TFRN-12: Presentations

TFRN-12 Meetings, June 29-30 2017, Aarhus

Plenary Meeting, Thursday June 29^th

Session 1: Introduction & Updates (Chair: Tommy Dalgaard)

• Welcome Prof. Tommy Dalgaard, Aarhus University
• Opening Address: ‘Research based policy support at Aarhus University and the Nitrogen agenda in Denmark’, Niels Halberg, Director of the Danish Centre for Food and Agriculture, and Centre Director for the International Centre for Research in Organic Food Systems at Aarhus University
• TFRN success stories and future challenges in coordination with the INMS, Nitro-Portugal etc., Mark Sutton & Claudia Cordovil
• Reports from the panels:
  
  • EPMAN (Expert Panel on Mitigating Agricultural Nitrogen), Shabtai Bittman, Canadian Dept Agriculture, and Barbara Amon, ATB, Germany
  • EPNB (Expert Panel on Nitrogen Budgets), Wilfried Winiwarter, IIASA, Austria, and Markus Geupel, Federal Environment Agency, Germany
  • EPNF (Expert Panel on Nitrogen and Food), Adrian Leip, EU-JRC, Italy, and Susanna Kugelberg / João Breda, UN-WHO, Copenhagen
  • EPN-EECCA (Expert Panel on Nitrogen in the Countries of Eastern Europe the Caucasus and Central Asia), Natalia Kozlova, IEEP & Sergei Lukin, All-Russian Research Institute of Organic Fertilizers and Peat, Russian Federation

Session 2: International activities (Chair: Claudia Cordovil)

• Report from the DNMARK Conference (Aarhus, June 25-27), Tommy Dalgaard 
• Report from the 6^th INI Conference (Melbourne, Dec 4-8), Cameron Gourley  
• Report from the WGSR Special Segment on “Agriculture and air pollution” workshop, (Geneva June 1-2) and the latest policy developments, Mark Sutton
• CLRTAP activities and cross cutting issues, Alina Novikova
• Engagement across CLRTAP (e.g. Task force on Techno-Economic Issues, Working Group on Effects), Anais Durand
• The VERA initiative – Verification of Environmental Technologies for Agricultural Production, Gabriele Wechsung

Session 3: "Joined up methods for good N management" (Chair: Mark Sutton)

Summary from the OECD and EU workshops in Paris and Brussles, May/Octobe and way forward, Mark Sutton

Final report from the October workshop, Clare Howard

• Theme 1: Principles of overall N Management (Oene Oenema)
• Theme 2: Housed livestock, manure storage, manure processing (Barbara Amon/ Nick Hutchings)
• Theme 3: Field application of organic and inorganic fertilizers (Tom Misselbrook)
• Theme 4: Land use and landscape management (Tommy Dalgaard)
• General Discussion on developing Guidance on Joined up N management and preparation of next steps.

Session 4: Coordination with INMS activities (Chair: Clare Howard)

• INMS Activity 2.3 (Integrating methods measures N mitigation and management approaches) and coordination with EPMAN (Oene Oenema and Will Brownlie)
• INMS activity 1.1 (N indicators) and coordination with EPNB (Cameron Gourley/Tom Misselbrook and Wilfried Winiwarter)
• INMS Activities 1.5 and 2.1 (INMS modelling activities) (Wilfried Winiwarter/Wim de Vries)

Session 5: Development of the TFRN Work Plan for 2017-2018 (Chair: Tommy Dalgaard)

• Summary of process and timeline for Work Plan Alina Novikova
• Updates on delivery of 2016-2017 Work Plan & Drafting of 2018-2019 Work Plan Tommy Dalgaard, Clare Howard