Author : Gary C. Bryner
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 20,10 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0262517876
How policies aimed at addressing climate change, air pollution, and energy use can be effectively integrated.
Author : Caterina De Lucia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 15,53 MB
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136930124
The interlinked issues of air pollution and energy policies in an enlarged Europe are currently subjects of major interest in economic, environmental, geography and regional sciences. This interest is understandable given the considerable consequences on human health and on climate change issues at not only a European, but a global level. In addition, the recent effects of economic fluctuation and oil prices as well as the actual restructuring of the European energy supply and security market raise a great deal of policy challenges. These issues have become an increasingly relevant concern, as the optimal design of policy by centralised European institutions has come under greater scrutiny. This book presents an integrated approach to recent regulations on air pollution with particular emphasis on transborder air pollution, climate change and energy policies in the new Europe. This integrated vision embraces the extent to which global pollution influences policy decisions at different institutional levels; the magnitude, by virtue of policy simulation analysis, of environmental policy tools (i.e. environmental taxes) on aggregate welfare and transboundary air emissions fluxes in light of the recent enlargement process; the European Trading System and its flexible mechanisms to curb carbon emissions and fulfil the European Union Kyoto Protocol’s commitments; and the developments of the new European energy strategy and its interdependencies across energy requirements, innovation, competitiveness and climate change. The book is primarily aimed at Postgraduates and Postdoctoral research students in economics, environmental economics, environmental sciences, or environmental policy disciplines. However, it should also be of interest to environmental economists, energy policy analysts, members of governmental and non-governmental agencies dealing with environmental policy, climate change or air pollution.
Author : European Union. European Environment Agency
Publisher :
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 16,3 MB
Release : 2004
Category :
ISBN : 9789291677009
"There is an increasing awareness in both the science and policy communities of the importance of addressing the linkages between the traditional air pollutants and greenhouse gases. Many of the traditional air pollutants and greenhouse gases have common sources, their emissions interact in the atmosphere, and separately or jointly they cause a variety of environmental impacts on the local, regional and global scales. Linkages work in two directions: there can be synergies and negative trade-offs. Thus, emission control strategies that imultaneously address air pollutants and greenhouse gases may lead to a more efficient use of the resources on all scales."--Editor.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 35,24 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Attorneys general
ISBN :
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 10,77 MB
Release : 2001-04-05
Category :
ISBN : 9264188568
The OECD Environmental Outlook provides economy-based projections of environmental pressures and changes in the state of the environment to 2020.
Author : J. C. Bollen
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,23 MB
Release : 2013
Category :
ISBN :
This article presents an integrated assessment of climate change, air pollution, and energy security policy. Basis of our analysis is the MERGE model, designed to study the interaction between the global economy, energy use, and the impacts of climate change. For our purposes we expanded MERGE with expressions that quantify damages incurred to regional economies as a result of air pollution and lack of energy security. One of the main findings of our cost-benefit analysis is that energy security policy alone does not decrease the use of oil: global oil consumption is only delayed by several decades and oil reserves are still practically depleted before the end of the 21st century. If, on the other hand, energy security policy is integrated with optimal climate change and air pollution policy, the world's oil reserves will not be depleted, at least not before our modeling horizon well into the 22nd century: total cumulative demand for oil then decreases by about 20%. More generally, we demonstrate that there are multiple other benefits of combining climate change, air pollution, and energy security policies and exploiting the possible synergies between them. These benefits can be large: for Europe the achievable CO2 emission abatement and oil consumption reduction levels are significantly deeper for integrated policy than when a strategy is adopted in which one of the three policies is omitted. Integrated optimal energy policy can reduce the number of premature deaths from air pollution by about 14,000 annually in Europe and over 3 million per year globally, by lowering the chronic exposure to ambient particulate matter. Only the optimal strategy combining the three types of energy policy can constrain the global average atmospheric temperature increase to a limit of 3oC with respect to the pre-industrial level.
Author : Lawrence Goulder
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 35,51 MB
Release : 2017-12-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0231545932
Without significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions, climate change will cause substantial damage to the environment and the economy. The scope of the threat demands a close look at the policies capable of reducing the harm. Confronting the Climate Challenge presents a unique framework for evaluating the impacts of a range of U.S. climate-policy options, both for the economy overall and for particular household groups, industries, and regions. Lawrence Goulder and Marc Hafstead focus on four alternative approaches for reducing carbon dioxide emissions: a revenue-neutral carbon tax, a cap-and-trade program, a clean energy standard, and an increase in the federal gasoline tax. They demonstrate that these policies—if designed correctly—not only can achieve emissions reductions at low cost but also can avoid placing undesirable burdens on low-income household groups or especially vulnerable industries. Goulder and Hafstead apply a multiperiod, economy-wide general equilibrium model that is distinct in its attention to investment dynamics and to interactions between climate policy and the tax system. Exploiting the unique features of the model, they contrast the shorter- and longer-term policy impacts and focus on alternative ways of feeding back—or “recycling”—policy-generated revenues to the private sector. Their work shows how careful policy design, including the judicious use of policy-generated revenues, can achieve desired reductions in carbon dioxide emissions at low cost, avoid uneven impacts across household income groups, and prevent losses of profit in the most vulnerable U.S. industries. The urgency of the climate problem demands comprehensive action, and Confronting the Climate Challenge offers important insights that can help elevate policy discussions and spur needed efforts on the climate front.
Author : Ann Carlson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 28,51 MB
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108421520
Examines the successes and failures of the Clean Air Act in order to lay a foundation for future energy policy.
Author : Wolfgang Buchholz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 38,53 MB
Release : 2019-11-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3030309789
This volume presents new developments in the research on ancillary benefits. Twenty years after the influential OECD report on ancillary benefits, the authors discuss theoretical innovations and offer new empirical findings on various ancillary effects in different world regions. Covering topics such as ancillary health effects associated with reduced air pollution, the influence of ancillary benefits on international cooperation on climate protection, co-effects of carbon capture and storage, ancillary effects of adaptation to climate change, multi-criteria decision analysis covering multiple effects of climate protection actions, and the analysis of primary and ancillary effects within an impure public goods framework, it provides starting points for further research on integrated climate policies seeking to address a range of policy objectives simultaneously.
Author : Grzegorz Peszko
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 35,60 MB
Release : 2022-12-30
Category :
ISBN : 1464818355
