Kevin Rosseel

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The Integrated Environmental Strategies (IES)
Program Local Benefits With Global Results

• Kevin Rosseel
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Washington, DC

Presented at the Coordination Meeting of Regional
Programs and Initiatives on Air Quality
Management in Asia, Bangkok, 16 June 2004
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IES U.S. EPAs Integrated Environmental
Strategies Program

• Established in 1998 as a capacity-enhancing
  co-benefits program.
• Partners local teams in developing countries with
  experts and tools from U.S. EPA, other IES
  projects, and other organizations (e.g., U.S.
  AID, NREL).
• Flexible, to address local air quality and public
  health needs of stakeholders in cities.
• Identifies and analyzes integrated (i.e.,
  air-quality improvement and greenhouse-gas
  mitigation) strategies and co-benefits.

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IES goals

• Identify strategies that improve local air
  quality while meeting public-health,
  economic-development, and GHG-mitigation
  objectives.
• Provide stakeholders with quantitative estimates
  of local and global co-benefits of policies and
  technologies.
• Engage stakeholders to lay groundwork for
  implementation of cost-effective air quality
  management strategies.
• Build analytical, institutional, and human
  capacity for multidisciplinary analysis of
  health, environmental, and GHG-mitigation impacts
  of alternative strategies.
• Transfer tools and methodologies for co-benefits
  analysis.

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Why do co-benefits analysis?

• From a decision making perspective, co-benefits
  analysis allows energy options, health impacts,
  and GHG emissions to be linked together and
  evaluated.
• Co-benefits analysis enables sound policy making
  to be based on quantitative analysis.
• Co-benefits work helps prioritize options in an
  environment where resources are limited.

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Advancement of knowledge base

• IES conducts and documents analysis and
  stakeholder engagement for an array of measures.
• Journal articles, conference presentations, case
  studies, and workshops about IESs integrated
  approach, projects.
• IES website and IES Handbook will be launched in
  July.
• With other organizations (UNEP, HEI, World Bank,
  et. al.), supports AirImpacts.org site.
• Features information on environmental, health,
  and economic impacts of air pollution.
• For developing-country research and policy-making
  community.

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Advancement of knowledge base

• With U.S. AID and Global Environment
  Technology Foundation, supports U.S. Climate
  Technology Cooperation (CTC) Gateway.
• Information about programs, projects, and
  resources supported by the U.S. government to
  foster international technology cooperation to
  address climate change.
• Located at www.usctcgateway.net.

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Capacity building

• IES provides technical expertise and tools to
  local teams, including researchers, policymakers,
  others.
• Not a research program, rather a vehicle for
  analysis, outreach, and promoting implementation
  of measures.
• Provides training opportunities for use of
  models.
• e.g., APHEBA model developed by IES partner in
  Chile.
• Looking into closer collaboration with
  CATNet-Asia.
• Promotes rationale and support for implementation
  of policy, technology, and infrastructure
  measures with local and global benefits.

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Policy promotion

• Works with local project teams that include
  policymakers to identify implementable
  policies.
• Integral part of IES is initial and ongoing
  buy-in from stakeholders in public, private,
  not-for-profit sectors.
• Example of outreach/education Hyderabad, India.
• Public-education project supported by U.S. AID,
  implemented by NREL and Winrock International
  India.
• New hyderabadair.info site to be launched this
  month.
• Outreach to businesses targets 20 companies to
  encourage adoption of low-cost measures
  supported by U.S. AID, NREL, and Congress of
  Indian Industries.

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Regional exchange and coordination

• Provides intra- and inter-regional (with CAI
  Latin America) exchange of expertise on IES
  approach, health-benefits assessment.
• IES is scoping the development of a new regional
  health-based center of excellence, based in
  Manila.
• Some partners in Asia

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For more information

• Kevin Rosseel, IES Program
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• Washington, DC
• rosseel.kevin_at_epa.gov or 1 202 343-9731
• IES email box at ies_at_epa.gov

Thank You!