The Greenhouse Gas Initiative (GGI) is a inter-program research activity that addresses questions critical to understanding and responding to the challenges of climate change.

It is a joint Initiative, with activities reaching across eight IIASA programs:

• Atmospheric Pollution and Economic Development (APD);
• Forestry (FOR);
• Land Use Change (LUC);
• Population and Climate Change (PCC);
• Risk and Vulnerability (RAV);
• World Population (POP);
• Health and Global Change (HGC)
• Energy.

GGI also continues collaboration with the Cross-Cutting Water Activities of IIASA.

Current research activities include modeling exercise to assess the co-benefits of integrated nitrogen management with greenhouse gas mitigation and adaptation to climate change; furthermore to evaluate the robustness of adaptation options and strategies for extreme climate risks and the involvement of adaptation in integrated climate-change modeling. Ongoing activities focus on the development of long-term, global scenarios; the assessment of near- to medium-term mitigation and adaptation opportunities for specific countries; and the development of an integrated modeling framework to analyze international policy approaches. Such analysis encompasses multiple gases and sectors (energy, agriculture, forestry). A recently started activity will examine how human development (as measured through the UNDP Human Development Index) could be progressed through alternative investments that cause less increase in GHG emissions. More...

Please contact Fabian Wagner if you would like to find out more about GGI.

NEWS:

November 2009

• 2. November: GGI Seminar. Sabine Fuss and Jana Szolgayova (FOR) on: Selecting a portfolio of R&D and emission policies to manage climate risks.

October 2009

• 1 new Interim Report publication on Intergrated Nitrogen Management in China by Ermolieva et.al.available online. For more details on recent and forthcoming papers see GGI Publications.

September 2009

• 11. September: Special GGI Seminar. Vanessa Schweizer from Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Engineering & Public Policy on: "Useful Parsimonious Long-term Energy Projections in the Face of Climate Change".

July 2009

• 1 new GGI publication by Katsumasa Tanaka et.al. For more details on recent and forthcoming papers see GGI Publications.

June 2009

• 3. June: GGI/RAV Seminar: Jason Blackstock (RAV) on Developing Climate Engineering Responses to Climate Emergencies: Scientific Assessments and Policy Implications of Geoengineering Research

• 24. June: YSSP Workshop on Climate Change: Panel members from GGI, APD, ENE, PIN, RAV present research on emissions and development, extreme events, critical infrastructure, and negotiations. Followed by a workshop, with YSSPers to prepare and raise issues relevant to their summer projects.

• GGI hosts and welcomes

  Zoe Chafe and
  Lin Fan

as participants of the 2009 Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) of IIASA

April 2009

• 16. April: Special GGI Seminar. Katsumasa Tanaka et.al. (PCC/GGI). Title: "A Combined Mitigation/Geoengineering Approach: An Uncertainty Analysis".

• 1 new GGI publication by Katsumasa Tanaka et.al. For more details on recent and forthcoming papers see GGI Publications.

• A recent publication of G. Marland, K. Hamal, and M. Jonas (2009) is now available in full access online.

March 2009

• 3 new GGI publications by Gregg Marland, Reinhard Mechler, Stefan Hochreiner and Tony Patt. For more details on recent and forthcoming papers see GGI Publications.

• Two new projects belong to the core cross-cutting activities of GGI in 2009:

  • the Geoengineering To Avoid Overshoot is a collaborative project of ENE, FOR, PCC and RAV programs;
  • a project on Climate Risk Management Modelling with APD, RAV, FOR and ENE programs involved.

Please also take a look at other upcoming events or browse our past events to find out more about GGI activities.

Responsible for this page: Fabian Wagner
Last updated: 24 Feb 2011