2002 World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists

A policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has an impact at global level and brings also benefits locally by reducing other air pollutants linked to energy and these benefits will accrue to the current generation and mostly to the population undertaking the mitigation actions. In view of the Kyoto target for Belgium and the different agreements signed by Belgium to reduce local pollutants linked to energy, a policy fully exploiting these mutual benefits seems desirable. This paper explores this issue with the Belgian MARKAL model, a dynamic energy optimization model, that allows to compute the external cost and benefits of pollutants linked to energy consumption, inclusive their abatement cost and to integrate in the policy evaluation the interactions between pollutants and their abatement. The importance of defining policies integrating such interactions is evaluated for Belgium by comparing a policy addressing local pollution, a policy addressing global warming and a policy combining both.



	Paper Title:	Interaction Between Local Air Pollution And Global Warming And Its Policy Implications For Belgium
	Presenting Author:	Denise Van Regemorter (KuLeuven)
	Coauthor 1:	Proost Stef
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	Abstract:	A policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has an impact at global level and brings also benefits locally by reducing other air pollutants linked to energy and these benefits will accrue to the current generation and mostly to the population undertaking the mitigation actions. In view of the Kyoto target for Belgium and the different agreements signed by Belgium to reduce local pollutants linked to energy, a policy fully exploiting these mutual benefits seems desirable. This paper explores this issue with the Belgian MARKAL model, a dynamic energy optimization model, that allows to compute the external cost and benefits of pollutants linked to energy consumption, inclusive their abatement cost and to integrate in the policy evaluation the interactions between pollutants and their abatement. The importance of defining policies integrating such interactions is evaluated for Belgium by comparing a policy addressing local pollution, a policy addressing global warming and a policy combining both.
	Link to paper:	http://weber.ucsd.edu/~carsonvs/papers/667.doc

	Session / Day / Time	16B / Thursday / 2:15 - 4:15 pm

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