Guidebook Progress, & Maintenance Plan

Chris Dore

Guidebook Timeline

Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar AprTFEIP Meetings

GuidebookEP comments to ConsultantsConsultants preparing latest draftFinal comments: EPs to consultantsFinalisation by ConsultantsEP Leaders address any "critical" errorsCirculation prior to Spring meetingRecommendation of full adoption

Guidebook Chapters• 10 “Yet to be” Approved Chapters

– 1.A.1 Energy industries– 1.A.2 Manufacturing Industries and Construction (Combustion)– 1.A.4 Small combustion– 1.B.1.a Fugitive emissions from solid fuels - coal mining/handling– 2.A.7.c Storage, handling, transport of mineral products– 2.B Chemical industry– 2.C.1 Iron and steel production– 2.C.2 Ferroalloys production– 2.C.5.f Storage, handling, transport of metal products– 6.B Waste-water handling

– 11B Forest Fires, and Geological Seepage

• Extensive work conducted on all of these Chapters to bring them up to an acceptable standard.

Guidebook Chapters

• Edited Chapters (Already Approved)– 1.A.3b Road Transport

– 1.A.3a Aviation

– 2 Key Category Analysis

– 8 Projections

Maintenance Plan Items• As part of this update process, a number of items

have already been flagged as being allocated to the respective EP maintenance plans

Maintenance Plan: 1

• Short-term & Long-term• We need a plan that can be implemented now!• But with well thought through ideas ready to be

used if/when funds/support become available.

Maintenance Plan: 2

• Current Proposal for EPs• EPs to continue their work in much the same

way. But...• Capture GB updates in a standardised way• Capture “development” ideas in a

standardised way• ... and report these in a short annual workplan.

Maintenance Plan: 3a

• Other Priority Proposals• Better defined roles and responsibilities– TFEIP Executive– TFEIP Committee (Exec + EP Leaders)– EP Leaders– EEA- publishers of the Guidebook

Maintenance Plan: 3b

• Other Priority Proposals• Encourage greater participation/ support

from parties• EMEP SB “... invited the Task Force to present to it

at its thirty-third session a draft maintenance plan specifying tasks, responsibilities and estimated cost for the Guidebook maintenance”

• EMEP SB... “Called upon the Parties to the EMEP Protocol to consider making voluntary contributions to guarantee the provision of up-to date and good quality data;

Maintenance Plan: 3c

• Other Priority Proposals• Seek additional support for Comb & Ind. EP• Encourage greater participation in specific EPs

from industry• Further investigate the proposed EFDB work

by SYKE

Maintenance Plan: 4

• Longer-Term• Use the “development” plans to encourage

more participation/support• Look into opportunities of arranging more

centralised funding & party contributions.• We need to review the EP structure (a focal

point for Waste would be helpful).• We need to review whether an internet forum,

or EP e-mails would be helpful.

AIR POLLUTANT EMISSION FACTOR LIBRARY

Not possible to include all countries’ all sources/techniques/conditions/emissions in a GB Use of EFs that better reflect national conditions instead of defaults is encouraged

WOULD BE A COLLECTION OF REFERENCES FOR DEVELOPING NATIONAL EFs AND DISCOVERING SOURCES/EMISSIONS NOT YET INCLUDED especially in the energy / industrial processes/ solvent&product use sectors

WOULD INCLUDE EFs with• SOURCE, PROCESS TECHNIQUE + ABATEMENT INFO• COUNTRY/REGION where used• REFERENCES TO DOCUMENTATION • CAN EXCLUDE or INCLUDE GB VALUES (with clear reference/status indication)

No resources needed or extra work for the EPs SYKE offers to do the job with support from existing tasks e.g. OECD PRTR Resource Centre & communicate with other corresponding work (IPCC, EGTEI,..

Maintenance Plan: 5

EmissionFactor

Database

Expert PanelWokplan

Request for new

information

Offer of new information

Expert Panel

Consider requests

Collate New information

GuidebookManagement Board

Improvement Proposals

Amendments or Amended Chapter

Updated GB Text & Data

Accepted

EEA Website

Proposals Review

Improvement Project

Publish GB chapters and

data, with update logs

from EPs

TFEIP Workplan

EMEP SB

Recap

• All GB Chapters should now be at an acceptable quality standard– Please discuss details in the EP meetings

• A maintenance plan with few changes can be used now– First stages to be trialled in the EP meetings

• We have longer term ideas and aims, which are dependent on more support/funding– Please suggest other ideas in EPs or Plenary