AARHUS MAY 2015 UNIVERSITY DCE – DANISH CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY INTRODUCTION TO HELCOM REDUCTION SCHEME AND POLLUTION LOAD COMPILATION ACTIVTIES - WHY IMPROVED DATA ON TRANSBOUNDARY INPUTS AND RETENTION ARE NEEDED LARS M. SVENDSEN, PLC PROJECT MANAGER, CHAIR OF REDCORE DG
AARHUS DCE – DANISH CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY UNIVERSITY POLLUTION LOAD COMPILATION - PLC › Introduce PLC activities within HELCOM with attention to the importance of transboundary inputs and retention › Briefly mention HELCOM Nutrient Reduction Scheme and the importance of transboundary inputs - Bo Gustafsson, BNI Stockholm in the next presentation will have focus on that very important issue › Pollution Load Compilation is an integral part of HELCOM assessment since 1987: focusing on annual and periodical assessment of air- and waterborne inputs and selected hazardous substances entering to the Baltic Sea: collection riverine, direct and atmospheric inputs to the Baltic Sea WS Transboundary inputs & retention 19.05.2015 May 2015 Lars M. Svendsen 2
AARHUS DCE – DANISH CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY UNIVERSITY Aims of PLC assessments : - Air and waterborne nutrient inputs - Time-series, trend and changes - Main pathways and sources - Evaluate effects of measures taken Assessing progress in fulfilling HELCOM nutrient reduction scheme WS Transboundary inputs & retention 19.05.2015 May 2015 Lars M. Svendsen 3
AARHUS DCE – DANISH CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY UNIVERSITY › HELCOM have two Recommendation (HELCOM “legal” acts) obliging Contracting Parties to monitor, collect and submit data for annual and periodic assessments: HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 24/1 1) Adopted 25 June 2003 having regard to Article 20, Paragraph 1 b) Airborne inputs : of the Helsinki Convention MONITORING OF AIRBORNE POLLUTION LOAD Waterborne inputs: HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 26/2 2) Adopted 2 March 2005 having regard to Article 20, Paragraph 1 b) of the Helsinki Convention COMPILATION OF WATERBORNE POLLUTION LOAD (PLC WATER) WS Transboundary inputs & retention 19.05.2015 May 2015 Lars M. Svendsen 4
AARHUS DCE – DANISH CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY UNIVERSITY › Regularly assessments on waterborne inputs started with PLC1 in 1987, since PLC2-PLC5. The latest PLC assessment – PLC5.5 was published earlier this year: › WS Transboundary inputs & retention 19.05.2015 May 2015 Lars M. Svendsen 5
AARHUS DCE – DANISH CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY UNIVERSITY › Some very few examples from the latest assessment (PLC-5.5) › – please note that in most figures we have allocated waterborne inputs to the country with the river outlet as we did not have the necessary information on transboundary inputs and on retention in surface waters of countries receiving transboundary inputs › On airborne inputs EMEP provide information on the source for deposition including inputs transboundary from countries outside EU, Baltic Se and North Sea shipping etc. › Quantifying transboundary waterborne inputs and the proportion of these reaching the Baltic Sea (retention remove some of the transboundary inputs) is a major challenge WS Transboundary inputs & retention 19.05.2015 May 2015 Lars M. Svendsen 6
AARHUS DCE – DANISH CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY UNIVERSITY WS Transboundary inputs & retention 19.05.2015 May 2015 Lars M. Svendsen 7
AARHUS DCE – DANISH CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY UNIVERSITY WS Transboundary inputs & retention 19.05.2015 May 2015 Lars M. Svendsen 8
AARHUS DCE – DANISH CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY UNIVERSITY NITROGEN, PHOSPHORUS AIR AND WATERBORNE INPUTS 2010 WS Transboundary inputs & retention 19.05.2015 May 2015 Lars M. Svendsen 9
AARHUS DCE – DANISH CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY UNIVERSITY WS Transboundary inputs & retention 19.05.2015 May 2015 Lars M. Svendsen 10
AARHUS DCE – DANISH CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY UNIVERSITY WS Transboundary inputs & retention 19.05.2015 May 2015 Lars M. Svendsen 11
AARHUS DCE – DANISH CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY UNIVERSITY PLC6 – TO BE PUBLISHED › Next PLC assessment on1995-2014 air- og waterborne nutrient data to be ready late 2016 › Focus on source apportionment, evaluation of effectiveness of measures including importance of transboundary inputs and retention › We hope to collect good information on transboundary inputs and retention WS Transboundary inputs & retention 19.05.2015 May 2015 Lars M. Svendsen 12
