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Agriculture and Nature Panel. Nick Hutchings, Barbara Amon and Rainer Steinbrecher. To whom do we belong…. Part of the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Pollution Administratively under the UN Economic Commission for Europe
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Agriculture and Nature Panel Nick Hutchings, Barbara Amon and Rainer Steinbrecher
To whom do we belong… • Part of the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Pollution • Administratively under the UN Economic Commission for Europe • Established by the Task Force on Emissions, Inventories and Projections
Task Force on Reactive Nitrogen
Role of the TFEIP sectoral panels • EEA/EMEP Atmospheric Emission Inventory Guidebook • Collate and review • Emitting activities, emission factors, inventory methodologies • Division/amalgamation of reporting categories • Need for new research • Methodologies, emission factors, activity statistics
Panel meetings • Breakout from annual TFEIP meeting • Mainlyinventory compilers • Many new faceseachyear • Onlyfewscientists. • Need to connect to the scientificcommunity
Reorganisation • Before 2008 • Expert Group on Abatement of Ammonia. • Joint meetings. • After 2008 • Task Force on Reactive Nitrogen • Expert Panel on Mitigation of Agricultural Nitrogen • Expert Panel on Nitrogen Balances • Need to re-establishconnections to researchers