Expert Panel on Agriculture and Nature

Online workshop,  16 Nov 2021

 

A workshop on ammonia abatement measures and how to reflect their effects in national emission inventories was organised by the EU TAIEX-EIR Peer 2 Peer and the Danish Ministry of Environment. The presentations made at this workshop are available HERE.

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.

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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

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• 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)

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

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Agenda with presentations

 

Introduction

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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 

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Coffee

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Part 2 Guidebook and Other matters

Ammonia emission factors for mineral fertilisers (3D) 

• Including presentation by H Döhler

Other emissions 

• Contaminants in pesticides

• Crop ammonia emissions 

• Direct and indirect nitric oxide emissions 

News of other activities 

• Report from TFRN

• INMS project

• INI 2020

• IPCC refinement

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Report to plenum

Workplan for 2019/2020