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

The eighth meeting of the Task Force on Reactive Nitrogen (TFRN-8) 25th-26th April, Copenhagen

TFRN-8 is being held jointly with a meeting of the Task Force on Integrated Assessment Modelling (TFIAM) and a workshop on Green Growth. The main TFRN meeting will be held on the 25th-26th (lunchtime - lunchtime). The venue will be in the North of Copenhagen and is easily reached by public transport - more details on venue etc, can be found at the following link.

International Agroenvironmental Forum, 21-23 May, 2013, in St-Petersburg, the Russian Federation

It will take place on the premises of North-West Research Institute of Agricultural Engineering and Electrification (SZNIIMESH) of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences. The forum is designed as un umbrella for three events: 8th International Scientific and Practical Conference “Ecology and Farming technologies: agro-engineering approaches”, 3-rd International conference of Nordic countries “Field Research for Sustainable Development of Rural Areas” and Round Table Discussion “Mitigation of Adverse Environmental Effect of Reactive Nitrogen in Farming” Please, note the registration deadline is 10 December, 2012. More information will be available on www.sznii.ru

Questionnaire on the Framework Code for Good Agricultural Practices online here.

The 'Workshop on global nitrogen scenarios in the 21st century', took place on the 11th-12th October 2012 at IIASA/Laxenburg, a summary from the meeting will be posted here in due course. In the meanwhile this was the Agenda prior to the meeting.

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

The TFRN-7 and associated meetings were held in late Feb/early Mar in St Petersburg, Russia. Links to the meetings, presentations and background documents can be found here. A link to the co-chairs report can be found here.

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.

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 & Environmentnews.

Edinburgh Declaration on Reactive Nitrogen

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

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).