Low-CO2 energy pathways and regional air pollution in Europe

Syri, Sanna; Amann, Markus; Capros, Pantélis; Mantzos, Leonidas; Cofała, J.; Klimont, Zbigniew

doi:10.1016/s0301-4215(01)00022-2

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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.…”

Section: Policy Choice Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“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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Section: Policy Choice Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“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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“…The RCPs have been recently developed to provide greenhouse gases emissions scenarios to the climate models that have been used to generate the most recent set of climate change scenarios (Stocker et al 2013). The RCPs are the new standard in the climate change literature and are now being complemented by a set of socio-economic scenarios, the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSP) (Ebi et al 2014, Van Vuuren et al 2014.…”

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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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“…Burgess et al, 2005), involving (1) top-down equilibrium or optimisation models such as PRIMES (Syri et al, 2001) and MoMo (Fulton et al, 2009); (2) bottom-up simulation models such as TRENDS (Georgakaki et al, 2005), TREMOVE (De Ceuster et al, 2004), Zachariadis (2005) and Schäfer and Jacoby (2006); and (3) transport network models such as ASTRA (Martino and Schade, 2000), SCENES (IWW et al, 2000) and EXPEDITE (de Jong et al, 2004). The majority of these models were designed to explore specific policy questions, focusing on economic and technology policy interventions and their effects on transport demand, with some modelling of (direct) energy use and emissions.…”

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The UK transport carbon model: An integrated life cycle approach to explore low carbon futures

2012

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Current debate focuses on the need for the transport sector to contribute to more ambitious carbon emission reduction targets. In the UK, various macro-economic and energy system wide, top-down models are used to explore the potential for energy demand and carbon emissions reduction in the transport sector. These models can lack the bottom-up, sectoral detail needed to simulate the effects of integrated demand and supply-side policy strategies to reduce emissions. Bridging the gap between short-term forecasting and long-term scenario "models", this paper introduces a newly developed strategic transport, energy, emissions and environmental impacts model, the UK Transport Carbon Model (UKTCM). The UKTCM covers the range of transportenergy-environment issues from socio-economic and policy influences on energy demand reduction through to lifecycle carbon emissions and external costs. The model is demonstrated in this paper by presenting the results of three single policies and one policy package scenario. Limitations of the model are also discussed. Developed under the auspices of the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) the UKTCM can be used to develop transport policy scenarios that explore the full range of technological, fiscal, regulatory and behavioural change policy interventions to meet UK climate change and energy security goals.

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Low-CO2 energy pathways and regional air pollution in Europe

Cited by 57 publications

References 2 publications

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

“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

The UK transport carbon model: An integrated life cycle approach to explore low carbon futures

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