PRTRval: a software tool for the validation of E-PRTR emissions data

Dios, M.; Morán, Marta; Carrera, Fabio; Pombo, Cesar; Souto, José A.; Casares, J.J.; Diaz, Agustín Ortiz; Saez, Aurora

doi:10.1504/ijep.2014.065901

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“…From this comparison, it is clear that cattle emissions have a strong contribution to EMEP S10 emissions. However, cattle farms are not included as activities in the E-PRTR (European Pollutants Releases and Transfer Register) inventory [25], which should also be systematically validated [27]. Activities in PRTR Category 7 cover livestock and intensive aquaculture; but, only pigs and poultry are included as livestock [28].…”

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Air pollutants emissions from cattle in Galicia, Spain

Morán

Gonzalez

Dios

2014

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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Cattle production has a significant contribution to the total GHGs emissions, particularly, CH 4 and N 2 O. Also, other air pollutants, as NH 3 and NMVOC, are emitted. As a European region with significant dairy and beef farms, Galicia (NW of Spain) is suitable to assess the contribution of cattle production to the regional livestock air pollutants emissions (namely, EMEP S10 in SNAP classification), considering up to date activity data. Therefore, the objective of this study is to update the annual emissions by dairy and beef cattle in Galicia, according to the different bottom-up methodologies: IPCC (Tier 1 and Tier 2) and EMEP/CORINAIR. This inventory is compared to both EMEP and E-PRTR emissions inventories: NH 3 cattle emissions are around half of EMEP S10, taking into account that EMEP S10 also includes other agriculture sources. NMVOCs cattle emissions are strongly higher than EMEP S10 emissions; moreover, there is no agreement in this region between S10 EMEP emissions and cattle farms geographical distributions. Besides E-PRTR does not include cattle farms emissions, CH 4 and NH 3 cattle emissions are 900 and 8 times higher than total current E-PRTR declared emissions at the same region: to add cattle farms in E-PRTR activities is highly recommended.

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