Call for Data in ICP Materials

The Call was approved at the 1^st joint session of the Steering Body to the EMEP and the Working Group on Effects (Geneva, 14-18^th September 2015) and then launched in October 2015 and closed in June 2017.

Six Parties to the Convention (Croatia, Germany, Italy, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland) participated in the call by providing qualitative and quantitative data (materials, level of pollutants, meteo-climatic parameters) for in total twenty-one unique cultural objects located at UNESCO World Cultural Heritage sites. A wide range of materials (natural stone, artificial stone, copper, bronze, glass and others) and environmental conditions is represented in the selected sites.

More information can be found in Report No 80 Call for Data “Inventory and condition of stock of materials at UNESCO World Cultural Heritage sites, 2015-2017”. Part I. Status Report, September 2017, Report No 83 Call for Data “Inventory and condition of stock of materials at UNESCO world cultural heritage sites”. Part II – Risk assessment, September 2018, and Report No 86 Call for Data “Inventory and condition of stock of materials at UNESCO world cultural heritage sites”. Part III – Economic evaluation, September 2019 , see ICP Materials reports.

The next steps of the activities are oriented towards the assessment of the relative importance of individual pollutants and the effect of their reduction on the cost of pollution (2020) and the use of models with increased resolution to estimate damage to materials (2021).

For further information, please contact Teresa La Toretta at ENEA, Italy: teresa.latorretta@enea.it