IIASA has prepared a background report for the 49th meeting of the Working Group on Strategies and Review (Geneva, September 12-15, 2011) to inform negotiations on the revision of the Gothenburg Protocol about the scope for further environmental improvements. This report presents revised emission control scenarios that would achieve the environmental targets laid out in the earlier CIAM 1/2011 report, taking into account the latest updated information on national emission inventories and projections provided by Parties to the Convention on Long‐range Transboundary Air Pollution. Download report ...

Updated data sheets listing country-specific measures for the five policy scenarios are available here ...

Following the WGSR meeting the chair of the Task Force on Integrated Assessment Modelling has prepared tables giving emission reduction percentages for all ambition options on the basis of the emission data in CIAM report 4/2011.

A background paper prepared for the 14th meeting of the UNECE Task Force on Health describes a revised approach to the assessment of the health impact related to exposure to fine particulate matter in the GAINS model.  While the current GAINS assessment is based on all-cause mortality, the new approach employs cause‐specific concentration‐response relationships for lung cancer, cardio‐vascular and respiratory diseases for European countries.

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A background report for the 48th meeting of the Working Group on Strategies and Review of the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution has been prepared by IIASA to inform negotiations on the revision of the Gothenburg Protocol about the scope for further environmental improvements. The report presents a series of emission control scenarios that illustrate options for cost‐effective improvements of air quality in Europe.

Download report ... (This report is an updated version - v2.1 31st March 2011 - of the draft paper that has been presented to the 39th Meeting of the Task Force on Integrated Assessment Modelling). The report is also available in a Russian version (thanks to IVL, Sweden).

Download data sheet(s) with country-specific measures for the five policy scenarios ....