The impact of human health co-benefits on evaluations of global climate policy
Aerosol impacts have not been comprehensively considered in the cost-benefit integrated assessment models that are widely used to analyze climate policy. Here the authors account for these impacts and find that the health co-benefits from improved air quality outweigh the co-harms from increased nea...
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| author | Noah Scovronick Mark Budolfson Francis Dennig Frank Errickson Marc Fleurbaey Wei Peng Robert H. Socolow Dean Spears Fabian Wagner |
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| description | Aerosol impacts have not been comprehensively considered in the cost-benefit integrated assessment models that are widely used to analyze climate policy. Here the authors account for these impacts and find that the health co-benefits from improved air quality outweigh the co-harms from increased near-term warming, and that optimal climate policy results in immediate net benefits globally. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-de9ffe954d3e45199db9863dcd2ea7d92022-12-21T22:56:40ZengNature PortfolioNature Communications2041-17232019-05-0110111210.1038/s41467-019-09499-xThe impact of human health co-benefits on evaluations of global climate policyNoah Scovronick0Mark Budolfson1Francis Dennig2Frank Errickson3Marc Fleurbaey4Wei Peng5Robert H. Socolow6Dean Spears7Fabian Wagner8Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory UniversityGund Institute for Environment and Department of Philosophy, University of VermontSocial Sciences (Economics), Yale-NUS CollegeEnergy and Resources Group, University of California BerkeleyWoodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton UniversitySchool of International Affairs and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pennsylvania State UniversityDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton UniversityDepartment of Economics, University of Texas at AustinWoodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton UniversityAerosol impacts have not been comprehensively considered in the cost-benefit integrated assessment models that are widely used to analyze climate policy. Here the authors account for these impacts and find that the health co-benefits from improved air quality outweigh the co-harms from increased near-term warming, and that optimal climate policy results in immediate net benefits globally.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09499-x |
| spellingShingle | Noah Scovronick Mark Budolfson Francis Dennig Frank Errickson Marc Fleurbaey Wei Peng Robert H. Socolow Dean Spears Fabian Wagner The impact of human health co-benefits on evaluations of global climate policy Nature Communications |
| title | The impact of human health co-benefits on evaluations of global climate policy |
| title_full | The impact of human health co-benefits on evaluations of global climate policy |
| title_fullStr | The impact of human health co-benefits on evaluations of global climate policy |
| title_full_unstemmed | The impact of human health co-benefits on evaluations of global climate policy |
| title_short | The impact of human health co-benefits on evaluations of global climate policy |
| title_sort | impact of human health co benefits on evaluations of global climate policy |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09499-x |
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