An integrated assessment of regional air pollution and climate change in Europe: findings of the AIR-CLIM Project

Alcamo, Joseph; Mayerhofer, Petra; Guardans, Ramón; Harmelen, Toon van; Minnen, J. van; Onigkeit, Janina; Posch, Maximilian; Vries, Bert de

doi:10.1016/s1462-9011(02)00037-0

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“…In the last decade, the combined effects of air pollution and climate warming on fresh-water systems have received increasing attention (Skjelkvåle and Wright, 1998;Schindler, 2001;Alcamo et al, 2002;Sanderson et al, 2006;Feuchtmayr et al, 2009;Sereda et al, 2011). It is important to understand the future role of Arctic-boreal lakes, wetlands, and large river systems, including thermokarst lakes and running waters of all size, in biogeochemical cycles, and how these changes affect livelihoods, agriculture, forestry, and industry.…”

Section: Lakes Wetlands and Large-scale River Systemsmentioning

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Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX): towards a holistic understanding of the feedbacks and interactions in the land–atmosphere–ocean–society continuum in the northern Eurasian region

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Abstract. The northern Eurasian regions and Arctic Ocean will very likely undergo substantial changes during the next decades. The Arctic-boreal natural environments play a crucial role in the global climate via albedo change, carbon sources and sinks as well as atmospheric aerosol production from biogenic volatile organic compounds. Furthermore, it is expected that global trade activities, demographic movement, and use of natural resources will be increasing in the Arctic regions. There is a need for a novel research approach, which not only identifies and tackles the relevant multi-disciplinary research questions, but also is able to make a holistic system analysis of the expected feedbacks. In this paper, we introduce the research agenda of the Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX), a multi-scale, multi-disciplinary and international program started in 2012 (https://www.atm.helsinki.fi/peex/). PEEX sets a research approach by which large-scale research topics are investigated from a system perspective and which aims to fill the key gaps in our understanding of the feedbacks and interactions between the land-atmosphereaquatic-society continuum in the northern Eurasian region. We introduce here the state of the art for the key topics in the PEEX research agenda and present the future prospects of the research, which we see relevant in this context.

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Section: Lakes Wetlands and Large-scale River Systemsmentioning

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Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX): towards a holistic understanding of the feedbacks and interactions in the land–atmosphere–ocean–society continuum in the northern Eurasian region

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“…Some of these studies use an integrated environmental assessment model or sector-specific analysis to investigate the co-benefit of climate change policy and regional air pollution control policy. (Syri et al, 2001;Alcamo et al, 2002;Mayerhofer et al, 2002;van Vuuren et al, 2006;Takeshita, 2012) More recently, a few researchers have begun to study these co-benefits in China. Zhang et al (2015) combine the energy conservation supply curves and the GAINS model to study the co-benefit in China's cement industry.…”

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“Lock-in” effect of emission standard and its impact on the choice of market based instruments

Qian

Tang

2017

Energy Economics

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Abstract:A country's existing emission standard policy will lead to a "lock in" effect. When the country plans to adopt new market-based instruments to control greenhouse gas emissions, it must consider this effect as it chooses among instruments to avoid larger efficiency loss. In this paper, we find that the "lock in" effect will cause a kink point to occur on the marginal abatement cost (MAC) curve. This change of shape for the MAC curve reminds us to be cautious in choosing market-based instruments when applying Weitzman's rule. We also introduce this concept into a dynamic multi-regional computable general equilibrium (CGE) model for China and simulate MAC curves for all regions. After applying Weitzman's rule, we propose a timeline for introducing price instruments under different marginal benefit (MB) curve scenarios.

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“…Burtraw et al 2003). Several studies investigated the links between regional air pollution and climate policy in Europe (Syri et al 2001;Alcamo et al 2002;van Harmelen et al 2002). Most, if not all, studies on ancillary benefits either utilize a damage factor for each pollutant or connect emissions to changes in concentrations, human exposures, physical effects and monetary damages using an integrated assessment model, such as the US APEEP (Muller and Mendelsohn 2007) or the EU ExternE's impact pathway analysis (Holland et al 2011).…”

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Quantifying the Ancillary Benefits of the Representative Concentration Pathways on Air Quality in Europe

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in SummaryThis paper presents estimates of the economic benefit of air quality improvements in Europe that occur as a side effect of GHG emission reductions. We consider three climate policy scenarios that reach radiative forcing levels in 2100 of three Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs). These targets are achieved by introducing a global uniform tax on all GHG emissions in the Integrated Assessment Model WITCH, assuming both full as well as limited technological flexibility. The resulting consumption patterns of fossil fuels are used to estimate the physical impacts and the economic benefits of pollution reductions on human health and on key assets by implementing the most advanced version of the ExternE methodology with its Impact Pathway Analysis. We find that the mitigation scenario compatible with +2°C reduces total pollution costs in Europe by 76%. Discounted ancillary benefits are more than €2.5 trillion between 2015 and 2100. The monetary value of reduced pollution is equal to €22 per abated ton of CO2 in Europe. Less strict climate policy scenarios generate overall smaller, but still considerable, local benefits (14 € or 18 € per abated ton of CO2). Without discounting, the ancillary benefits are in a range of €36 to €50 per ton of CO2 abated. Cumulative ancillary benefits exceed the cumulative additional cost of electricity generation in Europe. Each European country alone would be better off if the mitigation policy was implemented, although the local benefits in absolute terms vary significantly across the countries. We can identify the relative losers and winners of ancillary benefits in Europe. In particular, we find that large European countries contribute to as much as they benefit from ancillary benefits. The scenarios with limited technology flexibility do deliver results that are similar to the full technology flexibility scenario. Keywords AbstractThis paper presents estimates of the economic benefit of air quality improvements in Europe that occur as a side effect of GHG emission reductions. We consider three climate policy scenarios that reach radiative forcing levels in 2100 of three Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs). These targets are achieved by introducing a global uniform tax on all GHG emissions in the Integrated Assessment Model WITCH, assuming both full as well as limited technological flexibility. The resulting consumption patterns of fossil fuels are used to estimate the physic...

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An integrated assessment of regional air pollution and climate change in Europe: findings of the AIR-CLIM Project

Cited by 53 publications

References 18 publications

Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX): towards a holistic understanding of the feedbacks and interactions in the land–atmosphere–ocean–society continuum in the northern Eurasian region

Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX): towards a holistic understanding of the feedbacks and interactions in the land–atmosphere–ocean–society continuum in the northern Eurasian region

“Lock-in” effect of emission standard and its impact on the choice of market based instruments

Quantifying the Ancillary Benefits of the Representative Concentration Pathways on Air Quality in Europe

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