Economic interactions between climate change and outdoor air pollution

Climate change and outdoor air pollution are two of the most challenging environmental issues that modern society faces. These challenges are strongly linked through their emission sources, the sectors they affect and the policies that can be implemented to reduce emissions. They also interact in th...

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Published inIDEAS Working Paper Series from RePEc no. 148; pp. 0_1 - 52
Main Authors Lanzi, Elisa, Dellink, Rob
Format Paper
LanguageEnglish
Published Paris OECD Publishing 03.07.2019
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
SeriesOECD Environment Working Papers
Subjects
Agriculture
Air pollution
Air pollution effects
Climate change
Climate effects
computable general equilibrium models
Cooling effects
Economic analysis
Economic development
Economic growth
Economic models
Emissions
Emissions control
Environmental policy
Farm buildings
GDP
Greenhouse effect
Greenhouse gases
Gross Domestic Product
Industrial plant emissions
International trade
Policies
Pollutants
Pollution
Pollution sources
East Asia
China
India
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Summary:Climate change and outdoor air pollution are two of the most challenging environmental issues that modern society faces. These challenges are strongly linked through their emission sources, the sectors they affect and the policies that can be implemented to reduce emissions. They also interact in the way they affect economic growth in the coming decades, although this aspect has been neglected in the literature. This paper presents the first global analysis of the joint economic consequences of climate change and outdoor air pollution to 2060, in the absence of new policies to address these challenges. A common methodology and a consistent modelling framework is used to specify the main economic interaction effects. While this paper provides a useful framework to analyse the interactions between two environmental issues in the economic system, the results need to be interpreted carefully, because of limited data availability.
ISSN:1997-0900
DOI:10.1787/8e4278a2-en