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Within the ExternE project series funded by the EC a methodology for assessing external costs of energy use has been developed during the previous decade. It is now widely accepted and used. During the last years a number of improvements have been made, of which many of the users and stakeholders are not yet aware.
The European Commission is therefore funding the DIEM project as an accompanying measure under the 5th framework programme. The main objective of this DIEM workshop that took place in Brussels on 10th March 2004 has been to inform the most important European stakeholders on the currently best way to estimate external costs of electricity and transport with a common harmonized European methodology. The major sources for discussion and uncertainty - dose-response functions and monetary values - were recently discussed with major experts in these fields. The workshop particularly focussed on topics relevant to stakeholders and federations in the field of power generation and transportation. The workshop also provided a forum for discussing expectations and reservations, practical difficulties in applications or with the acceptance of the methodology. The final goal has been to make the ExternE methodology more accessible and making its strengths and possibilities in the line of stakeholders' work more apparent. |
Workshop Programme and Presentations |
| Wednesday 10th March 2004 | ||
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| 9:00 h | Registration and coffee | |
| 9:30 h | External costs: The EU content | Domenico Rossetti di Valdalbero European Commission, DG RTD |
| Part I - General overview of the ExternE methodology | ||
| 9:50 h | Advances of the ExternE methodology | Rainer Friedrich, IER, Germany |
| 10:10 h | The extended impact pathway approach | Leo de Nocker, VITO, Belgium |
| 10:30 h | Current position on health impacts | Fintan Hurley, IOM, UK |
| 11:00 h | Coffee break | |
| 11:15 h | Valuation of health impacts in ExternE | Tim Taylor, Alistair Hunt, Anil Markandya University of Bath, UK |
| 11:45 h | Other impacts and the way ahead | Ari Rabl, ARMINES, France |
| 12:10 h | Lunch break | |
| Part II - Applications and results | Chair: Rainer Friedrich, IER, Germany | |
| 13:00 h | General overview of ExternE results | Rainer Friedrich, IER, Germany |
| 13:25 h | Uncertainty of damage costs | Ari Rabl, ARMINES, France |
| 13:45 h | Electricity and transport related applications in the UK | Paul Watkiss, AEA Technology, UK |
| 14:10 h | Electricity and transport related applications in Belgium | Luc Int Panis, VITO, Belgium |
| 14:35 h | Coffee break | |
| 14:50 h | Transport applications for the EU | Catharina Sikow-Magny European Commission, DG TREN |
| 15:15 h | Work on EU air quality directives and recent developments in the CAFE programme | Mike Holland, EMRC, UK |
| 15:40 h | Discussion and questions | Moderator: Leo de Nocker, VITO |
| 16:25 h | Conclusions | Rainer Friedrich, IER |
| 17:30 h | The End |
