Expert Panel on Agriculture and Nature

Expert Panel Contacts

Nick Hutchings (co-chair with focus on GHG and ammonia emissions)

Department of Agroecology, University of Aarhus

PO Box 50, Research Centre Foulum

8830 Tjele

Denmark

Tel: +45 89991733

Email: nick.hutchings@agro.au.dk

Barbara Amon (co-chair with focus on GHG and ammonia emissions from animal husbandry)

Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering

Department of Technology Assessment and Substance Cycles

Max-Eyth-Allee 100

D-14469 Potsdam, Germany

Tel: +49 151 65117059

Email:

Rainer Steinbrecher (co-chair with focus on nature)

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Institute of Meterology and Climate Research (IMK-IFU)

Kreuzeckbahnstr. 19

82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Germany

Tel: +49 8821183217

Email:

Expert Panel Documents

Workplan

The current workplan is:

Complete new methodologies for fertiliser NH3 emission
Discuss crop NH3 emissions, NMVOC emissions, soil NOx emissions with the modelling community
Complete guidance on reporting emissions from anaerobic digestion
Continue and intensify the collaboration with TFRN (EPMAN/EPNB)
Assess need for methodologies for marine NH3 emissions and indirect NO emissions
Liaise with IPCC revision of agricultural sector

Expert Panel Meetings

2021 Meeting held virtually, 4 May 2021

This will be the second year in which we have been obliged to hold our meeting online. Online meetings have the advantage that more people can attend, since the cost of time, travel and accommodation are far lower than face-to-face meetings. In addition, we can avoid the disadvantages associated with the expert panel meetings being in parallel sessions. However, there are also a number of disadvantages and these include the need to constrain meetings to about 1.5 hours, to avoid both the presenters and the audience becoming exhausted. When TFEIP meets face-to-face, the duration of the expert panel sessions is normally about 3 hours.

The cumulative effect of two years without face-to-face meetings, combined with developments within the Gothenburg Protocol, mean that we have a backlog of issues to discuss. We have therefore decided to hold a separate online Agriculture and Nature Expert Panel meeting in November this year. The topics we foresee discussing at the meeting in November are:

Further developments of the methodology for calculating ammonia emissions from field-applied animal slurry.
Further developments of the methodology for calculating ammonia emissions from applications of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser.
Ammonia emissions from crops and crop residues.

The agenda for the May meeting is as follows:

Introduction, agenda and etiquette (Nick)
Gothenburg Protocol review - agriculture (Barbara)
Report on ammonia emissions (Barbara)
Reporting import/export of manure (suggested text for Guidebook) (Nick)
Experience with the N flow tool (Harald Menzi, FOEN)
The usefulness of background information and IIRs (Rasmus Einarsson, Chalmers)
EU training session 2020 and 2022 (Nick)
Insights on the Agricultural Emission Estimation (AgrEE) prototype tool (Manjola Banja, JRC)
Guidebook methodology developments (Nick)
Collaboration with TFRN, GRA, MELS (Barbara)
Non-agricultural livestock (Nick)
Workplan and wrap up (Nick)

2020 Meeting held virtually, 11-14 May 2020

Co-chair presentation (Nick and Barbara)
Improving national emission inventories for the agricultural sector in Europe (Monica Crippa et al, JRC)
EEA's Nitrogen Flow Tool (Rosie Brooke and Richard German - Aether)

2019 Meeting held in Thessaloniki, Greece 13-14 May 2019

Agenda with presentations

Introduction

Part 1 Guidebook Update

Emission factors for manure management (3B & 3D)
Linking manure management (3B), soil emissions (3D) and anaerobic digestion (5B2)
Excel spreadsheet to support manure management

Coffee

Part 2 Guidebook and Other matters

Ammonia emission factors for mineral fertilisers (3D)