Synergy between pollution and carbon emissions control: Comparing China and the United States
We estimate the potential synergy between pollution and climate control in the U.S. and China, summarizing the results as emissions cross-elasticities of control. In both countries, ancillary carbon reductions resulting from SO2and NOxcontrol tend to rise with the increased stringency of control tar...
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| author | Nam, Kyung-Min Waugh, Caleb J. Paltsev, Sergey Reilly, John M Karplus, Valerie Jean |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Joint Program on the Science & Policy of Global Change Nam, Kyung-Min Waugh, Caleb J. Paltsev, Sergey Reilly, John M Karplus, Valerie Jean |
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| description | We estimate the potential synergy between pollution and climate control in the U.S. and China, summarizing the results as emissions cross-elasticities of control. In both countries, ancillary carbon reductions resulting from SO2and NOxcontrol tend to rise with the increased stringency of control targets, reflecting the eventual need for wholesale change toward non-fossil technologies when large reductions are required. Under stringent pollution targets, the non-target effects tend to be higher in China than in the U.S., due to China's heavy reliance on coal. This result suggests that China may have greater incentives to reduce SO2and NOxwith locally apparent pollution benefits, but related efforts would at the same time reduce CO2emissions significantly. We also find strong non-target effects of CO2abatement in both countries, but the cross effects in this direction depend less on the stringency of control and are stronger in the U.S. than in China. Keywords: Air pollution; Carbon mitigation; Cobenefit; Emissions cross-elasticity; Computable general equilibrium |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1194142022-10-01T22:38:26Z Synergy between pollution and carbon emissions control: Comparing China and the United States Nam, Kyung-Min Waugh, Caleb J. Paltsev, Sergey Reilly, John M Karplus, Valerie Jean Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Joint Program on the Science & Policy of Global Change Sloan School of Management Paltsev, Sergey Reilly, John M Karplus, Valerie Jean We estimate the potential synergy between pollution and climate control in the U.S. and China, summarizing the results as emissions cross-elasticities of control. In both countries, ancillary carbon reductions resulting from SO2and NOxcontrol tend to rise with the increased stringency of control targets, reflecting the eventual need for wholesale change toward non-fossil technologies when large reductions are required. Under stringent pollution targets, the non-target effects tend to be higher in China than in the U.S., due to China's heavy reliance on coal. This result suggests that China may have greater incentives to reduce SO2and NOxwith locally apparent pollution benefits, but related efforts would at the same time reduce CO2emissions significantly. We also find strong non-target effects of CO2abatement in both countries, but the cross effects in this direction depend less on the stringency of control and are stronger in the U.S. than in China. Keywords: Air pollution; Carbon mitigation; Cobenefit; Emissions cross-elasticity; Computable general equilibrium 2018-12-04T17:43:09Z 2018-12-04T17:43:09Z 2014-08 2014-08 2018-12-04T14:17:13Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0140-9883 1873-6181 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/119414 Nam, Kyung-Min et al. “Synergy Between Pollution and Carbon Emissions Control: Comparing China and the United States.” Energy Economics 46 (November 2014): 186–201 © 2014 Elsevier B.V. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3287-0732 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5595-0968 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/J.ENECO.2014.08.013 Energy Economics Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ application/pdf Elsevier MIT Web Domain |
| spellingShingle | Nam, Kyung-Min Waugh, Caleb J. Paltsev, Sergey Reilly, John M Karplus, Valerie Jean Synergy between pollution and carbon emissions control: Comparing China and the United States |
| title | Synergy between pollution and carbon emissions control: Comparing China and the United States |
| title_full | Synergy between pollution and carbon emissions control: Comparing China and the United States |
| title_fullStr | Synergy between pollution and carbon emissions control: Comparing China and the United States |
| title_full_unstemmed | Synergy between pollution and carbon emissions control: Comparing China and the United States |
| title_short | Synergy between pollution and carbon emissions control: Comparing China and the United States |
| title_sort | synergy between pollution and carbon emissions control comparing china and the united states |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/119414 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3287-0732 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5595-0968 |
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