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SUMMARY:Air Quality in Europe – developing tools to support regional and
  urban strategies
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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Emanuela Peduzzi\nJoint Research Center of the European Co
 mmission (JRC)\nAir quality in Europe has improved over the recent decades
  because of substantial reductions of emissions of many pollutants. Howeve
 r\, it is estimated that a relevant proportion of the European population 
 is still exposed to harmful levels of air pollution and that PM2.5 alone a
 ccounts for about 390000 premature deaths in the EU28 [1]. Worldwide this 
 number rises to an estimated 4.2 Million premature deaths with 59% of thes
 e occurring in East and South Asia [2].\nEuropean Directives address the i
 ssue of air quality by setting limit values to concentrations\, establishi
 ng national emission ceilings for emissions of pollutants and source speci
 fic emission standards. Member states are required to assess and monitor a
 ir quality and\, in case of non-compliance\, to design appropriate Air Qua
 lity Plans (AQP) and cooperate with other member states to reduce air poll
 ution.\nThis seminar will present SHERPA (Screening for High Emission Redu
 ction Potentials for Air quality) [3]\, a tool developed at the Joint Rese
 arch Centre (JRC) to support air quality plans. SHERPA relies on spatially
  flexible cell-to-cell source receptor relationships (SRR) [4] as a surrog
 ate to complex chemical transport models. It allows users to differentiate
  the effects of emissions reductions scenarios by sector (such as energy\,
  residential\, traffic\, agriculture etc.) and for any given area (ranging
  from the country scale to the local/regional scale). SHERPA can estimate 
 the urban background concentration response on a 7 x 7 km2 grid covering E
 urope of Particulate Matter (PM2.5\, PM10) and NO2. Based on SHERPA\, an A
 tlas of Air quality in 150 European cities has been published showing\, fo
 r each urban area\, the geographical and sectoral contribution to PM2.5 co
 ncentrations [5]. SHERPA is currently being developed to provide a direct 
 evaluation on the impacts (i.e. on health) and improve the definition of t
 he emission reductions considering a more detailed breakup of the sectors.
 \n \nBio: \nAfter a PhD in Energy Engineering at Ecole Polytechnique Féd
 érale de Lausanne\, in collaboration with the French Atomic and Alternati
 ve Energy Commission (Grenoble)\, I joined the Joint Research Centre of th
 e European Commission in Italy as a Contract Agent. My doctoral and post-d
 octoral research concerned the evaluation and optimization of energy conve
 rsion systems\, both at the process scale and at the energy system scale. 
 Now I am looking at the impacts of emissions\, generated in great part by 
 these same processes\, on the air we breathe. In the Air and Climate Unit\
 , I am involved in the development of tools to support plans to improve ai
 r quality. In particular\, I am contributing to the SHERPA tool – Screen
 ing for high Emission Reduction Potential for Air quality - for the evalua
 tion of actions and measures carried out at the local scale. My current in
 terests concern the health impacts of air pollution and integrated assessm
 ent models. \n\nReferences:\n[1] European Environment Agency\, “Air qua
 lity in Europe - 2018 report\,” Publications Office of the European Unio
 n\, 2018.\n[2] A. J. Cohen et al “Estimates and 25-year trends of the gl
 obal burden of disease attributable to ambient air pollution: an analysis 
 of data from the Global Burden of Diseases Study 2015.\,” Lancet (London
 \, England)\, vol. 389\, pp. 1907–1918\, May 2017.\n[3] P. Thunis\, B. D
 egraeuwe\, E. Pisoni\, F. Ferrari\, A. Clappier\, On the design and assess
 ment of regional air quality plans: The SHERPA approach\, Journal of Envir
 onmental Management 183 (2016) 952-958\n[4] E. Pisoni\, A. Clappier\, B. D
 egraeuwe\, P. Thunis\, Adding spatial flexibility to source receptor relat
 ionships for air quality modeling\, Environmental Modelling & Software\, 9
 0 (2017) 68-77\n[5] P. Thunis\, B. Degraeuwe\, E. Pisoni\, M. Trombetti\, 
 E. Peduzzi\, C. A. Belis\, J. Wilson\, A. Clappier\, and E. Vignati\, “P
 M2.5 source allocation in European cities: A SHERPA modelling study\,” A
 tmos. Environ.\, vol. 187\, pp. 93–106\, Aug. 2018.\n\n \n \n \n 
LOCATION:I13 001 Grand Dixence https://plan.epfl.ch/?room=I13001
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