Air Quality Management in North Rhine-Westphalia

Dr. Diana Hein, MUNLV NRW

Qualitat de l´aire, Barcelona, 17 June 2010

Highly industrialised•50 % of German energy production •Gross Domestic Product: 464 billion Euros

•Steelmaking location

Densely populated•18 million inhabitants, 527 inhabitants per km²

• Metropolitan region Rhine-Ruhr, 3rd biggest in Europe,11 million inhabitants

Traffic•8.8 million passenger cars and 0.5 million lorries

•Transit traffic

North Rhine-Westphalia

Cologne

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Air quality in NRW 2009 – PM10

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Air quality in NRW 2009 – NO 2

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Air Quality Plans

Implementation• District governments are responsible• Close co-operation between municipal

administration, the Environmental State Agency of North Rhine-Westphalia, producers of air pollutants and thirdparties concerned

Broad discussion and Co-operation• With stakeholders from industry

(dialogue), chambers of commerce, NGO‘s and others

June 2010• 16 air quality plans in force• 15 air quality plans in preparation

New Generation of Air Quality Planning- Regional Plan for the Ruhr Area -

� 1,500 km2 area� 3.3 million inhabitants� 13 towns

Air pollution does not stop atmunicipal boundaries!

Harmonised package of measures.

Package of Measuresfor the Ruhr Area

• Industry: renewal of plants, state of the art, reduction of dust emissionsfrom building sites,

• Traffic: renewal of private and publicvehicle fleets, route concepts forlorries, low emission zones

• Trade, business and private households : renewal of furnaces, energy-efficient construction and redevelopment

Low emission zones (environmental zones)� First implementation in Cologne

January 2008� 13 implemented in 15 municipalities� Vehicles without stickers are

banned� Exemption rules� Reduction of both PM10 and NO2

pollution� Faster renewal of private and public

vehicle fleet

Red EURO 2 diesel vehiclesYellow EURO 3 diesel vehiclesGreen >EURO 4 diesel vehicles

gasoline vehicles withcatalysators

Evaluation

All measures implemented arecontinously evaluated� Air quality monitoring� Development in the transport

sector� Exposure� Health effects

Regional Action Programme Environment and Health NRW (www.apug.nrw.de )

� Transport, environment and health- Working tools to improve the evaluation of technical

measures- Working tools for public relations on the context of

environment and health

� Planning procedures- Improving the interactions between different planning

procedures (spatial, town, traffic, air qualitymanagement, noise abatement)

How do European Regions cope with

the challenges arising from

air quality and noise targets

set by EU-COM ?

P R O N E T

� Exchange of experiences betweenEuropean Regionsand cities

� Networking

� Policyrecommendations

P R O N E T

http://www.umwelt.nrw.de/umwelt/umwelt_gesundheit/pronet/transport/index.php

Fact sheets

� Categories� Background� Measures� Results� Applicability� Contact

P R O N E T

Recommendations for future policies

� improving the harmonisation of EU policy strategies on air quality, noise, mobility management and urban environment

� closing the gap between emission standards and ambient air quality standards on EU level

� financial support for municipalities for the implementationof measures

� improving the knowledge on effects

P R O N E T

Air Quality Management in European Regions –challenges and success stories

� International Conference � Organisation: MUNLV NRW in cooperation with the

European Commission and the city of Essen� Essen, Cultural Capital of Europe 2010� 9th September 2010� Registration: www.team-red.net/airquality