The U.S. environmental protection Agency Integrated Environmental Strategies (IES) Program

摘要

Another approach that has been used in a number of Asian and Latin American countries to assess greenhouse gases, air pollution and other co-benefits is the Integrated EnvironmentaS Strategies (IES) program established in 1998 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. IES is designed to work with country officials to provide a framework and the associated models and tools to address co-benefits at a variety of scales - local, metropolitan region or national. IES has been used to quantify environmental (air quality and greenhouse gas), public health, and economic co-benefits of areas and/or projects of interest to the country in which it is being applied. It is also designed to help the country in question build expertise in integrated energy and environmental analysis, and promote local support for implementation of measures and policies with multiple benefits.rnUnlike GAINS, IES is not a model, but rather a framework that can be used to analyze co-benefits by organizing the approach and bringing together the necessary models and tools to address the specific issues of concern to the host country. Under the IES approach, in-country research teams, guided by policymakers and assisted by U.S. counterparts, identify key policy objectives and a range of conventional and innovative policy measures. The teams analyze the potential co-benefits of selected mitigation strategies and make recommendations to inform policy decisions.