Fabian Wagner Atmospheric Pollution & Economic Development Program, IIASA "Clean Air and Development"
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Scientific assessment has been key to designing air quality standards in developed countries. After briefly assessing the success of IIASA's RAINS model for analyzing strategies to reduce acidification, eutrophication, and ground-level ozone in Europe, Dr. Fabian Wagner of IIASA’s Atmospheric Pollution and Economic Development (APD) Program will look at the pressing air quality challenges being faced by developing countries. For example, in Asia, per capita sulfur emissions are lower than in Europe, but the higher population densities make remediation urgent. Dr. Wagner will present new results from the GAINS model developed with partner institutions in China and India, showing how simultaneous strategies addressing air pollutants and greenhouse gases are proving both effective and cost-efficient in Asia. This integrated approach is also seen as a way of advancing climate change mitigation on a global scale.

Short biography:

Fabian Wagner is coordinating the greenhouse gas related activities within the Atmospheric Pollution and Economic Development Program (APD), including the GAINS model. He is also scientific coordinator of the Policy Assessment Framework within IIASA's Greenhouse Gas Initiative (GGI) and has developed the new optimization module of the RAINS model for the Clean Air For Europe (CAFE) scenarios. For the development of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National GHG Inventories he has served as a Lead Author (Energy) and Contributing Author (Waste).

Before joining IIASA in 2004, Dr. Wagner worked at the IPCC National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Programme at the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) in Hayama, Japan, after he had been a researcher with the International Energy Analysis Group the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), California, and the International Climate Policy group at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA), Germany. He has also spent time in Bonn consulting for the Methodology Programme of the UNFCCC secretariat.

Between 1992 and 1995, Dr. Wagner studied physics at the University of Göttingen, Germany. He then moved to Trinity College/University of Cambridge, UK, from where he obtained the Certificate of Advanced Studies in mathematics ('Part III', 1996), a master's degree in history and philosophy of science (1997), a diploma in Russian (1999), and finally a PhD in theoretical physics (2001) with a thesis on exactly solvable models and the representation theory of Yang-Baxter algebras.

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