Cost-Effective Sulphur Emission Reduction Under Uncertainty

The problem of reducing SO 2 emissions in Europe is considered. The costs of reduction are assumed to be uncertain and are modeled by a set of possible scenarios. A meanvariance model of the problem is formulated and a specialized computational procedure is developed. The approach is applied to the transboundary air pollution model with real-world data. Keywords: Environment, Probabilistic programming, Interior point methods. iii iv Cost-Effective Sulphur Emission Reduction Under Uncertainty Anna Altman, Markus Amann, Ger Klaassen, Andrzej Ruszczy'nski, Wolfgang Schopp 1 Introduction Reducing the pollution in the environment has become one of the challenges of the present time in industrial countries, and especially in Europe. It is commonly agreed that action should be undertaken to stop the growth of emissions and eventually achieve a substantial reduction of depositions. One of the issues that attracts the attention of researchers and decision-makers is the emission of sulphu..