EC4MACS
European Consortium for Modelling of Air Pollution and Climate Strategies

A project funded by the EU-LIFE program

Clean air and climate change are central fields of EU environmental policy. New scientific findings demonstrate important interactions and potentially large economic synergies between air pollution control and greenhouse gas mitigation. Model analyses, based on latest scientific findings and validated data, can provide valuable information for cost-effective policy strategies. The European Commission envisages for 2011/12 a review and revisions of their air quality legislation and the European Climate Change Programme.

The EC4MACS project brings together a consortium of institutions to build and maintain a network of well established modelling tools for a comprehensive integrated assessment of the policy effectiveness of emission control strategies for air pollutants and greenhouse gases.

With appropriate methological improvements and after a review of input data, the project will provide scientific and economic analyses for (i) the revision of the Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution in 2010/2011, and (ii) the European Climate Change Programme on policies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions beyond 2012. It will assess the costs and benefits of policy options to further improve air quality in Europe, taking full account of the synergies and trade-offs with greenhouse gas reductions, and explore country- and sector-specific mitigation potentials for the six Kyoto greenhouse gases and their interactions with air pollution control.

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The Internet consultation on the EC4MACS methodology has been started. Please return your comments on the methodology before June 15, 2009. More information ...