In many parts of Asia, the single greatest threat to human health and a sustainable future is air pollution. A growing body of modelling research have employed emissions inventories, scenario development, and benefit estimation techniques to identify technological and behavioral changes that can limit that threat. However, there can be a disconnect between scientifically based models and the policies they seek to influence. This workshop provided learning opportunities on the state-of-the-art modelling analysis that can strengthen the science-policy interface for clean air in Asia.
Session I “Multiple development benefits of coordinated actions to tackle air pollution”, jointly organized by the Acid Deposition Monitoring Network in East Asia (EANET) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), presented the modelling analysis employed by a project activity of EANET along with modelling analysis results from ongoing collaborative research projects between IIASA and the Ministry of the Environment of Japan (MOEJ) on multiple development benefits of coordinated actions to tackle air pollution.
Session 2 “Exploit synergetic linkages among SDGs” presented modelling analysis results from ongoing collaborative research projects between IIASA and MOEJ on synergies of achieving several sustainable development goals.
Session 3 “How to implement and promote a science-policy dialogue” discussed how we can design science-policy dialogue to reflect implications from modelling analysis to policy development and to co-design models by incorporating social and institutional dimensions of feasibility.
Event Details
Online
Secretariat for Japan Committee for IIASA
(Institute for Global Environmental Strategies)
Email: [email protected]
Presentation Materials
| 13:30-13:35 | Opening remarks | Yasuo Takahashi, Executive Director, IGES, Japan | |
| Bert Fabian, Coordinator, Secretariat for the EANET | |||
| 13:35-14:30 |
Session 1
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| Assess to air pollution by EANET: Introduction on projects in 2022 and 2023 in relation with perspective of EANET Ken Yamashita, EANET Network Center, Japan |
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| Interactions between urban and rural air pollution in Asia (tentative title. progress of MOEJ-IIASA collaborative research project A) Zbigniew Klimont, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria |
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| Seeking cost-effective solutions for air pollution in Asia Eric Zusman, Research Leader, Integrated Sustainability Centre, IGES, Japan |
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| Comment Hajime Akimoto, NIES, Japan |
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| Q&A | |||
| Moderator: | Kenichiro Fukunaga, EANET Network Center, Japan | ||
| 14:30–14:35 | Short break | ||
| 14:35-15:50 |
Session 2
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| Progress of MOEJ-IIASA collaborative research project B Keywan Riahi, Program Director and Principal Research Scholar, Energy, Climate, and Environment Program, IIASA, Austria |
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| Accounting synergies of multiple SDGs: AIM approach (tentative title) Shinichiro Fujimori, Kyoto University, Japan |
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| Sustainable energy-food-water and health nexus solutions enhancing regional community-based supply chain systems post-Covid-19 in Bhutan (tentative title) Miho Kamei, Integrated Sustainability Centre Policy Researcher, IGES, Japan |
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| Comment Mikiko Kainuma, Research Advisor, IGES, Japan |
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| Q&A | |||
| Moderator: | Satoshi Kojima, Programme Director, Kansai Research Center, IGES, Japan | ||
| 15:50-15:55 | Short break | ||
| 15:55-16:55 |
Session 3
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| Panelists: | Le Ngoc Cau, Director, Center for Environmental Research, Vietnam IMHEN, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Vietnam | ||
| Bert Fabian, Coordinator, Secretariat for the EANET | |||
| Zbigniew Klimont, IIASA, Austria | |||
| Keywan Riahi, IIASA, Austria | |||
| Q&A | |||
| Moderator: | Eric Zusman, Research Leader, Integrated Sustainability Centre, IGES, Japan | ||
| 16:55-17:00 | Closing Remarks | Kenichiro Fukunaga, EANET Network Center, Japan | |
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