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Air pollution and its relations to climate change and sustainable development - Linking immediate needs with long term challanges "Saltsjöbaden 3" |
12-14 March 2007, Gothenburg, Sweden |
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With
this announcement we invite you to a 3rd strategic air pollution
workshop related to international needs and processes. This workshop will
include the two aspects of the earlier workshops; it will both contain an
evaluation of present knowledge and processes towards new policies but it
will also look at scientific and policy needs in a longer perspective, in
particular the links between air pollution and climate change. Aspects of
particular importance for this workshop include: - The present understanding of air pollution policies in relation to CAFE and CLRTAP. -
The interaction between air pollution and climate change, both with
respect to atmospheric behaviour and effects in the environment and with
respect to policy options. -
The intercontinental transport of air pollution and needs for a
hemispheric approach. -
The importance and policy needs with respect to emissions from shipping. -
The role of nitrogen and possibilities for an integrated policy to control
nitrogen emissions and impacts. - The involvement of countries in transition in the air pollution policy development.
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Registration and Workshop information |
The
workshop will start Monday 12 March 2007 at 13:00 and finish Wednesday 14
March 2007 at 14:00. Final registration should be made before 12 February 2007 There is no conference fee and the meals during the workshop is free of charge. The organisers will give support to a limited number of participants from EECCA countries for travels and accommodations expenses. (For more information contact the workshop secretariat)
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Backgroud |
Air quality and climate change are becoming increasingly interlinked. Several compounds important for climate change, e.g. ozone and particles, are also important for air pollution. Climate change and air pollution are also interlinked with respect to atmospheric processes and environmental effects. Climate change will influence the emissions, transport and chemical behaviour of atmospheric pollutants and air pollution will influence the greenhouse gas cycles. Policies for one problem will thus influence the other. Climate change policies can have important co-benefits in the form of reduced air pollution. A combined approach of climate change and air pollution could have positive synergetic effects. The interlink between the problems has been highlighted in several activities, e.g. the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP) and research programs such the EU ACCENT Network of Excellence. Also within the European Commission the problem has recently become important due to the advantages in linking climate and air pollution policies. CLRTAP, covering most of the countries in Europe and Canada and USA, has been an important forum for assessments, policy discussions and agreements on control measures for some of the main international atmospheric problems. The Convention has recently also increased its interest to include hemispheric aspects as well as relations between regional (international) and local air pollution issues. In 2001, the European Commission initiated a process, Clean Air For Europe, directed towards an integrated and holistic view on European air pollution, which in 2005 resulted in a thematic strategy on air pollution outlining needs and possible pathways towards a significant improvement of European air quality in 2020. Also in North America and East and South Asia international initiatives are taken in order to improve air quality. In 2000 the Swedish ASTA program organised a workshop at Saltsjöbaden, Sweden directed at further needs in air pollution strategies in the view of the recently signed Gothenburg Protocol and the corresponding process under the European Commission. The outcome of the workshop served as a guideline for the further scientific and policy work. In 2004 a second workshop was held in Gothenburg, at which the further development in science and policy were evaluated in the view of expected policy recommendations. Download The Workshop Report from Saltsjöbaden 2, October 2004 (pdf) Read the report from the Saltsjöbaden 1 workshop in 2000 (pdf)
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Aims of the workshop |
The
workshop will be directed towards: -
A discussion and evaluation of the current scientific understanding and
possibilities regarding further legislation based on the EC Thematic
Strategy on Air Pollution and the elements of the review of the Gothenburg
protocol under CLRTAP. - An assessment of possible future science and policy needs in order to solve the long-term air pollution problems in both European (continental) and Northern hemispheric perspectives taking into account aspects such as socio-economic development and climate change.
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Organisation of the workshop |
The
meeting will consist of plenary sessions with keynote presentations and
working group sessions. |
Plenary presentations (tentative) |
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Science-driven policy development - Today's experience and challenges for
the future. -
Air pollution and climate change. Environmental and health interactions. -
Climate change and air pollution - how to get policies work together. -
Integrated Assessment modelling - future challenges and possibilities. -
Expanding regional air pollution policies. -
The EU process on regional air pollution. -
The North American experience in air pollution policies. -
Asia
- a challenge for air pollution control. - Nitrogen - needs for an integrated approach.
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Contributions to the workshop |
Short
written contributions to the working group themes are welcomed. Titles and
abstracts are appreciated as soon as possible in order to be able to plan
the working group sessions. Working papers will be available on the workshop's web page after submission to the secretariat. As a start of the working group sessions there will be possibilities for short presentations. The organising committee will, together with the chair-persons of the working groups, organise these sessions.
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Secretariat |
Peringe Grennfelt (program issues) IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute
Lars Lindau (program issues) Swedish Environment Protection Agency lars.lindau@naturvardsverket.se
Jenny Arnell (registration etc.) IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute |
Organising Committee |
Peringe Grennfelt , Lars Lindau, Anna Engleryd, Jenny Arnell |
Program Committee |
Markus Amann, Austria Richard Ballaman, Switzerland Keith Bull, UN ECE Francisco Cardoso Ferreira, Portugal David Fowler, UK Peringe Grennfelt, Sweden Bill Harnett, USA Tor Johannesen, Norway Andrzej Jagusiewicz, Poland Lars Lindau, Sweden Rob Maas, The Netherlands Frank Raes, JRC/ACCENT Jürgen Schneider, Austria Surendra Shrestha, UNEP Leonor Tarrason, Norway Matti Vainio, DG Environment Les White, UK Martin Williams, UK André Zuber, DG Environment Christer Ågren, Sweden |
The
workshop will be held at Quality Hotel 11 (www.hotel11.se)
in Gothenburg Quality
Hotel 11 Maskingatan
11 SE-417
64 Gothenburg Sweden
Phone:
+46 31 779 11 11 Fax:
+46 31 779 11 10 E-mail:
q.hotel11@choice.se |
If you have any questions please contact Jenny Arnell