EGTEI: Mandate & Outputs expected for 2003 EGTEI Steering Group: 4 April 2003, Paris Brinda Wachs Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE

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EGTEI Steering Group: 4 April 2003, Paris Convention Work-plan 2003 1.7 TECHNO-ECONOMIC ISSUES Description/objectives: To further explore best available techniques (BAT) for emission abatement, their efficiency and costs; to develop techno-economic databases and methodologies for evaluating uncertainties and to draw up draft revisions of techno-economic issues in annexes to protocols, including the Protocol on Heavy Metals: UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE

EGTEI Steering Group: 4 April 2003, Paris Convention Work-plan 2003, (continued) Main activities and time schedule: (a) The Expert Group on Techno-economic Issues, with France as its lead country, will continue its work toward the development of software describing emission control options, their costs and ranges of uncertainties. The Expert Group will hold several meetings during 2003, including: sectoral meetings, a workshop on software use, and one or two plenary sessions. The results of the sectoral meetings will be transmitted to the Expert Group at its plenary meetings;

EGTEI Steering Group: 4 April 2003, Paris Convention Work-plan 2003, (continued) Main activities and time schedule: (b) Tables will be prepared by the Expert Group’s secretariat of in-country data on costs of abatement techniques in the selected sectors according to SNAP/NFR (Nomenclatures for reporting) as defined in the Guidelines for Estimating and Reporting Emissions Data, as well as explanatory notes to the tables; UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE

EGTEI Steering Group: 4 April 2003, Paris Convention Work-plan 2003, (continued) Main activities and time schedule: (c) In 2003, validated data on typical installations, including information on investment and operational costs, etc., of abatement techniques will be submitted by countries and transmitted to the Centre for Integrated Assessment Modelling (CIAM). CIAM will aggregate the data and input it into the RAINS model. They will also be used in the updating of technical annexes to protocols to reflect emission control options and their costs, as part of the protocol review process, beginning in 2004.

The model: RAINS developed by IIASA (Atmos data: EMEP, Impact data: RIVM-CCE) Energy/agriculture projections Emission control options OPTIMIZATION Emissions Costs Atmospheric dispersion Environmental targets Environmental impacts Source: IIASA

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