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Introduction
The European Topic Centre on Air Pollution and Climate Change Mitigation (ETC/ACM) is the successor of the former (2001 – 2010) European Topic Centre on Air and Climate Change (ETC/ACC).
As of January 1. 2011, the ETC/ACM, a consortium consisting of 12 European institutes, builds on the experience gained by the former ETC, with a narrowed scope on climate change mitigation. The area of climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation is included in the new self standing ETC on Climate Change Adaptation (ETC/CCA).
The main task of ETC/ACM is to assist EEA in supporting EU environmental policy and legislative frameworks and to allow for adequate responses to emerging needs. Such support involves improving the reporting of monitoring and inventory data, information dissemination, and integrated assessments. To this end ETC/ACM analyses in a balanced way the causality chain of environmental policy making: Driving forces, Pressures, State, Impacts and Responses (DPSIR). The ETC/ACM activities focus on two main policy processes and frameworks:
- Climate change mitigation:
- EU's Climate Action and energy package, with its
- Emission Trading System (EU ETS) including aviation
- Efforts Sharing Decision
- Renewable energy Directive
- Directive on carbon capture and geological storage of CO2 (CCS)
- Support in legislative reporting on Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) and Fluorinated gases (F-gases)
- Legislative greenhouse gas (GHG) monitoring and reporting commitments to the EU and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC/Kyoto Protocol). ETC/ACM supports several Working Groups under the EU Climate Change Committee.
- EU's Climate Action and energy package, with its
- Air pollution:
- EU's Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution and its 2011-2013 policy review related to:
- Air quality
- Air pollutant emissions, including their sectoral contributions
- Transport-related air policy measures
- Air pollution impacts on ecosystems and human health
- The UNECE-Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution (UNECE-LRTAP) with its task forces, such as emission inventories and projections (TFEIP), modeling and measurements (TFMM), hemisphere transport (TFHTAP) and integrated assessment modeling (TFIAM)
- EU's Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution and its 2011-2013 policy review related to:
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