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About ETC/ACM

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 concisting of 10 European intitutions, builds on the experience gained by the former ETC, with a narrowed scope on climate change to just 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 analysis in a balanced way the causality chain of environmental policy making: Driving forces, Pressures, State, Impacts and Responses (DPSIR). The ETC/ACM activities are focused on two main policy processes and frameworks:

• Climate change mitigation:
  • EU's Climate action and renewable 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)
  • (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.

• Air pollution:
  EU's thematic strategy on air related to
  • Air quality, air pollutant emissions including their sectoral contributions, and the 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) and integrated assessment modeling (TFIAM)

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