30 - Audio Interview - 10 June 2010

Fabian Wagner

IIASA: Climate change - Copenhagen to Cancun

Listen [MP3; 8:10min; 7.6MB]

Summary

Fabian Wagner is a Senior Research Scholar in IIASA’s Atmospheric Pollution and Economic Development Program and co-Leader of IIASA's Greenhouse Gas Initiative. In this interview he discusses the Copenhagen Accord, the upcoming COP16 meeting in Cancun, and the many options available for countries and individuals to tackle GHG emissions.

Speaker Biography

Fabian Wagner is a Senior Research Scholar in IIASA's the Atmospheric Pollution and Economic Development Program and co-Leader of IIASA's Greenhouse Gas Initiative. For the past 10 years he has been involved in the development and application of integrated models to inform air quality and greenhouse gas mitigation strategies, and is a major contributor to the development of the IIASA GAINS (Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollution Interactions and Synergies) model. He has been a consultant for the IPCC and an author of past IPCC reports.

His expertise ranges from integrated assessment modeling covering energy, socio-economic, biophysical and chemical dimensions, to the economics of climate change mitigation and co-benefit analysis. He has developed the optimization modules of the RAINS/GAINS model family, which have been used in a number of policy applications in Europe and Asia for designing clean air and greenhouse gas mitigation policies. For the development of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National GHG Inventories, he has served as a Lead Author (Energy) and Contributing Author (Waste). His current research interests also include risk and uncertainty.

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