Plenary Meeting, Lisbon, 27-28 April 2015 - presentations
Plenary Meeting, Lisbon, 27-28 April 2015
Agenda
Monday 27th April
Session 1: Welcome and views from multi-lateral agreements
Chair: Claudia Cordovil, University of Lisbon. Meeting host and co-chair of the UNECE Task Force on Reactive Nitrogen (TFRN)
| Talk 1 |
Opening Speech: Alexandra Carvalho, Secretary General, Ministry of Environment, Spatial Planning and Energy, Government of Portugal. “Challenges in Managing the Global Nitrogen Cycle.” (No pdf available) |
Following a brief introduction to their framework, each of the following speakers were asked to outline their priorities for how Towards INMS could support their policy process, and how their policy process could engage with Towards INMS.
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Talk 2 |
Anna Engleryd, Chair of the Executive Body of the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP). [Presented instead by Till Spranger] (No pdf available) |
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Talk 3 |
David Coates, Secretariat of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The Convention on Biological Diversity and the INMS. (pdf) |
| Talk 4 |
Christopher Cox, UNEP, Secretariat of the Global Programme of Action for the protection of the marine environment from land-based activities (GPA). Priorities on how the UNEP-GPA policy process will engage Towards INMS. 4. C.Cox_Priorities on how the UNEP-GPA policy process will engage Towards INMS.(pdf) |
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Greg Crosby, USDA, Chair of the Global Partnership on Nutrient Management (GPNM) [Presented instead by Chris Cox] How the GPNM framework will engage ‘Towards INMS’ (pdf) |
| Talk 6 |
Gerard Bonnis, Environment Directorate, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Human Impacts on the Nitrogen Cycle (pdf) |
| Talk 7 |
Isabelle van der Beck, UNEP. Implementing Agency of the ‘Towards INMS’ project and Steffen Hansen, Secretariat of the Global Environment Facility. What is the GEF? (pdf) |
| Talk 8 |
Peter Anura Jayatilake, Director General of the South Asian Cooperative Environmental Programme (SACEP). [Via weblink] (No pdf available) |
Session 2: Sharing the INMS vision and baseline activities
| Talk 9 |
Mark Sutton. Chair of the International Nitrogen Initiative (INI) and lead of the Towards INMS Executing Agency. “INMS Concept and Vision, science in support of international nitrogen policy development.” INMS concept & vision Science in support of international nitrogen policy development. (pdf) |
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Talk 10 |
Christopher Cox, UNEP. “Outcomes from relevant GEF projects, including the Global Nutrient Cycles project” (pdf) |
| Talk 11 |
Clare Howard, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, and Towards INMS Executing Agency. “Pump priming towards an International Nitrogen Management System (IMNSpp): Introduction” (pdf) |
| Talk 12 |
Albert Bleeker, Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) and INI Director of Operations “Developing global and regional nitrogen performance indicators. Stakeholder engagement and Future Earth.” (pdf) |
Session 3: Reflections and Engagement – Statements from Country Stakeholders
Chair: Wilfried Winiwarter, Director of the European Centre of INI.
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Till Spranger, German Ministry of the Environment, and Heidi Foth, German Advisory Council on the Environment: SRU report “Nitrogen – Strategies for resolving an urgent environmental problem” (pdf) |
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Talk 14 |
Shabtai Bittman, Canadian Department of Agriculture, Canada. Chair, UNECE-TFRN Expert Panel on Mitigation of Agric. Nitrogen (EPMAN) (pdf) |
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Talk 15 |
Jean Ometto, Brazilian National Space Agency, Brazil. Director of the Latin American Centre of INI. (pdf) |
| Talk 16 |
Cameron Gourley, Victorian Dept Economic Development, Australia. Reflections and Engagement – AUSTRALIA. A Contrasting Environment (pdf) |
| Talk 17 |
Jatish Chandra Biswas, Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, Bangladesh [presentation provided by Tapan Adhya] Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (pdf) |
| Talk 18 |
Xiaoyuan Yan and Xu Zhao, Institute of Soil Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China. Director of the East Asian Centre of INI. The nitrogen issue in China: N budget and fertilizer N use efficiency (pdf) |
| Talk 19 |
Cargele Masso, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Kenya, Director of the African Centre of INI. Too little N and environmental threats in Africa – a consensus (pdf) |
Session 4: Reflections and Engagement – IGOs, Business and NGOs
Chair: Jean Ometto, INI Regional Director for Latin America
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Talk 20 |
Alexander Baklanov, World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) Programme: addressing nitrogen (pdf) |
| Talk 21 | Jacob Hansen, Director General, Fertilizers Europe (No pdf available) |
| Talk 22 |
Patrick Heffer, Senior Director, International Fertilizer Manufacturers Association (IFA) (No pdf available) |
| Talk 23 | Cliff Snyder, International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) (No pdf available) |
| Talk 24 | Barbara Nave, Functional Crop Care team, BASF 25. Sustainable solutions for nitrogen management. (No pdf available) |
| Talk 25 |
Gabriela Soto, International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements, and National University of Costa Rica (No pdf available) |
| Talk 26 | Henning Steinfeld, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (No pdf available) |
| Talk 27 | Joao Breda, Programme Manager, Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, World Health Organization (WHO) (No pdf available) |
| Talk 28 |
Mark Sutton, INI: “A possible architecture in Towards INMS for stakeholder involvement and relationship to international policy frameworks” (No pdf available) |
Session 5: Science Examples and Nitrogen Dating
Chair: Mark Sutton, INI: In this session speakers are asked to reflect on an example area of nitrogen science and show how it could contribute to the work of Towards INMS.
