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Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollution Interactions and Synergies
Start date:2005-11-01
End date:2008-01-31
Project Acronym:GAINS-ASIA
Project status:Completed
Coordinator
| Organization name:INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEM ANALYSIS - IIASA | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Markus |
AIR POLLUTION Schlossplatz 1 LAXENBURG ÖSTERREICH Region:OSTÖSTERREICH NIEDERÖSTERREICH Wiener Umland/Südteil |
| Tel:+43-2236807432 | |
| Fax:+43-2236807503 | |
| E-mail: | |
| URL:http://www.iiasa.ac.at | Organization Type:Research |
Description
Objective:
GAINS-Asia brings together state-of-the-art disciplinary models on air pollution and climate change to assess technical and market based policies that maximize synergies and benefits between these policy areas. GAINS-Asia will integrate policy-relevant information from the BernCC carbon cycle model, the MESSAGE global energy scenario model, the RAINS air pollution integrated assessment model, its extension addressing mitigation potentials for greenhouse gas emissions in Europe, the TM5 hemispheric atmospheric chemistry and transport model, and the implementations of the MARKAL and IPAC energy models for India and China. GAINS-Asia will construct reduced-form representations of these models and combine these functional relationships at the meta-level into a new GAINS-Asia policy assessment framework. This tool will allow interactive analyses of the cost-effectiveness and benefits of a wide range of technical and market based policy options. Optimisation approaches will be developed to identify combinations of policies aimed at reducing long-range and hemispheric air pollution alongside with greenhouse gas emissions in order to optimise overall benefits in the medium and long term. GAINS-Asia will focus on near- to medium term policy measures for European and Asian countries that maximize synergies between these two policy areas, while embedding them in global strategies that would achieve stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the long-term. GAINS-Asia will be implemented for 43 European countries including Russia, and for China and India. To enable analyses in a global context, the rest of the world will be represented at an aggregated level. An interactive software will be developed that allows stakeholders to use GAINS-Asia over the Internet for exploring the interactions between air pollution and climate change for their own analyses.
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Project Details
Start date:2005-11-01
End date:2008-01-31
Duration:27 months
Project Reference:22652
Project cost:1161102 EURO
Project Funding:695000 EURO
Programme Acronym:
FP6-POLICIES
Programme type:Sixth Framework Programme
Subprogramme Area:Forecasting and developing innovative policies for sustainability in the medium and long term
Contract type:Specific Targeted Research Project
URL:http://www.iiasa.ac.at/rains/gains_asia/main/index.html?sb=1
Subject index:Social Aspects, Innovation, Technology Transfer, Evaluation, Education, Training, Policies, Coordination, Cooperation, Scientific Research
Other participants
| Organization name:UNIVERSITAET BERN | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Fortunat |
PHYSICS INSTITUTE / CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSICS Hochschulstrasse 4 BERN SCHWEIZ/SUISSE/SVIZZERA Region:ESPACE MITTELLAND Bern |
| Tel:+41-31-6314461 | |
| Fax:+41-31-6318742 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.unibe.ch | Organization Type:Education |
| Organization name:NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND REFORM COMMISSION ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Kejun |
ENERGY ENVIRONMENT B-1518, Jia.No.11, Muxidibeili, Xichengdist. BEIJING CHINA Region: |
| Tel:+86-1063908576 | |
| Fax:+86-1063908568 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.eri.org | Organization Type:Research |
| Organization name:COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES - DIRECTORATE GENERAL JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Franciscus |
INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY - CLIMATE CHANGE UNIT Rue de la Loi, 200 BRUSSELS BELGIQUE-BELGIË Region:REG.BRUXELLES-CAP./BRUSSELS HFDST. GEW. |
| Tel:+39-0332786392 | |
| Fax:+39-0332786291 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.jrc.cec.eu.int/ | Organization Type:Research |
| Organization name:THE ENERGY AND RESOURCES INSTITUTE | |
| Administrative contact | Address |
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Name:Ritu |
MODELLING AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS (INCLUDING GIS) Darbari Seth Block, Habitat Place, Lodi Road NEW DELHI INDIA Region: |
| Tel:+91-1124682100 | |
| Fax:+91-1124682144 | |
| E-mail:Contact | |
| URL:http://www.teriin.org | Organization Type:Research |
Record control number:75108
