Atmospheric Sustainability
Atmospheric Sustainability
The scientific objective of the 'Atmospheric sustainability' subproject of ACCENT is to co-ordinate European research to improve on the basic parameterisations and process descriptions underlying air pollution issues, including links to terrestrial and marine systems and to local air quality, with an emphasis on the costs and benefits of emissions abatement.
For the "policy response" feedback, ACCENT will focus on different emission scenarios requiring different levels of investment and commitment, drawn from analysis of climate change, transboundary air pollution, and national and local/urban scale assessment of air pollution problems. Scenarios will address the introduction of new technologies such as fuel cells and the hydrogen economy, or how a larger reliance on natural gas could evolve, or the reintroduction of nuclear power, or the use of economic instruments to control emissions.
For the "natural systems response", the subproject will bring together the atmospheric researchers organised under ACCENT with the science communities that use results from atmospheric research as an input for their own work. This would include scientists active in health impact, scientists working on air pollution damage to plants, on the contamination, acidification and eutrophication of aquatic systems and soils, on the impacts and feed-back processes of climate change, as well as economists. ACCENT will focus on co-ordinating research agendas to examine the atmospheric and biospheric response to changing emission patterns.
This combined analysis of the "policy responses" and "natural systems responses" will highlight possible synergies and conflicts between health impacts, acidification, climate change, nitrate leaching, and the link to other geochemical cycles that could lead to new requirements on the abatement of the air pollutant emissions at different scales.
The innovative aspects and added value of these activities will be in the area of building lasting structures for information exchange between research communities: between atmospheric scientists and modellers that address the long-term development of emissions, the technical and economic potentials for controlling emissions as well as the impacts of air pollution on various environmental issues. This will be done through a series of workshops aimed at producing plans for common research strategies.
- JOINT ACCENT/GEIA Workshop on 'Anthropogenic emissions for non-OECD countries in global inventories'
February 8-10, 2006
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
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Project coordinator: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche. coordinator@accent-network.org Project Office: Università di Urbino. project.office@accent-network.org Web-coordinator: Norwegian Institute for Air Research. mail@accent-network.org ACCENT Disclaimer |