Maritime emission control areas

The provision of quantitative input for the assessment of additional SECAs and NECAs

The European Commission will assess the possibility for establishing additional sulphur emission control areas (SECAs), new NOx emission control areas (NECAs) and emission limit values for particulate matter such as black carbon for marine sources. To provide quantitative input to such an assessment, a team involving TML will revise and update current information on emissions from ships, develop scenarios for the reduction of ship emissions in particular sea areas, and assess their consequences in terms of costs and benefits.

TML’s main role is to update the base year emission inventory for ship emissions and develop emission scenarios up to 2050. Scenarios will include emissions of SO2, NOx, PM2.5, PM10, and BC. A second task TML is involved in is the estimation of the costs of reducing emissions for each scenario.

Calculations cover the following sea regions within the EMEP grid: Baltic Sea, North Sea (with English Channel), North East Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea. In addition, these sea areas are divided into sub-regions, depending on distance from shore. In the scenario analysis regions, which are candidates for new SECAs and NECAs, will be treated separately.

reports

no reports available yet

period

2011-2013

funded by

European Commission, DG ENV

researchers

Kris Vanherle

partners

The International Institute for Applied Analysis (AT), VITO (BE), INERIS (FR), EMISIA (GR), NTUA/ICCS (GR), met.no (NO), ALTERRA (NL), RIVM/CCE (NL), EMRC (UK)

contact

Kris Vanherle

+32 16 31.77.38