Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases (AIR)
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.
AIR supports decision makers in devising smart solutions that deliver tangible benefits to diverse groups in society through innovative methodologies that bring together relevant insights from recent research on geo-physical, economic and social aspects of pollution control. In particular, AIR pioneers strategic research into a wide range of links between local air pollution and other policy objectives:
- A global perspective on air pollution
- Air quality-climate interactions
- Mitigation options for non-CO2 greenhouse gases
- The nitrogen cycle
- Local pollution management with global benefits
These research topics are addressed through specific projects, usually in close collaboration with partners that form a large international and multi-disciplinary scientific network.
Outcomes of the AIR project include:
- tools that explore cost-effective emission control strategies with multiple benefits for different parts of the world,
- policy reports that inform decision making at different scales,
- key findings that are relevant for smart decisions,
- scientific publications,
- access to global databases on emissions and air pollution.
Access to GAINS-online
PUBLICATIONS
Wamelink GWW, Mol-Dijkstra JP, Reinds GJ, Voogd JC, Bonten LTC, Posch M , Hennekens SM, & de Vries W (2020). Prediction of plant species occurrence as affected by nitrogen deposition and climate change on a European scale. Environmental Pollution 266: e115257. DOI:10.1016/j.envpol.2020.115257.
Ringkjob H-K, Haugan PM, Seljom P, Lind A, Wagner F , & Mesfun S (2020). Short-term solar and wind variability in long-term energy system models - A European case study. Energy 209: e118377. DOI:10.1016/j.energy.2020.118377.
Theurl MC, Lauk C, Kalt G, Mayer A, Kaltenegger K , Morais TG, Teixira RFM, Domingos T, et al. (2020). Food systems in a zero-deforestation world: Dietary change is more important than intensification for climate targets in 2050. Science of the Total Environment 735: e139353. DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139353.