The importance of health co-benefits under different climate policy cooperation frameworks
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15544304 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Noah Scovronick (0000-0003-1410-3337, Emory University, corresponding author), David Anthoff (0000-0001-9319-2109, University of California, Berkeley), Francis Dennig (0000-0001-7362-1009, Yale-NUS College), Frank Errickson (0000-0003-2195-9424, Princeton University), Maddalena Ferranna (0000-0002-3892-8301, Harvard University), Wei Peng (0000-0002-2229-4682, Pennsylvania State University), Dean Spears (0000-0001-7905-9192, The University of Texas at Austin), Fabian Wagner (0000-0003-3429-2374, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis), Mark Budolfson (0000-0003-0414-0433, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 055027-055027 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Research Letters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1748-9326 • E-ISSN: 1748-9326 |
| Publisher | IOP Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1088/1748-9326/abf2e7 |
| OpenAlex | W3161567746 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 32 |
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions has the ‘co-benefit’ of also reducing air pollution and associated impacts on human health. Here, we incorporate health co-benefits into estimates of the optimal climate policy for three different climate policy regimes. The first fully internalizes the climate externality at the global level via a uniform carbon price (the ‘cooperative equilibrium’), thus minimizing total mitigation costs. The second connects to the concept of ‘common but differentiated responsibilities’ where nations coordinate their actions while accounting for different national capabilities considering socioeconomic conditions. The third assumes nations act only in their own self-interest. We find that air quality co-benefits motivate substantially reduced emissions under all three policy regimes, but that some form of global cooperation is required to prevent runaway temperature rise. However, co-benefits do warrant high levels of mitigation in certain regions even in the self-interested case, suggesting that air quality impacts may expand the range of possible policy outcomes whereby global temperatures do not increase unabated
Air quality index · Business · Climate change · Climate change mitigation · Climate policy · Economics · Environmental economics · Externality · Geography · Greenhouse gas · Meteorology · Microeconomics · Natural resource economics · Public economics · Warrant · Air Quality and Health Impacts · Climate Change and Health Impacts · Environmental Science · Global Health Care Issues · Finance
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| Citations per year | 2.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |