As part of the Clean Air For Europe (CAFE) programme, the so-called ‘City Delta project’ commenced in early 2002. The programme, as the name suggests, is designed to develop relationships between regional scale air quality levels and the levels found in cities using...
As our society becomes more sophisticated, complex and integrated, societal issues are increasingly interlinked and these relationships are also better recognised. Legislation has to follow suit and the impact of legislative measures needs to be considered within a...
In 2001, the UN-ECE set up the ‘Expert Group on Techno-Economic Issues’ (EGTEI) tasked with providing a comprehensive review of the European cost and effectiveness database for the abatement of emissions to air (SO2, NOx, VOCs and Particulate Matter). The main goal of...
Volume 13, issue no. 2: At the end of this year, Jean Castelein will leave CONCAWE as he reaches his well earned retirement from formal business life. Jean joined CONCAWE in December 2000 and has presided over an important period of activity for the association. The...
Although well researched in the past, there has been little recent work on fuel effects on driveability performance or evaporative emissions from European gasoline vehicles. Recently, the Biofuels Directive has stimulated interest in blending ethanol into...