Abstract:Abstract:In recent years, an overly narrow focus on rebound effects has limited the extent of researcher and policy attention afforded to the wider multiple benefits of increased energy efficiency. The objective of this paper is to focus policy attention on the sustained added value to the economy that is created as result of improving energy efficiency in the residential sector. Governments around the world are committed to increasing energy efficiency more generally, but often focus public support in low inc… Show more
“…Therefore, a component of the social inequality that manifests in UK housing can be addressed via energy efficiency improvements that reduce greenhouse gas emissions while providing co-benefits for job creation, economic growth, food security, poverty alleviation, educational attainment, and social mobility ( figure 2 ). 31 , 84 Figure 2 The interaction between poverty, housing, health, education, work and the economy, and the potential impact of a climate change-related intervention (A) An illustration of how living in poverty interacts with housing, health, education, work, and the economy. (B) How a climate change-related intervention (eg, improving the energy efficiency of the housing stock) can help to break some of the pernicious cycle of poverty.…”
Summary
To avoid a 1·5°C rise in global temperatures above preindustrial levels, the next phase of reductions in greenhouse gas emissions will need to be comparatively rapid. Linking the co-benefits of climate action to wider issues that the public are concerned about can help decision makers to prioritise decarbonisation options that increase the chance of public support for such changes, while ensuring that a just transition is delivered. We identified key issues of concern to the UK public by use of Ipsos MORI public opinion data from 2007 to 2020 and used these data to guide a narrative review of academic and grey literature on the co-benefits of climate change action for the UK. Correspondence with civil servants, third sector organisations, and relevant academics allowed us to identify omissions and to ensure policy relevance of the recommendations. This evidence-based Review of the various co-benefits of climate change action for the UK identifies four main areas: health and the National Health Service; security; economy and unemployment; and poverty, housing, and inequality. Associated trade-offs are also discussed. City-level and regional-level governments are particularly well placed to incorporate co-benefits into their decision making because it is at this scale that co-benefits most clearly manifest, and where interventions can have the most immediate effects.
“…Therefore, a component of the social inequality that manifests in UK housing can be addressed via energy efficiency improvements that reduce greenhouse gas emissions while providing co-benefits for job creation, economic growth, food security, poverty alleviation, educational attainment, and social mobility ( figure 2 ). 31 , 84 Figure 2 The interaction between poverty, housing, health, education, work and the economy, and the potential impact of a climate change-related intervention (A) An illustration of how living in poverty interacts with housing, health, education, work, and the economy. (B) How a climate change-related intervention (eg, improving the energy efficiency of the housing stock) can help to break some of the pernicious cycle of poverty.…”
Summary
To avoid a 1·5°C rise in global temperatures above preindustrial levels, the next phase of reductions in greenhouse gas emissions will need to be comparatively rapid. Linking the co-benefits of climate action to wider issues that the public are concerned about can help decision makers to prioritise decarbonisation options that increase the chance of public support for such changes, while ensuring that a just transition is delivered. We identified key issues of concern to the UK public by use of Ipsos MORI public opinion data from 2007 to 2020 and used these data to guide a narrative review of academic and grey literature on the co-benefits of climate change action for the UK. Correspondence with civil servants, third sector organisations, and relevant academics allowed us to identify omissions and to ensure policy relevance of the recommendations. This evidence-based Review of the various co-benefits of climate change action for the UK identifies four main areas: health and the National Health Service; security; economy and unemployment; and poverty, housing, and inequality. Associated trade-offs are also discussed. City-level and regional-level governments are particularly well placed to incorporate co-benefits into their decision making because it is at this scale that co-benefits most clearly manifest, and where interventions can have the most immediate effects.
“…(3) Revised models assumed perfect competition, except Figus et al [2017b], Figus et al [2018]. For (4) and (5), mobile representation of capital between national sectors, investments, and labor increase gradually.…”
“…For (4) and (5), mobile representation of capital between national sectors, investments, and labor increase gradually. (6) Recent models are not only dynamic, such that they capture consumer's responsiveness [Figus et al, 2017b], [Figus et al, 2018] [Chang et al, 2018], [Bye et al, 2018], [Duarte et al, 2018], including consumer response to price changes in time, but are also regional-specific (or spatial CGE models) [Helgesen et al, 2018]. (7) To represent energy and non-energy goods, CES/Cobb douglas functions are commonly used and inputs in the energy sector are usually modeled as Leontief composites, with no possibility of substitution, in RE studies assessed in this overview.…”
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AbstractIn this paper, we review the state-of-the-art and common practice of energy and climate modeling visa-vis the rebound literature, in particular regarding how macroeconomic energy and climate models quantify and include energy and greenhouse gas rebound effects. First, we focus on rebound effects in models of costless energy efficiency improvement that hold other attributes constant (zero-cost breakthrough), and an energy efficiency policy that may be bundled with other product changes that affect energy use (policy-induced efficiency improvement) (Gillingham et al. 2015). Second, we examine macroeconomic studies focusing on energy efficiency both in industry and in private households. Third, we go through a general theoretical revision from micro-to macroeconomic levels (the aggregation level) to include a review of the so-called meso-level studies (focused on the analysis of the production side). From 118 recent studies along the aggregation level, out of which 25 compute rebound calculations, we find that the average energy rebound effect is 58% with a standard deviation of 58%, and when we include green house gas rebound calculations, the magnitude is of the order of 43% with a standard deviation of 55%. Finally, we argue that the rebound effect is a phenomenon that requires a sound understanding of the complex interactions from different dimensions (e.g. aggregation level, heterogeneity, climate, energy conservation and economic growth), and we provide some ideas and motivations for future research.
JEL ClassificationE13, Q410, Q430, Q48, Q540, R13
“…For instance, the rebound in residential energy use only considers savings in the residential sector, while the economy wide rebound considers energy savings in the whole economy. See Figus et al (2017b) Appendix D for details. significant difference in the level of expansion when only the lowest-income households are targeted (Scenario b) compared to the case where all the households receive the efficiency improvement (Scenario a).…”
Section: Household Energy Efficiency Improvements In the Uk -Can Publmentioning
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