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 of Call for Data “Inventory and condition of stock of materials at UNESCO World Cultural Heritage sites, 2015-2017”: Report No 80 Part I. Status Report (2017); Report No 83 Part II – Risk assessment (2018); Report No 86 Part III – Economic evaluation (2019); Report No 89 Part IV – Relative importance of individual pollutants and the effect of their reduction on the damage cost for selected UNESCO sites (2020); Report No 90 Part V – Application of models with increased resolution in the study of damage at selected UNESCO sites - Campania, Italy (2021); Report No 93 Part VI – The relationship between the environment and the artefact (2022); Report No 96: Part VII – Application of models with increased resolution in the study of damage at selected UNESCO sites – Switzerland (2023); and Report No 98 Part VIII – Risk assessment for selected monuments based on retrospective trends in 2000, 2010 and 2020 and EMEP 01°x 01° data (2024) [see ICP Materials reports].

The next steps of the activities are oriented towards the assessment of trends of cost damage due to air pollution on the materials constituting the selected UNESCO monuments based on previous report results (2025).

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