Welcome to the TFRN website

This is the website of theTask Force on Reactive Nitrogen (TFRN) under the Working Group on Strategies and Review of the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution

TFRN is co-led by the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.

The Co-Chairs are Mark Sutton (United Kingdom) and Oene Oenema (Netherlands).

The Task Force holds plenary meetings at least once a year, see below for details on the first TFRN meeting and visit the 'Meetings and Events' page to find out more about future plenary meetings.

Three Expert Panels have been set up by the TFRN, the Expert Panel on Mitigation of Agricultural Nitrogen (EPMAN) and the Expert Panel on Nitrogen Budgets (EPNB). These panels meet more often than the TFRN, work on specific issues and provide input to TFRN. A third panel on Nitrogen and Food (EPNF) has been set up recently. Please visit the Expert Panel pages for more information.

TFRN activities

TFRN-7 and Expert Workshop 'Abating ammonia emissions in the UNECE and EECCA region in the context of the nitrogen cycle'


The seventh meeting of the Task Force on Reactive Nitrogen, meetings of expert panels, and a workshop on ammonia abatement, will be held in St. Petersburg, Russia, from the 28th Feb-2nd March, 2012. Further information on the meeting, venue, registration (including first details to apply for a visa) can be found here.


The European Nitrogen Assessment


The European Nitrogen Assessment (in short ENA) was launched at the Nitrogen & Global Change event in Edinburgh on the 11th April, 2011. Watch a short video (on YouTube) and read more about the ENA on the website of the ESF-NinE programme.The BBC News have covered the ENA on television and in the Science & Environment news.


Edinburgh Declaration on Reactive Nitrogen


Edinburgh Declaration on Reactive Nitrogen emerging from the Nitrogen & Global Change event launched


6th meeting of the Task Force Reactive Nitrogen (TFRN-6)


TFRN-6 was held in Rome, Italy, at ENEA on the 10th-12th May 2011, please visit the TFRN-6 homepage for access to presentations and documents.


5th meeting of the Task Force Reactive Nitrogen (TFRN-5)


TFRN-5 was held in Paris on the 25th-27th October 2010, along with a workshop on estimating costs of ammonia abatement.


4th meeting of the Task Force Reactive Nitrogen (TFRN-4)


The fourth meeting of the Task Force Reactive Nitrogen was held in May 11-13, 2010 in Prague/CZ, please visit the Documents to access the meeting reports and background documents.


3rd meeting of the Task Force Reactive Nitrogen (TFRN-3)


The third meeting of the Task Force Reactive Nitrogen has been held near Schipol airport, at the IBIS Hotel on the 24th-25th November 2009. Documents are available on the Documents page soon.


2nd meeting of the Task Force Reative Nitrogen (TFRN-2)


This meeting took place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, 28th-29th April 2009.
Please visit the Documents page for more information and follow the links to TFRN-2 documents and presentations.


1st meeting of the Task Force Reative Nitrogen (TFRN-1)


The first meeting of TFRN took place on 21-23 May 2008 at the Wageningen International Conference Centre (WICC), the Netherlands. Presentations and documents from the meeting can be downloaded from the 'Documents' page.


Official Documents


Official documents related to the establishment of the Task Force can be found at the 'Documents' page.


Contact


You can contact the Co-Chairs of the Task Force by email at tfrn@ceh.ac.uk


You can return to the Convention’s web page for TFRN here (http://www.unece.org/env/lrtap/TaskForce/tfrn/welcome.htm).