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...

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...

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 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...

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 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 ...

TEEMP is a suite of excel-based, free-of-charge, suite of spreadsheet models and methods that can be used to evaluate the greenhouse gas (GHG), air pollution, and other impacts of many types of transportation projects. The TEEMP tools were initially developed by the Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities (CAI-Asia) and Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) for evaluating the em...

The report by the Programme Coordinating Centre of the International Cooperative Programme on Assessment and Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects on Forests (ICP Forests) details recent findings on the impact of air pollution on European forests. Despite significant changes since the 1980s, air pollution, particularly nitrogen deposition and tropospheric ozone, continues to affect forest ecosystems...

The report begins with a general overview of the basics behind the nature and science of visibility. Included in this section is a discussion on what causes visibility impairment, how visibility is impaired, how humans perceive visibility impairment, and how it is measured. The second section presents both historical trends on national visibility and examples of visibility degradation at specific ...