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Support to the improvement of national air pollutant emissions inventories for the agricultural sector in Europe

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Administrative Arrangement DG JRC Air and Climate (C5) DG Environment Clean Air and Urban Policy (C3)
To improve the estimates of air pollutant and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agricultural activities we need transparent and harmonised emission inventories; also, we need to know how these estimates from such activities are performed and reported. This is important not only in relation to the direct impact of these activities, but also to understand their contribution in relation to other sectors such as energy, industrial processes, waste etc… The aim of this report is to provide an overview of the work done in supporting EU Member States (MS) to improve their national air pollutant emissions from agricultural activities. The work has started from the identification of methodologies and parameters needed to estimate air pollutant and GHG emissions from all agricultural sub-sectors, following the EMEP/EEA Guidebook and IPCC Guidelines. On the basis of this analysis, a database of agriculture air pollutant emission factors has been created together with a user-friendly web tool to estimate the emissions. The work done aims at providing to the EU Member States the knowledge and the actual tool neccessary to improve their reporting moving towards higher tiers methodologies. Moreover the methodology and the tool proposed will allow MS to develop air pollutant and GHG emission inventories in a consistent way using them for their reporting the template set under the Air Convention and referred to in the National Emission reduction Commitments Directive (NECD).
2022-03-25
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC128653
978-92-76-49350-1 (online),   
1831-9424 (online),   
EUR 31015 EN,    OP KJ-NA-31015-EN-N (online),   
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC128653,   
10.2760/188866 (online),   
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