21 December
2006 - This report is Denmark’s Annual Emissions Inventory
Report due May 2006 to the UNECE-Convention on Long-Range
Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP). The report contains
information on Denmark’s inventories for all years from
the base years of the protocols to 2004.
The gases reported under the LRTAP Convention
are SO2, NOX, NMVOC, CO, NH3 , As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Hg, Ni,
Pb, Se, Zn, dioxins/furans, PAHs, TSP, PM2.5 and PM10.
The issues addressed in this report
are: trends in emissions, description of each NFR category,
uncertainty estimates, recalculations, planned improvements
and procedures for quality assurance and control.
This report and the NFR tables are available
to the public on our emission pages.
Acidifying gases
In 11000, the relative contribution
in acid equivalents was almost equal for the three acidifying
gases. In 2004, the most important acidification factor
in Denmark was ammonia nitrogen and the relative contributions
for SO2, NOX and NH3 were 7 %, 38 % and 55 %, respectively.
However, regarding long-range transport of air pollution,
SO2 and NOX are still the most important pollutants.
Success with reduction of dioxin emissions
20 December 2006 - The Danish authorities
have had succes in reducing the atmospheric emissions
of dioxins. Since 11000, the total Danish emission have
been reduced to one third.
The present Danish dioxin air emission
inventory shows that the emission has been reduced from
68.6 g I-TEQ in 11000 to 22.0 g I-TEQ in 2004, or about
68% over this period. The major emission sources for 11000
were municipal waste incineration, steel reclamation and
residential wood burning, while in 2004 the major sources
had changed to residential wood burning and fires. Fires
include landfill fires and fires in buildings and vehicles.
Analysing and synthesising European
legislation in relation to water
21 December 2006 - The report introduces
the ecosystem based approach to integrated natural resource
management, which is behind the European Water Framework
Directive, and how former European legislation on water
is integrated into this framework. The approach implies
setting objectives for water bodies and the production
of management plans related to river basins. The aim is
to introduce the legislation, the ways that policy coherence
in the area of water management is met through the Framework
Directive, the measures that it prescribes, and the possible
gaps that may need to be addressed in the future. These
possible gaps are related to the actual implementation
of the water management plans. A successful implementation
implies an incorporation of water goals into sector policies,
such that tools and measures to secure the reduction of
pressures are available. It is a question if the instruments
in the legislation in combination with strategic environmental
assessment will secure this integration. Moreover, spatial
aspects of river basin management should be considered,
by facilitating interaction between physical planning
and water plans, and by gearing the institutional set-up
in this direction.
A survey of the national implementation
of the Water Framework Directive in countries around the
Baltic Sea considers some of these issues, and examples
of possible solutions are given.
The report concludes by highlighting
the need for further environmental integration in sector
policies as well as integration of water management plans
and physical planning, for the benefit of water goals,
as well as other environmental and land use management.
