Climate Co-benefits of Tighter SO2 and NOx Regulations in China

Air pollution has been recognized as a significant problem in China. In its Twelfth Five Year Plan (FYP), China proposes to reduce SO2 and NOx emissions significantly, and here we investigate the cost of achieving those reductions and the implications of doing so for CO2 emissions. We extend the ana...

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Main Authors: Nam, Kyung-Min, Waugh, Caleb J., Paltsev, Sergey, Reilly, John M., Karplus, Valerie J.
Format: Technical Report
Language:en_US
Published: MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/74560