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Republic of Korea
- History and Objectives
- Phase 1: Ancillary Benefits Due to GHG Mitigation (June 2001)
- Phase 2: GHG Impacts of the Seoul Air Quality Management Plan (June 2007)
History and Objectives
The IES-Republic of Korea program, initiated in February 1999, is a collaboration among the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Environment, the Korean Environment Institute (KEI), and the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL). The objective of the program is to assess and quantify the environmental and public health benefits resulting from integrated measures to reduce greenhouse gases (GHGs) and local air pollution. The program enhances in-country capacity to conduct co-benefits analysis and assists with policy evaluation for integrated planning.
Two IES-Republic of Korea projects have been conducted to date, and a third project is in the planning stages. The first project applied a bottom-up impact analysis approach to evaluate the benefits from integrated mitigation policies and measures in the metropolitan area of Seoul, Korea. The second project evaluated the health and GHG impacts from the Seoul Air Quality Management Plan, and compared them with the expected health and GHG impacts from selected GHG reduction measures. Results from the second IES-Republic of Korea project were released in mid-2007.
Phase 1: Ancillary Benefits Due to GHG Mitigation (June 2001)
Phase 1 of the IES-Republic of Korea study applied a bottom-up impact analysis approach to evaluate the benefits resulting from integrated mitigation policies and measures in the metropolitan Seoul area.
Phase 2: GHG Impacts of the Seoul Air Quality Management Plan (June 2007)
Phase 2 of the IES-Republic of Korea study, which ran from 2003 to 2007, evaluated the health and GHG impacts of the Seoul Air Quality Management Plan (SAQMP).