Health co-benefits of climate change mitigation depend on strategic power plant retirements and pollution controls

Interaction Patterns between Climate Action and Air Cleaning in China: A Two-Way Evaluation Based on an Ensemble Learning Approach

“…Since the core of carbon neutrality is energy structure transformation, fossil fuel consumption in industry-intensive areas could be sharply reduced, leading to significant reductions in combustion-derived precursors such as SO 2 , NO X , and primary PM 2.5 . Moreover, provinces with heavy industrial structures could gain greater benefits of public health associated with air pollutant mitigation due to green upgrade and retirement efforts of heavy industry to achieve carbon neutrality …”

“…Moreover, provinces with heavy industrial structures could gain greater benefits of public health associated with air pollutant mitigation due to green upgrade and retirement efforts of heavy industry to achieve carbon neutrality. 5 In contrast, the primary PM 2.5 and NH 3 difference values are generally positive (green) across all provinces. As mentioned above, the NH 3 emissions in our study are not representative enough as the agricultural sector is not included.…”

“…China is seeking pathways to achieve its simultaneous goals of mitigating climate change and improving air quality. These simultaneous goals are ultimately to be achieved in 2060, forming an advanced sustainable development mode in which carbon neutrality is accomplished to satisfy its pledge during the United Nations General Assembly, and the annual PM 2.5 (particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter smaller than 2.5 μm) concentration is expected to be lower than the WHO IT-4 (World Health Organization interim target 4, i.e., 10 μg/m 3 ) level. − Climate action associated with greenhouse gases (GHGs) and air pollution mitigation associated with PM 2.5 are not separate as both pollutants are largely attributed to the combustion of fossil fuels in industrial, transport, and electricity generation sectors. − Therefore, a well-designed mitigation policy can produce notable cobenefits, which can offset much of their economic cost, , in turn, raising the important question of how to identify interaction patterns between climate action and air cleaning measures to realize cost-effective policy-making.…”

Enabling a low-carbon electricity system for Southern Africa

“…Early retirement results in low shares of coal generation and thus in reductions of carbon emissions as well as improved air quality and health outcomes-which have economic benefits that we did not quantify in this study. 26 However, early coal retirement have higher system costs because of the need to build replacement generation capacity.…”

The co-benefits of clean air and low-carbon policies on heavy metal emission reductions from coal-fired power plants in china

“…This is bound to synergistically affect the future HM emission trajectory. Understanding the influence of future environmental policies accurately can enlighten policymakers to implement appropriate mitigation policies (Chao et al, 2021;Ding et al, 2021;Tong et al, 2021). However, the future emission reduction pathways of HMs are mainly designed on the basis of the outdated national and provincial emission inventories of a few HMs (Kwon et al, 2018;Navratil et al, 2016;Sunderland and Selin, 2013;Sung et al, 2018).…”