EU maritime emission inventory

Construction of new maritime emission baseline projections from 2005 to 2050 for the EU and assessment of the impact of various emission abatement strategies

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 the 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 ships 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 estimation of 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 the distance from the shore. Regions which are candidates for new SECAs and NECAs will be treated separately in the scenario analysis.

reports

no report available yet

period

2011-2013

funded by

IIASA (subcontractor of VITO, subcontractor of IIASA)

researchers

Kris Vanherle

contact

Kris Vanherle

+32 16 31.77.38