| Talk 29 | Benjamin Bodirsky, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany: “Flows and scenario options in the global nitrogen cycle” (pdf) |
| Talk 30 |
Pedro Pinho/Teresa Dias, Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon, Portugal: “Assessing and attributing N impacts in Portugal” (pdf) |
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Michelle McCrackin, Stockholm University Baltic Sea Centre, Sweden: “Science to inform nitrogen policy in the Baltic” (pdf) |
| Talk 32 |
Brian Kronvang, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Denmark: “Science to address multiple causes of N pollution: from source to sea” (pdf) |
| Talk 33 |
Xiaotang Ju, China Agricultural University: “Agronomic opportunities to reduce agricultural nitrogen pollution” (pdf) |
| Talk 34 |
Clare Stirling, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), CGIAR: “Improving estimates of nitrous oxide emissions from wheat- and maize-based systems” (pdf) |
| Talk 35 |
Pierre Cellier, National Institute of Agronomic Research (INRA), France. “Nitrogen research at INRA as a contribution to Towards INMS” (pdf) |
| Talk 36 |
Wilfried Winiwarter: International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA): “The GAINS model and future global application for nitrogen.” (no pdf available) |
| Talk 37 |
Baojing Gu, Zhejiang University, China. “Cost-benefit analysis for nitrogen threats and opportunities in China” (pdf) |
| Talk 38 |
David Kanter, The Earth Institute, Columbia University, USA: “Analysis of policy options linking nitrogen, nitrous oxide and the Montreal Protocol.” (pdf) |
Structured Discussion: The Nitrogen Dating Game.
Clare Howard, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Introduction to the Nitrogen Dating Game: Organizing INMS to support global and regional nitrogen policy (pdf)
Breakout into the Nitrogen Dating Game: (rapporteurs for each component in parenthesis)
- Policies and Analysis of Nitrogen Strategies (PANS): (Till Spranger)
- Fluxes and Levels Assessment Group (FLAG): (Will Brownlie)
- Sustainability and Threats Assessment Group (STAG): (Cargele Masso)
- Budgets and Indicators Development (BID): (Albert Bleeker)
- Costs and Benefits Assessment Group (CBAG): (Baojing Gu)
- Societal & Technical Options Responses Group (STORG): (Clare Howard)
Tuesday 28th April
Session 6: Regional Demonstration and other aspects of the project.
Chair: Cargele Masso: INI Regional Centre Director for Africa
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Talk 1 |
Mark Sutton, INI: “Introduction and Criteria for INMS Regional Demonstrations” (No pdf available) |
General Discussion, clarifying the role of the regional demonstrations Document
Parallel Working Groups
| WG1: East Asia |
WG Chair: Albert Bleeker, INI Director of Operations Presentation: Xiaoyuan Yan (INI Regional Director East Asia) |
| WG2: South Asia |
WG Chair: Greg Crosby, GPNM Chair Presentation: N. Raghuram (INI Regional Director South Asia) |
| WG3: Latin America |
WG Chair: Claudia Cordovil, TFRN Co-chair Presentation: Jean Ometto (INI Regional Director L. America) |
| WG4: East Africa |
WG Chair: Chris Cox, UNEP GPA and GPNM Secretariat Presentation: Cargele Masso (INI Regional Director Africa) |
| WG5: East Europe |
WG Chair: Tommy Dalgaard, TFRN Co-chair Presentation: Lidiya Moklyachuk and Serge Medinets, Expert Panel on Nitrogen in EECCA countries. |
Feedback from Parallel Working Groups and discussion (moving toward agreement on the selection of demonstration areas)
General discussion: priorities and challenges for the regional demos
Session 7: Summing up INMS Approach and relationship with global and regional inter-governmental processes.
Chair: Anna Engleryd, Chair of LRTAP Convention
General discussion on direction setting, priority needs and approaches
Relationship between eventual INMS and inter-governmental processes.
Session 8: Developing INMS Procedures
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Chair: Mark Sutton, INI, Towards INMS team
(No pdf available) |
| Talk 1.S8 |
Peter Whalley (CEH consultant, Towards INMS team)
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| Talk 2.S8 |
Clare Howard, INMS Towards INMS team
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| Talk 3.S8 |
Agnieszka Becher, INMS Towards INMS team
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General Discussion and agreements
- Proposal for Agreement on Towards INMS mission statement
- Proposal for Agreement on Selection of Regional Demonstration Areas
- Proposal for Agreement on Governance and Management Structures
Following this Session 8 the following extra presentations were made, as time was available.
Sara Walker WRI. WRI and Towards inms first plenary meeting (pdf)
Ying Zhang. School of Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University. Wetlands into Considered as both Sources and Sinks (pdf)
Gulay Besirili. Ataturk Central Horticultural Research Institute. Minsitry of food, agriculture and livestock (pdf)
Theodore Karyotis. Institute for Soil Mapping and Classification. Rational Nitrogen Fertilization Plans for selected crops in dry and wet regions of Turkey (pdf)
Continuation on General Discussion and Agreements
Sharing information on the future calendar (2015-2019)
Reviewing action points and any other business
Close of meeting
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