| Title | Air quality co-benefits from climate mitigation for human health in South Korea |
| Authors | Kim, Satbyul Estella Xie, Yang Dai, Hancheng Fujimori, Shinichiro Hijioka, Yasuaki Honda, Yasushi Hashizume, Masahiro Masui, Toshihiko Hasegawa, Tomoko Xu, Xinghan Yi, Kan Kim, Ho |
| Affiliation | Natl Inst Environm Studies, Ctr Climate Change Adaptat, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan Natl Inst Environm Studies, Ctr Social & Environm Syst Res, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan Beihang Univ, Sch Econ & Management, Beijing 100191, Peoples R China Peking Univ, Coll Environm Sci & Engn, Beijing, Peoples R China Kyoto Univ, Dept Environm Engn, Kyoto, Japan Univ Tsukuba, Grad Sch Comprehens Human Sci, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan Univ Tokyo, Sch Int Hlth, Grad Sch Med, Dept Global Hlth Policy, Tokyo, Japan Peking Univ, Coll Urban & Environm Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China Seoul Natl Univ, Grad Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Hlth Sci, Seoul, South Korea Beihang Univ, Beijing Adv Innovat Ctr Big Data based Precis Med, Beijing 100191, Peoples R China |
| Keywords | TERM OZONE EXPOSURE ECONOMIC-IMPACTS DAILY MORTALITY CARBON TAX EMISSIONS POLLUTION REDUCTION TARGETS PM2.5 SEOUL |
| Issue Date | Mar-2020 |
| Publisher | ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL |
| Abstract | Climate change mitigation efforts to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have associated costs, but there are also potential benefits from improved air quality, such as public health improvements and the associated cost savings. A multidisciplinary modeling approach can better assess the co-benefits from climate mitigation for human health and provide a justifiable basis for establishment of adequate climate change mitigation policies and public health actions. An integrated research framework was adopted by combining a computable general equilibrium model, an air quality model, and a health impact assessment model, to explore the long-term economic impacts of climate change mitigation in South Korea through 2050. Mitigation costs were further compared with health-related economic benefits under different socioeconomic and climate change mitigation scenarios. Achieving ambitious targets (i.e., stabilization of the radiative forcing level at 3.4 W/m(2)) would cost 1.3-8.5 billion USD in 2050, depending on varying carbon prices from different integrated assessment models. By contrast, achieving these same targets would reduce costs by 23 billion USD from the valuation of avoided premature mortality, 0.14 billion USD from health expenditures, and 0.38 billion USD from reduced lost work hours, demonstrating that health benefits alone noticeably offset the costs of cutting GHG emissions in South Korea. |
| URI | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11897/586000 |
| ISSN | 0160-4120 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.envint.2020.105507 |
| Indexed | SSCI SCI(E) Scopus EI |
| Appears in Collections: | 环境科学与工程学院 城市与环境学院 |
