The Convention on Longrange Transboundary Air Pollution and
The Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution and EMEP (The Cooperative Programme for Monitoring and Evaluation of the Longrange Transmission of Air Pollutants in Europe) Henning Wuester Secretariat of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe http: //www. unece. org/env/lrtap (for information on the Convention) http: //www. emep. int (for scientific work of EMEP)
The 49 Parties to the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution Kara Sea Barents Sea Artic Ocean Canada Iceland Pacific Ocean United States Finland North Sea Atlantic Ocean Norway Sweden Russian Federation Estonia Latvia Lithuania Denmark Ireland Belarus United Kingdom Netherlands Belgium Germany Luxembourg Poland Slovakia Austria Atlantic Ocean France Switzerland LI Monaco Ukraine Czech Rep. Hungary Moldova Slovenia Romania Croatia Bosnia and Herzegovina Yugoslavia Bulgaria Italy Kazakhstan Aral Sea Black Sea F. Y. R. of Albania Macedonia Spain Greece Portugal Turkey Malta Mediterranean Sea Cyprus Caspian Sea Azerbaijan Armenia Uzbekistan Georgia Turkmenistan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan
The 39 Parties to the EMEP Protocol of 1984 Artic Ocean CA FI NO SE RU RU EE BE FR PL DE LU. CZ CH PT UA SK AT HU SI HR IT ES Atlantic Ocean LT BY NL GB US LV DK IE Pacific Ocean BA RO YU AL MK GR KZ MD BG TR CY GE AM AZ KG UZ TM TJ
The main priorities under the Convention Ø Implementation of and compliance with protocols in force: ü 1985 and 1994 Sulphur Protocols ü 1988 NOx Protocol ü 1991 VOC Protocol Ø Review and extension of protocols: ü 1998 Protocol on POPs and Heavy Metals ü 1999 Gothenburg Protocol to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-level Ozone
Intergovernmental bodies, expert groups and scientific centres under the Convention
Main decisions of the 26 th session of the EMEP Steering Body (1) Ø New guidelines for reporting of the EMEP centres – increased role of the Task Forces in reviewing new science and data Ø New emission reporting guidelines Ø New monitoring strategy will be developed for adoption in 2003 Ø Integrated assessment modelling work shall examine the links between regional air pollution and climate change
Main decisions of the 26 th session of the EMEP Steering Body (2) Ø Eulerian model to be ready by Dec. 2002. High priority for its validation – call to Parties to help! Ø Also validation of the EMEP heavy metals model Ø Proposal to increase the budget (by 5%) in 2004 and update the assessment scale Ø Jürgen Schneider new EMEP Chairman Ø United Kingdom offered to take over the lead for the Task Force on Measurements and Modelling with Dick Derwent as Chairman
EMEP assessment report ØReport to be finalized by 2004 ØThe Working Group on Effects prepares a substantive report for 2004 – cooperation! ØThe review of the Gothenburg Protocol will start in 2004 ØThe Convention will have 25 years in 2004
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