or their transboundary fluxes by at least 30 per cent as soon as possible and at the latest by 1993, using 1980 levels as the basis for calculation of reductions. ”

Gothenburg Protocol (1999) • Multi-pollutant multi-effect protocol • Art. 3: “Each Party having an emission ceiling in any table in annex II shall reduce and maintain the reduction in its annual emissions in accordance with that ceiling and the timeframes specified in that annex. ”

SO 2 commitments NOx commitments VOC commitments NH 3 commitments

LRTAP development • From simple, flat rate type commitments to effect oriented protocols aiming at cost-efficient solutions. • Strong links between science and policy.

Executive Body Working Group on Effects ICP Forests Task Force Implementation Committee EMEP Steering Body Working Group on Strategies and Review Programme Coordinating Centre Task Force on Emission Inventories and Projections ICP Integrated Monitoring Task Force Programme Centre Task Force on Measurement and Modelling ICP Modelling and Mapping Task Force Coordination Center for Effects Chemical Coordinating Centre Network of Experts on Benefits and Economic Instruments Main Research Centre Meteorological Synthesizing Centre-West Expert Group on Techno-economic Issues ICP Vegetation Task Force Programme Centre Meteorological Synthesizing Centre-East ICP Waters Task Force Programme Centre ICP Materials Task Force Health Task Force on Integrated Assessment Modelling Centre for Integrated Assessment Modelling Expert Group on Ammonia Abatement Expert Group on Heavy Metals Task Force on POPs Proposed Expert Group on Particulate Matter

Emission trends of SO 2 in the EMEP area 1980 -2001. Source: EMEP/MSC-W

Future challenges • Financing of core activities, both national monitoring and research activities and international coordination. • Improve the basis for effect based approach; all elements of integrated assessment models should be based on state-of-the-art science and high quality data.