{"id":353,"date":"2022-03-23T08:18:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T08:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/envecon.eu\/?post_type=project&#038;p=353"},"modified":"2022-07-01T12:47:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T12:47:22","slug":"gains-ireland","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/envecon.eu\/project\/gains-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"GAINS Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Research Project:\u00a0GAINS Ireland multi-sectoral integrated modelling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>GAINS Ireland is the national instance of the GAINS Europe model. GAINS Europe is developed by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and is the model used to inform a broad swathe of European environmental policy decisions. Informing\u00a0<em>inter alia<\/em>, the initial European climate and energy package 2008 and the subsequent\u00a0discussions for the step-up towards 30%. The model\u00a0has also played a\u00a0direct role in the development of the\u00a0European non-traded sector targets (NETS), the National Emissions Ceiling Directive (NECD), and the Gothenburg Protocol (GP). EnvEcon research maintain and develop the GAINS Ireland system as a policy evaluation tool for Ireland that can also link with GAINS Europe and\u00a0beyond. The GAINS Ireland system\u00a0is focused upon supporting effective policy decisions and evidence led negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>The GAINS Ireland\u00a0system\u00a0is currently\u00a0playing a leading role in developing national and sectoral responses in\u00a0regard to key policy challenges such as the European\u00a0GHG emissions\u00a0challenge\u00a0anticipated in the context of the NETS targets from 2013\u00a0to 2030, as well as an ongoing central role in\u00a0the air pollution driven objectives for 2020 and 2030\u00a0under European (Thematic Strategy on Air Pollution) and UNECE (Gothenburg Protocol)\u00a0agreements.<\/p>\n<p>The GAINS Ireland model draws on historical and projected activity, as well as control and cost data from every sector of the economy to model the emissions, impacts and cost-effective abatement potential of the market with respect to a given constraint. The model is a powerful tool in its own right, but also serves as a pivot for broader complementary research by EnvEcon and as a\u00a0valuable integrator for the work of others in this context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Project:\u00a0GAINS Ireland multi-sectoral integrated modelling GAINS Ireland is the national instance of the GAINS Europe model. GAINS Europe is developed by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and is the model used to inform a broad swathe of European environmental policy decisions. Informing\u00a0inter alia, the initial European climate and energy package 2008 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"project_category":[11],"project_tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envecon.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envecon.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envecon.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envecon.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envecon.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/envecon.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/envecon.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/353\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envecon.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envecon.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envecon.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_category?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"project_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envecon.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_tag?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}