Section on Emissions, Sustainability and Risk Analysis

Research

The inter-disciplinary scientific expertise within the group focuses on spatial and temporal analysis of environmental (un-)sustainability of systems within defined boundaries of interaction between man and nature, environment and community. In depth studies of point and area sources of emissions and risk assessment, site specific exposure scenarios and effects on ecosystems and human health. Group working on sustainability analysis of community activities across sectors with a focus on reducing the effects of climate and environment. Scenario descriptions, intensive and extensive quantitative measures within defined system boundaries are key expertices. Within defined system boundaries modelling of emissions, eco-and energy efficiency of existing and future technologies are performed. Life cycle analysis, eg carbon footprint, as well as energy, material and substance flows in a land use context, eg ecological footprint, forms part of interdisciplinary research area. Emissions risk and environmental sustainability analysis of ecoindustrial systems with reference to conventional industrial parks are one of the main research areas of the group.

The group aims at integrating health-improving ecoindustrial technologies hypothesized to result in positive externalities in terms of remediation of the natural environment, lowered resource consumption and emissions and increased energy efficiencies.

The group aims at developing of sustainability indicators for integrated environmental planning through elements from different methodological approaches such as eMergy evaluations, LCA, Environmental accounting etc.

Teaching

• Contributes to the Master in Strategic Environmental Management, Padouva, Italy.
• Contributes strongly to the applied Master of Risk Management and Environmental Health.
• Contributes to the teaching at the Global Nutrition and Health, Metropolitan University College Copenhagen.
• Contributes to the teaching in LCA and environmental sustainability, Biorefinery Course, DTU.
• Teaching of municipalities in the use of municipal CO₂ computes

Public Sector Consultancy

The group is responsible for the official Danish emission inventories for respectively. Ministry of Environment and Climate and Energy Ministry in accordance with Denmark's obligations in international conventions, UNFCCC, including the Kyoto Protocol, UN Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution transported and EU directives. 

The group advises the ministries regarding international negotiations on air emissions, contributes to the development of international guidelines for estimating emissions to air and participates in UN international expert groups by performing reviews of the countries' inventories. Collection and validation of data, development documentation and implementation of methods and models of the emission inventories covering the sectors: Energy, transport, industry, solvent, agriculture, land use and waste. As a result of Denmark's commitment to KP Article 3.4, the group has contributed to the development and implementation of a methodology for calculating CO₂ sequestration in soil.

The Group prepares the official Danish emission projections which includes the estimated impact of adopted policies. Emission expert knowledge is an integral part of multidisciplinary research projects involving environmental economics, air quality, human health and environmental sociology, in which baseline and hypothetic emission projection scenarios are central calculations for the evaluation instruments for the realisation of reduction strategies. The department is responsible for advising the European Environment Agency within the European Climate Topic Centre framework contract. In addition, the department advises domestic and foreign authorities and companies within the field of human and environmental risk analysis and contaminants of emerging concern within a sustainable development context.