Clean Air For Europe

Other Relevant Projects

Addressing the social dimensions of environmental policy: A Study on the linkages between environmental and social sustainability in Europe, 2007-2009
This project, which was led by AEA and included a number of partners, reviewed the linkages between the social and environmental pillars in order to identify ways in which synergies could be maximised and adverse impacts minimised. It included an analysis of inter alia: consumption expenditure by different socio-demographic groups (work package 1); a review of the literature on environmental inequalities (work package 2); reviews of the relevant EU and national policy frameworks and case studies of interesting national and local initiatives (work package 3); an investigation of possible integrated indicators for capturing the synergies between the social and environmental pillars; as well as policy recommendations.

European Consortium for Modelling of Air Pollution and Climate Strategies (EC4MACS), 2007-2010
This EU LIFE funded project brings together a consortium of institutions, including AEA and other members of the CAFE CBA consortium, to build and maintain a network of well established modelling tools for a comprehensive integrated assessment of the policy effectiveness of emission control strategies for air pollutants and greenhouse gases.

Evaluation of the costs and benefits of the implementation of the IPPC Directive on Large Combustion Plant (EC), 2007
AEA applied the CAFE CBA methodology in this study to assess the costs and benefits of different BAT associated emission levels. This report was supporting analysis for the IPPC Review.

Assessment of the benefits and costs of the potential application of the IPPC Directive (EC/96/61) to industrial combustion installations with 20-50 MW rated thermal input (EC), 2007
This report by AEA / Vito, as part of analysis supporting the IPPC review, provides an assessment of the costs and benefits of extending the scope of the IPPC Directive to include combustion installations in the range 20-50 MWth.

An evaluation of the Air Quality Strategy (UK), 2005
In January 2005, Defra commissioned AEA to undertake an evaluation of the Air Quality Strategy in order to evaluate selected air quality policies, in the road transport and electricity generator sector, from 1990 onwards. The main aims were to assess the cost-effectiveness in achieving air quality improvements, to assess the costs and benefits of these policies, and to evaluate how closely the actual out-turns of policies match the anticipated effect.

Damage costs of air pollution (UK), 2006
Report by AEA describes the approach and methodology used to derive the damage costs for air pollution for Defra as part of the Air Quality Strategy Review. Impacts and damages (£) per tonne for the pollutants PM10, SO2, NOx, and VOCs have been derived for the UK (for UK damages) accounting for variation in the location and type of emission.

Assessing how the costs and benefits of environmental policy change over time (EC), 2007
It has long been accepted that the projected costs and benefits of environmental policies made prior to the introduction of the policy (i.e. ex ante) are often very different, and frequently larger, than the evaluated costs and benefits after the implementation of the policy (i.e. ex post).  There are a range of potential reasons for these differences, which include operators finding innovative ways of implementing the measures, a realisation that there are wider costs and benefits that should have been taken into account in the original assessment, and a difference in the number of operators affected by the measures.  This project assessed the main causes of the inaccuracies and developed a methodology for the European Commission to take account of these inaccuracies when carrying out cost benefit assessments in the future.