Clean Air For Asia
Over the last 30 years, AIR was continuously collaborating with Asian partners to reveal the forthcoming pollution problems and build scientific capacity to identify practical solutions. Today, IIASA is a well-recognized partner in numerous research networks throughout Asia and serves on the Science Panel of the Asian-Pacific Clean Air Partnership (APCAP).
RAINS-Asia: The First Integrated Assessment of Air Pollution in Asia
Already in the early 1990s at the onset of Asia's rapid economic upswing, IIASA pioneered the first integrated analysis of the air pollution problem in Asia. With a large international network of scientific collaborators from 20 countries in Asia, the first 'RAINS-Asia' project raised awareness about the need to control SO2 emissions in order to protect the Asian ecosystems from acid deposition, as a consequence of the anticipated steep increase in coal consumption. More
GAINS-Asia: Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases in Asia
Between 2000 and 2010, the first GAINS-Asia project addressed the problems of growing NOx emissions in Asia and highlighted the potential co-benefits of clean air policies for greenhouse gas mitigation. More
The Model Intercomparison Study for Asia (MICS Asia|)
The MICS-Asia project brings together atmospheric modelers in order to develop a better common understanding of the performance and uncertainties of chemical transport models (CTMs) in East Asia and to build a modeling community in Asia. More
Pollution Management and Environmental Health
(PMEH)
Pollution is becoming an increasingly significant development challenge causing currently about 16% of all deaths worldwide with the poor, marginalized, and young hardest hit by the health effects of the contamination. More
Improving Air Quality in East and South Asia
Asia's rapid economic development has been accompanied by a steep deterioration of its air quality. IIASA partners with partners in China, India, Japan, Indonesia and Thailand to establish the scientific capacity in these countries to explore measures to combat air pollution while supporting the development agenda More
Air Pollution in India
Indian cities rank high in air pollution at the global scale. Since the 1990s, AIR is collaborating with Indian scientists to reveal innovative insights into the sources of pollution that are important in India, and to identify solutions that reinforce the development agenda. More
Air Pollution in China
Indian cities rank high in air pollution at the global scale. Collaborative studies using the GAINS model reveal innovative insights into the current sources of pollution that threaten the health of Indian citizens, and identify solutions that reinforce the development agenda. More
Air Pollution in Asia and the Pacific: Science-based Solutions
IIASA contributes to the first comprehensive, solution-oriented interdisciplinary scientific assessment of the air pollution outlook and policy measures in Asia, identifying the top 25 clean air measures for Asia that would deliver important co-benefits on a wide range of other development priorities. More
Pollution Management in the Hanoi Region
The fast economic growth in Vietnam’s urban areas and the the lack of control of polluting sources are causing public health problems and significant environmental degradation, including greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, undermining the potential for sustainable socioeconomic development of the country and impacting the poor. More
Biomass Burning in Asia
The burning of biomass in Asia – as a household cooking fuel, of agricultural residuals, and uncontrolled forest and peat fires – is an important impediment to development in Asia. Solutions require a systems perspective and international cooperation. More