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September 21, 2007

Nordic air quality co-benefits from European post-2012 climate policies

Filed under: enviroment — @ 3:29 am

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2007.07.022

Abstract: Although status policies direct primarily CO2, they haw indirectly hit an effect on expose pollutants and thusly on expose quality. Here we countenance specifically at the co-benefits of different dweller post-2012 status contract scenarios attendant to expose calibre in the Germanic region. We psychoanalyse how caps on emissions, treatment of the dweller Union (EU) Emissions Trading System, copy taxes, and Slavonic and non-EU Eastern aggregation status after 2012 module impact emissions, expose quality, avoided abatement costs, goodness effects, the regional surround and manlike danger to stuff concern in the Germanic countries. We encounter that stricter targets module advance to low emissions of expose pollutants, and benefits to ecosystems and manlike health, which would hit required material abatement costs if achieved by covering of ‘end-of-pipe’ measures. Due to the acknowledged ingest of the plasticity mechanisms, reductions in emissions in the Germanic countries are small than in another regions, but the Germanic countries goodness from reductions in emissions in nearby regions. The more sectors that are included in the emissions trading scheme, the greater the emergence of expose pollutants. If Eastern aggregation and country were to desert status in a status agreement, the EU and Noreg would hit to consent more emergence cuts at bag in visit to foregather the aforementioned targets. This would goodness ecosystems in gray Scandinavia, but acidification would process in the northerly because of accumulated emissions in Russia.

Keywords: Emission trading; Climate policies; Air pollution

by Kristin Rypdal 1, Nathan Rive 1, Stefan Åström 2, Niko Karvosenoja 3, Kristin Aunan 4, Jesper L. Bak 4, Kaarle Kupiainen 3 and Jaakko Kukkonen 5
1. CICERO, P.O. Box 1129, Blindern, 0318 Oslo, Norway; Telephone: +47 22858780; fax: +47 22858751
2. IVL, P.O. Box 5302, 400 14 Göteborg, Sweden
3. SYKE, P.O. Box 140, FI-00251 Helsinki, Finland
4. DMU, Box 358, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
5. Suomi Meteorological Institute (FMI), P.O.Box 503, FI-00101 Helsinki, Finland

Energy Policy via Elsevier Science Direct www.ScienceDirect.com
Article in Press, Corrected Proof
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2007.07.022

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