Mitigation of Air Pollution & Greenhouse Gases (MAG)

Around the world, MAG's systems approach is framing new policies that maximize co-benefits between air quality management, greenhouse gas mitigation and other policy priorities.

Smoke stacks

There are important interactions between climate and air quality strategies, and development, economic and social policy objectives. However, maximizing the potential co-benefits from these - well-documented - interactions poses a host of complex  challenges to decision makers. Unless put into context, these interactions could not only prohibit a cost-effective solution to both problems, but also lead to important trade-offs that unnecessarily waste important resources.

Model analyses, based on latest scientific findings and validated data, can provide valuable information on the design of (cost-)effective strategies that meet multiple policy objectives and yield potentially large economic synergies.

With an interdisciplinary team of researchers, MAG builds innovative methodologies that bring together relevant insights from recent research on geo-physical and economic aspects of pollution control. The program develops advanced analytical tools to identify pollution control strategies that put least burden to the economy while maximizing a wide range of environmental benefits. Together with a network of collaborators, MAG uses these tools to inform international negotiations and national planners in different regions of the world. 

Recent MAG Publications

Bond TC, Doherty SJ, Fahey DW, Forster PM, Berntsen T, DeAngelo BJ, Flanner MG, Ghan S, Kaercher B, Koch D, Kinne S, Klimont Z et al. (2013)

Bounding the role of black carbon in the climate system: A scientific assessment

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Article in press (Published online 15 January 2013) More

Klimont Z, Smith SJ, Cofala J (2013)

The last decade of global anthropogenic sulfur dioxide: 2000-2011 emissions

Environmental Research Letters, 8(1):014003 (9 January 2013) More

Lim SS, Vos T, Flaxman AD, Amann M et al. (2012)

A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990-2010: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

The Lancet, 380(9859):2224-2260 (15 December 2012) More



Print this page

Last edited: 30 January 2013

CONTACT DETAILS

Markus Amann

Program Leader Mitigation Of Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases

T +43(0) 2236 807 432

Access to GAINS-online

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
Schlossplatz 1, A-2361 Laxenburg, Austria
Phone: (+43 2236) 807 0 Fax:(+43 2236) 71 313

Twitter Facebook Youtube
Follow us on