Air quality co-benefits of ratcheting up the NDCs

S Rauner, J Hilaire, D Klein, J Strefler, G Luderer - Climatic Change, 2020 - Springer
The current nationally determined contributions, pledged by the countries under the Paris
Agreement, are far from limiting climate change to below 2∘ C temperature increase by the …

Internalising health-economic impacts of air pollution into climate policy: a global modelling study

LA Reis, L Drouet, M Tavoni - The Lancet Planetary Health, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Climate change and air pollution are two major societal problems. Their
complex interplay calls for an advanced evaluation framework that can support decision …

Air quality co-benefits for human health and agriculture counterbalance costs to meet Paris Agreement pledges

T Vandyck, K Keramidas, A Kitous, JV Spadaro… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Local air quality co-benefits can provide complementary support for ambitious climate action
and can enable progress on related Sustainable Development Goals. Here we show that the …

Quantifying air quality co-benefits of climate policy across sectors and regions

T Vandyck, K Keramidas, S Tchung-Ming, M Weitzel… - Climatic Change, 2020 - Springer
The overlap in sources of greenhouse gas and local air pollutant emissions creates scope
for policy measures to limit global warming and improve air quality simultaneously. In a first …

Co-benefits of climate mitigation on air quality and human health in Asian countries

Y Xie, H Dai, X Xu, S Fujimori, T Hasegawa, K Yi… - Environment …, 2018 - Elsevier
Climate change mitigation involves reducing fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas
emissions, which is expensive, particularly under stringent mitigation targets. The co …

Moving towards ambitious climate policies: Monetised health benefits from improved air quality could offset mitigation costs in Europe

S Schucht, A Colette, S Rao, M Holland… - … Science & Policy, 2015 - Elsevier
Air quality and related health effects are not only affected by policies directly addressed at
air pollution but also by other environmental strategies such as climate mitigation. This study …

The reduction in air quality impacts and associated economic benefits of mitigation policy: Summary of results from the EC RTD ClimateCost Project

M Holland, M Amann, C Heyes, P Rafaj, W Schöpp… - 2011 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
The objective of the ClimateCost project is to advance knowledge on the economics of
climate change, focusing on three key areas: the economic costs of climate change (the …

Climate policies can help resolve energy security and air pollution challenges

DL McCollum, V Krey, K Riahi, P Kolp, A Grubler… - Climatic change, 2013 - Springer
This paper assesses three key energy sustainability objectives: energy security
improvement, climate change mitigation, and the reduction of air pollution and its human …

[PDF][PDF] Global energy and climate outlook 2017: how climate policies improve air quality

A Kitous, K Keramidas, T Vandyck… - JRC Science for …, 2017 - publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu
Executive summary This report reveals the value of climate policy in lowering air pollution
impacts. We show that ambitious climate action will decouple economic growth from fossil …

US air quality and health benefits from avoided climate change under greenhouse gas mitigation

F Garcia-Menendez, RK Saari, E Monier… - … Science & Technology, 2015 - ACS Publications
We evaluate the impact of climate change on US air quality and health in 2050 and 2100
using a global modeling framework and integrated economic, climate, and air pollution …