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Inventory improvement activities & reporting for Ireland

Inventory improvement activities & reporting for Ireland. Paul Duffy. EPA structure. A full-time executive board of 5 Directors (Director General and 4 Directors) Each director is responsible for one office Office of Environmental Assessment (OEA)

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Inventory improvement activities & reporting for Ireland

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  1. Inventory improvement activities & reporting forIreland Paul Duffy

  2. EPA structure • A full-time executive board of 5 Directors (Director General and 4 Directors) • Each director is responsible for one office • Office of Environmental Assessment (OEA) • Office of Climate, Licensing and Resource Use (OCLR) • Office of Environmental Enforcement (OEE) • Office of Communications and Corpoate Services (OCCS)

  3. Office of Climate Licensing and Resource Use (OCLR)

  4. What do we report? • Inventories for NOx, SO2, NMVOC and NH3 under NEC Directive 2001/81/EC for 2001-2005 (and adjusted inventories to account for fuel tourism in road transport) • Inventories for NOx, SO2, NMVOC, NH3, CO, TSP, PM10, PM2.5 for 1990-2005 (and adjusted inventories to account for fuel tourism in road transport) under CLRTAP • Inventories for 3 priority metals Pb, Cd and Hg and the six additional heavy metals for 1990-2005 • Inventories for Annex III POPs; Dioxins, PAHs and HCB for 2002-2005

  5. What do we report (2)? • Gridded data for NOx, SO2, NMVOC, NH3, CO, TSP, PM10, PM2.5, Pb, Cd, Hg and Annex III POPs for 1990, 1995, 2000 and 2005 • LPS data for NOx, SO2, NMVOC, CO, TSP, PM10, PM2.5, Pb, Cd, and Hg for 1990, 1995, 2000 and 2005 • Inventories for NOx, SO2 and Dust under the Large Combustion Plant Directive 2001/80/EC for 1990-2005

  6. NMVOC 1990-2005 NEC 55 kilotonnes

  7. Ammonia 1990-2005 NEC 116 kilotonnes

  8. Sulphur dioxide 1990-2005 NEC 42 kilotonnes

  9. Nitrogen oxides 1990-2005 NEC 65 kilotonnes

  10. Nitrogen oxides (adjusted for fuel tourism)1990-2005 NEC +3.2 kt +4.6 kt +4.2 kt +2.5 kt +1.3 kt -0.3 kt -3.4 kt -4.5 kt -9.1 kt -11.0 kt -11.9 kt -12.3 kt -10.1 kt -8.9 kt -9.3 kt -9.4kt

  11. Petrol price comparison Ire/UK + 18% + 32% Price parity - 43 %

  12. Diesel price comparison Ire/UK + 23% + 38% Price parity - 34%

  13. Estimated road transport fuel tourism

  14. LCP Directive 1990-2005 124 kilotonnes 50 kilotonnes

  15. Recent improvements • Estimation of Emissions of NMVOC from SNAP Sector 06: Solvent and other product use (Ireland 1998). Clean Technology Centre, March 2000. • NMVOC Inventory for Ireland, SNAP Sector 06: Solvent and other product use 2000 to 2004. Clean Technology Centre and AEA Technology- NETCEN, November 2005. • Ireland, Heavy Metal Inventories 1990, 1995-2004. Clean Technology Centre and NETCEN, February 2006. • National Atmospheric Inventory System (NAIS) • Establish The Institutional, Legal and Procedural Arrangements Necessary To Compile Consistent and Transparent National Inventories of Emissions to the Atmosphere(Government Decision on 3rd April 2007)

  16. Recent improvements (2) • New Tier 2 Ammonia methodology for agriculture (B.Hyde modified Misselbrook model, 2005) • New expanded national energy balance from SEI (final balance available in October each year) • EPA inventory team have a new QA\QC system (for ALL inventories; GHGs, HMs, Acid gases) • Additional resources for Projections (new staff)

  17. Future improvements • Inventories of Persistent Organic Pollutants 1990, 1995-2006 (PCDD/ PCDF, HCB and PAHs)(recent call for tender, report due by Feb. 2008) • Use COPERT 4 for the next reporting round 1990-2006 (for NEC and CLRTAP) • Inventories of NMVOC emissions?? • NH3 emission research results (2-3 years)

  18. COPERT 4 v COPERT 3 for nitrogen oxides average 11 % higher average 5.6 % higher

  19. Revision of the National Programme for Ireland • Under Article 6(3) of Directive 2001/81/EC • Finalised in August 2007 • http://www.environ.ie/en/Publications/Environment/Atmosphere/

  20. NOx projections “with” measures 98,400 tonnes + 33.4 kt

  21. NOx projections “with additional” measures 92,800 tonnes + 27.8 kt

  22. SO2 projections “with” measures 33,000 tonnes - 9.0 kt

  23. NMVOC projections “with” measures 54,988 tonnes

  24. NOx projections “with additional” measures -14.5 kt 101,500 tonnes

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