Large-scale renewable energy brings regionally disproportional air quality and health co-benefits in China
Summary: Developing renewable energy could jointly reduce air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and bring air pollution-related health co-benefits. However, the temporal and sub-national distributions of investment costs and human health co-benefits from renewable energy deployment remain unclear...
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| author | Yang Xie Meng Xu Jinlu Pu Yujie Pan Xiaorui Liu Yanxu Zhang Shasha Xu |
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| description | Summary: Developing renewable energy could jointly reduce air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and bring air pollution-related health co-benefits. However, the temporal and sub-national distributions of investment costs and human health co-benefits from renewable energy deployment remain unclear. To investigate this gap, we linked multiple models for a more comprehensive assessment of the economic-environmental-health co-benefits of renewable energy development in China. The results show that developing renewable energy can avoid 0.6 million premature mortalities, 151 million morbidities, and 111 million work-loss days in 2050. Meanwhile, the human health and economic co-benefits vary substantially across regions in China. Renewable energy can undoubtedly bring health and economic co-benefits. Nevertheless, the economic benefits lag considerably behind the high initial investment cost, first negative in 2030 (−0.6 trillion Yuan) and then positive in 2050 (2.9 trillion Yuan). Hence, renewable energy deployment strategy must be carefully designed considering the regional disparities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cdd802796ce342dc840a40ba2acc68542023-08-06T04:38:01ZengElsevieriScience2589-00422023-08-01268107459Large-scale renewable energy brings regionally disproportional air quality and health co-benefits in ChinaYang Xie0Meng Xu1Jinlu Pu2Yujie Pan3Xiaorui Liu4Yanxu Zhang5Shasha Xu6School of Economics and Management, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China; Laboratory for Low-carbon Intelligent Governance, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, ChinaSchool of Management, Wuhan Institute of Technology, Wuhan 430205, ChinaSchool of Economics and Management, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, ChinaCollege of Environmental Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, ChinaCollege of Environmental Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, ChinaSchool of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210023, ChinaCollege of Environmental Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China; Corresponding authorSummary: Developing renewable energy could jointly reduce air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and bring air pollution-related health co-benefits. However, the temporal and sub-national distributions of investment costs and human health co-benefits from renewable energy deployment remain unclear. To investigate this gap, we linked multiple models for a more comprehensive assessment of the economic-environmental-health co-benefits of renewable energy development in China. The results show that developing renewable energy can avoid 0.6 million premature mortalities, 151 million morbidities, and 111 million work-loss days in 2050. Meanwhile, the human health and economic co-benefits vary substantially across regions in China. Renewable energy can undoubtedly bring health and economic co-benefits. Nevertheless, the economic benefits lag considerably behind the high initial investment cost, first negative in 2030 (−0.6 trillion Yuan) and then positive in 2050 (2.9 trillion Yuan). Hence, renewable energy deployment strategy must be carefully designed considering the regional disparities.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004223015365Interdisciplinary application studiesSociology |
| spellingShingle | Yang Xie Meng Xu Jinlu Pu Yujie Pan Xiaorui Liu Yanxu Zhang Shasha Xu Large-scale renewable energy brings regionally disproportional air quality and health co-benefits in China iScience Interdisciplinary application studies Sociology |
| title | Large-scale renewable energy brings regionally disproportional air quality and health co-benefits in China |
| title_full | Large-scale renewable energy brings regionally disproportional air quality and health co-benefits in China |
| title_fullStr | Large-scale renewable energy brings regionally disproportional air quality and health co-benefits in China |
| title_full_unstemmed | Large-scale renewable energy brings regionally disproportional air quality and health co-benefits in China |
| title_short | Large-scale renewable energy brings regionally disproportional air quality and health co-benefits in China |
| title_sort | large scale renewable energy brings regionally disproportional air quality and health co benefits in china |
| topic | Interdisciplinary application studies Sociology |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004223015365 |
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