AARHUS DCE – DANISH CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY UNIVERSITY HELCOM REDUCTION SCHEME › Baltic Sea Action Plan 2007 decided on maximum allowable inputs (MAI) to the Baltic Sea that in the long run will would allow for fulfilment of eutrophication targets and the needed reductions in inputs compared with a reference period (1997-203) › The HELCOM ministers in 2013adopted a revised nutrient reduction scheme with revised MAI and new country allocated reduction targets (CART) › CARTS are based on the net input from the countries taking into account transboundary inputs between contracting parties and from countries (and sources) outside HELCOM. It takes also into account retention in receiving countries surface waters › Bo will tell more about MAI and CART but now follows a couple of extracts from the Ministerial Declaration in 2013 WS Transboundary inputs & retention 19.05.2015 May 2015 Lars M. Svendsen 13
AARHUS DCE – DANISH CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY UNIVERSITY WS Transboundary inputs & retention 19.05.2015 May 2015 Lars M. Svendsen 14
AARHUS DCE – DANISH CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY UNIVERSITY WS Transboundary inputs & retention 19.05.2015 May 2015 Lars M. Svendsen 15
AARHUS DCE – DANISH CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY UNIVERSITY WS Transboundary inputs & retention 19.05.2015 May 2015 Lars M. Svendsen 16
AARHUS DCE – DANISH CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY UNIVERSITY ASSESSING PROGRESS FULFILLING MAI AND CART › Extensive work on developing new PLC assessments products for the follow up on the progress in fulfilling MAI and CART › Core Pressure Indicator on Nutrient Inputs to follow-up MAI have been developed, finalized and approved WS Transboundary inputs & retention 19.05.2015 May 2015 Lars M. Svendsen 17
AARHUS DCE – DANISH CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY UNIVERSITY WS Transboundary inputs & retention 19.05.2015 May 2015 Lars M. Svendsen 18
AARHUS DCE – DANISH CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY UNIVERSITY WS Transboundary inputs & retention 19.05.2015 May 2015 Lars M. Svendsen 19
AARHUS DCE – DANISH CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY UNIVERSITY › CART assessment follow-up: draft finalized and forwarded (today) for HOD’s adoption in June 2015 › Will be accessible on HELCOM’s web -site together with the data › CART follows the national inputs (net inputs) by taking into account estimated transboundary inputs and estimated retention in catchment receiving these inputs WS Transboundary inputs & retention 19.05.2015 May 2015 Lars M. Svendsen 20
AARHUS DCE – DANISH CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY UNIVERSITY ASSESSING FULFILMENT OF NITROGEN CART 2012 Country/basin BOB BOS BAP GUF GUR DS KAT Denmark ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ 200000 Baltic Proper Estonia ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ 175000 Finland ↑ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ Germany ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ 2010-12 Ceiling 150000 Nitrogen (tonnes) Latvia 125000 Lithuania Poland ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ 100000 Russia Sweden ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ 75000 Belarus ↓ 50000 Czech Republic ↓ Ukraine ↓ 25000 Baltic Sea 0 shipping ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ Other countries ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ MAI ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ Country/basin BOB BOS BAP GUF GUR DS KAT Sum Denmark -29,4 -29,6 -26,1 -30,7 -29,4 -25,3 -20,2 -23,3 Estonia -1,8 -0,5 -21,0 3,3 -14,7 -13,0 -12,4 -6,6 Finland 6,2 -5,4 -25,3 -2,6 -24,8 -30,3 -30,6 -0,7 Germany -20,5 -21,7 -16,7 -22,0 -22,0 -11,2 -15,9 -15,4 Latvia 2,2 4,6 22,2 9,0 9,5 -5,7 -4,1 11,1 Lithuania -8,8 -8,8 -1,5 -6,3 6,7 -12,9 -12,0 -0,6 Poland -9,9 -9,7 -14,3 -9,3 -9,1 -12,4 -11,9 -14,1 Russia 29,4 26,4 4,4 3,1 10,7 5,7 9,1 4,1 Sweden -12,5 -7,6 -17,3 -20,8 -19,1 -19,1 -20,0 -15,1 Belarus -7,8 8,0 -1,4 Czech Republic -13,6 -13,6 Ukraine -13,6 -13,6 Baltic Sea shipping 22,0 19,5 15,8 19,7 19,0 14,8 16,5 16,8 Other countries -21,3 -22,3 -20,7 -23,0 -21,6 -20,5 -17,8 -20,8 MAI -1,1 -8,2 -12,7 0,3 3,2 -18,9 -19,1 -9,4 WS Transboundary inputs & retention 19.05.2015 May 2015 Lars M. Svendsen 21
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