TFRN Meetings & Events

Here you can find the documents and presentations from the 1st meeting of the Task Force on Reactive Nitrogen Wageningen, The Netherlands, 21st-23rd May, 2008

Documents

Official co-chair report of TFRN-1 to the Working Group on Strategies and Review (WGSR)

Note of the chairs on the 1999 Gothenburg protocol, to be discussed during the late afternoon of Thursday 22 May,

Note of the UNECE-Bureau of the Working Group on Effects about writing a report on "Airborne nitrogen impacts on the environment"

Presentations

Day 1: Wednesday 21st May

Welcome

Mark Sutton, Background to establishing the TFRN

Oene Oenema, Objectives of TFRN-1: Review and developing the workplan

Matti Johansson, Place of TFRN in the Convention and Role of the Secretariat

Plenary discussion

 

Ongoing work UNECE-CLRTAP

Tor Johanesson, Working Group on Effects

Johan Sliggers, Working Group on Strategies and Review

EMEP Steering Body

Rob Maas, Task Force Integrated Assessment Modelling

Plenary discussion

 

Views of national representatives

Benjamin Gimeno, Experiences from Spain

Ilaria D'Elia, Experiences from Italy

Asa Sjöström, Experiences from United Kingdom

Torben Moth Iversen, Experiences from Denmark

Kaste Oyvind, Experiences from Norway

Plenary discussion

 

Day 2: Thurdsay 22nd May

European Nitrogen Assessment (ENA)

Mark Sutton, Overview of the ENA

Jan Willem Erisman, Report from ENA-1: Nitrogen & current European policies

Plenary discussion.

 

Views from other International Conventions

Albert Bleeker, CBD, Protecting Biodiversity

Plenary discussion

 

Views of Commissions and International Organizations

Anke Lukewille, EEA

Kaj Sanders, Dutch Nitrogen Policy Experiences

Keith Smith, Nitrogen in the IPCC analysis of mitigation in agriculture
Martin Dedina, N related policy in the Czech Republic
Nils-Axel Brathen, OECD

Jaap van Wenum, COPA, COGECA

Frank Brentrup, EFMA

Plenary discussion

 

Nitrogen emissions inventories & mitigation

Susan Gardner, The US case

Nick Hutchings, Agriculture and Nature Panel, UNECE-Task Force on Emission Inventories and Projections

Mark de Bode, UNECE Expert Group on Ammonia Abatement

Discussions on possible future TFRN panels e.g. mitigation techniques

 

Revision of the Gothenborg Protocol, with focus on NH3

Wilfried Winiwater, IIASA, Recent studies on NH3 emissions ceilings

Oene Oenema, Integrated measures in agriculture to decrease NH3 emissions

Discussion about proposal "On the 1999 Gothenburg Protocol"
Developing the TFRN Agenda
Parallel Groups: Discussion on Short and Long Term Objectives

 

Day 3: Friday 23rd May

New perspectives on reactive nitrogen

Kevin Hicks, Considering the ecosystems approach as a way forward for the regulation of ammonia emissions

Anastasia Svirejeva-Hopkins, Reactive nitrogen in cities

 

Developing the TFRN Agenda

Five minute reports of the Parallel Group Discussions on short-term and long-term objectives and activities

 

Decisions and Future Work Plan of TFRN

Plenary Discussion and conclusions
  • Overall vision of the TFRN and agreed key objectives
  • Future of work previously conducted by Ammonia Expert Group
    (e.g. possible Panel on Agricultural Mitigation Methods)
  • Role of ENA as a contribution to TFRN
  • Report on "Airborne nitrogen impacts on the environment", proposal by the Bureau of the Working Group on Effects (see attached document)
  • Proposal for Work Plan and discussion
  • Agreement on Actions, including next meetings.