1. The Agriculture and Nature Panel Report
Ulrich Dämmgen and Nick Hutchings UN ECE Task Force on Emission Inventories and Projections, Agriculture and Nature Panel Federal Agricultural Research Centre , Institute of Agroecology, Braunschweig, Germany Danish Institute of Agricultural Science, Tjele, Denmark
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2. The Agriculture and Nature Panel
Personal changes
Hans Benny Rom, co-chair of the Panel, resigned.
Nicholas John Hutchings from the same institution (Department of Agricultural Systems, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, PO Box 50, Research Centre Foulum, 8830 Tjele, Denmark) is his successor.
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3. The Agriculture and Nature Panel
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4. The Agriculture and Nature Panel
Ammonia
(1) A mid-term meeting was held in Poznan together with the Ammonia Abatement Group.
Items discussed with respect to the Guidebook:
consistent development of the mass flow approach
comparison of various worksheets to harmonize calculations
Guidebook chapters B1010, 1020, 1040, 1050 and 1090 will be amended and updated to
· include information reflecting the situation in the accession and the Mediterranean countries
· to allow for a higher resolution in time (months)
Authors were identified; work has not started yet.
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5. The Agriculture and Nature Panel
Ammonia
(2) In order to assist countries with little experience in establishing an agricultural inventory according to the Guidebook, a comprehensive book on ammonia emissions and their inventories is being written and will be published in Poznan in 2005.
(3) The EAGER group (European Agricultural Emissions Researchers, with participants from Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK) met at Wageningen (June 10 to 11) and will meet in Zuerich (November 25 to 26, 2004) to work on details of the mass flow approach and the national input figures (e.g. N excretion).
(4) The updating of the IPCC guidelines will incorporate
EMEP/CORINAIR knowledge on NH3
and NO emissions (starting tomorrow).
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PM emissions
A PM meeting (with participants from Finland, Germany, Netherlands, UK) was held at The Hague, June 16/17.
The results justify writing of a preliminary chapter on PM emissions from animal houses with and without forced ventilation. A draft of the chapter was presented and discussed.
Progress is being made with a chapter on PM emissions from arable agriculture.
VOC emissions from forests
The lead author (R Steinbrecher) will arrange a
meeting of the authors in December 2004 and update
the present chapter 1101.
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7. The Agriculture and Nature Panel
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8. The Agriculture and Nature Panel
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9. The Agriculture and Nature Panel
Ammonia
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