The primary purpose of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) is to generate global environmental benefit. The essential path for achieving this goal is the financial support of projects whose completion delivers substantial, measurable reductions in greenhouse gases (GHG). This effort is a collaboration between the GEF and those applicants proposing projects designed to yield these benefits. This ...

The International Vehicle Emissions (IVE) Model is a computer model designed to estimate emissions from motor vehicles. The model is intended to help cities and regions develop emissions estimates to: • Focus control strategies and transportation planning on those that are most effective; • Predict how different strategies will effect local emissions; and • Measure progress in reducing emissions o...

The Greenhouse Gas - Air Pollution and Synergies Model (GAINS) explores cost-effective emission control strategies that simultaneously tackle local air quality and greenhouse gases so as to maximize benefits at all scales. GAINS provides an authoritative framework for assessing strategies that reduce emissions of multiple air pollutants and greenhouse gases at least costs, and minimize their negat...

BenMAP-CE is an open-source computer program that calculates the number and economic value of air pollution-related deaths and illnesses. The software incorporates a database that includes many of the concentration-response relationships, population files, and health and economic data needed to quantify these impacts....

BenMAP-CE is an open-source computer program that calculates the number and economic value of air pollution-related deaths and illnesses. The software incorporates a database that includes many of the concentration-response relationships, population files, and health and economic data needed to quantify these impacts....

The Low Emissions Analysis Platform (LEAP) is a widely-used software tool for energy policy, climate change mitigation and air pollution abatement planning developed at the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). LEAP has been adopted by thousands of organizations in more than 190 countries worldwide. Its users include government agencies, academics, non-governmental organizations, consulting compa...

This factsheet describes the key features of the LEAP-IBC tool. The Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning (LEAP) – Integrated Benefits Calculator (IBC) is an integrated planning tool to help governments jointly assess greenhouse gases, short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) and other air pollutant emissions; build mitigation scenarios; and understand how emission reductions benefit climate, heal...

The TM5-FASST tool, developed at JRC Ispra (Italy), allows to evaluate how air pollutant emissions affect large scale pollutant concentrations and their impact on human health (mortality, years of life lost) and crop yield. The tool is specifically designed to compare a scenario (policy case) with a counterfactual case (baseline). The target policy domains are national to regional air quality poli...

AirQ+ is a software tool for quantifying the health burden and impact of air pollution developed by the WHO Regional Office for Europe. AirQ+ includes methodologies to assess the impacts of short- and long-term exposure to ambient air pollution. The main methodologies use evidence generated by epidemiological cohort studies showing a relationship between average long-term air pollution concentrati...

Climate change mitigation policies that reduce emissions also improve air quality, bringing health co-benefits – the so-called Health Climate Bonus. The CLIMAQ-H software can be used to estimate the health and related economic gains achieved by Member States of the WHO European Region by implementing actions and measures aimed at mitigating climate change by reducing domestic carbon emissions. The...