An integrated assessment of regional air pollution and climate change
The results of the AIR-CLIM project have been published in a series of articles. This EU-funded project developed consistent long-term scenarios looking into the linkages between acidification, eutrophication and climate change. Part of the project looked into the coupling between climate change and regional air pollution in the environmental system and assessed quantitatively the impact of various linkages.
Climate change was not found to have a large impact on the spatial distribution of S and N deposition, whereas climate change reduced the sensitivity of ecosystems to S and N deposition (critical loads) by about 20-30% on the average. Regional air pollution and climate change were found to be much more strongly coupled in the policy environment. This encompasses two aspects. First, virtually all of Europe at mid-century might be affected by regional air pollution or climate change, or both. Second, climate policies were found to reduce the costs of controlling air pollution emission by more than 50%.
Articles in the special issue of "Environmental Science & Policy of August 2002
The research was carried by researchers from the RIVM together with those from the University of Kassel (Germany; project leader), CIEMAT (Spain) and TNO (Netherlands). The results are published in the following articles, which can all be found in the special issue of "Environmental Science & Policy of August 2002/
- Alcamo J, Mayerhofer P, Guardans R, Van Harmelen T, Van Minnen J, Onigkeit J, Posch M, De Vries B (2002) 'An integrated assessment of regional air pollution and climate change in Europe: findings of the AIR-CLIM project'. Environmental Science & Policy 5(4): 257-272.
- Mayerhofer P, De Vries B, Den Elzen M, Van Vuuren D, Onigkeit J, Posch M, Guardans R (2002) 'Long -term, consistent scenarios of emissions, deposition, and climate change in Europe'. Environmental Science & Policy 5(4): 273-305.
- Posch M (2002) 'Impacts of climate change on critical loads and their exceedances in Europe'. Environmental Science & Policy 5(4): 307-318.
- Guardans R (2002) 'Estimation of climate change influence of the sensitivity of trees in Europe to air pollution concentrations'. Environmental Science & Policy 5(4): 319-333.
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- Publication title
- An integrated assessment of regional air pollution and climate change in Europe: findings of the AIR-CLIM Project
- Publication date
- 1 August 2002
- Publication type
- Publication
- Magazine
- Environmental Science & Policy. Volume 5, Issue 4: 257-272
- Product number
- 90888