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The perceived inability of climate change mitigation goals alone to mobilize sufficient climate change mitigation efforts has, among other factors, led to growing research on the co-benefits of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This study conducts a systematic review (SR) of the literature on the co-benefits of mitigating GHG emissions resul...
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... For instance, decreased fossil fuel consumption can yield co-benefits in air quality and public health by reducing air pollution, health expenditures, and regulatory costs associated with pollution control and health management (Bollen et al. 2009). In particular, Deng et al. (2018) identified ten co-benefit types and three method categories from the literature review (see Table 1). Moreover, the combination and interaction of different co-benefit categories highlight the need for comprehensive assessments in specific research fields (Deng et al. 2018). ...
... In particular, Deng et al. (2018) identified ten co-benefit types and three method categories from the literature review (see Table 1). Moreover, the combination and interaction of different co-benefit categories highlight the need for comprehensive assessments in specific research fields (Deng et al. 2018). Although climate change policies, programs, and projects are expected to generate significant co-benefits, quantifying their monetary value is challenging due to the complexity of selecting relevant categories and evaluation methods. ...
Beneficial water management practices (BWMPs) have been identified to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in eastern Canada by retrofitting conventional tile drainage with controlled drainage and sub-irrigation. Implementing these practices may also yield additional benefits for farmers and society besides GHG emissions mitigation. This study employs a conceptual framework to quantify the co-benefits of adopting BWMPs in a corn agroecosystem in eastern Canada. The assessment combines financial analysis and life cycle assessment to compare the implementation of BWMPs with the Base technology. This study was based on field experiments for corn production under BWMPs and Base technology during the 2014 and 2015 growing seasons in St. Emmanuel, Quebec. Co-benefits were estimated by calculating the differences in net present value and environmental costs resulting from implementing BWMPs compared with Base technology. The findings show that co-benefits range from $129.42 to $142.03 per hectare under median environmental prices and $158,29 to $231.74 per hectare under upper environmental prices for a 20-year life expectancy of BWMPs implementation. In conclusion, this study underscores the significance of understanding the co-benefits associated with the innovative water management system, as it supports climate change mitigation and adaptation measures at the farm scale. The positive co-benefits highlight the economic and social advantages of implementing BWMPs alongside GHG emission mitigation. Nevertheless, these co-benefits may not be sufficient to encourage voluntary adoption among farmers. Therefore, policymakers should consider implementing supportive policy instruments like green payments and extension activities to facilitate the adoption of BWMPs.
... 30 Health co-benefits were defined as improved public health indicators resulting from climate change mitigation actions. 31 A conceptual framework encompassing the health co-benefits related to climate change mitigation strategies was developed to help design the search strategy ( Fig. 1). We decided to include trials, quasi-experimental, comparative, observational, and modeling studies that reported results related to the health co-benefits of climate change mitigation strategies in South American countries. ...
The accelerated production of greenhouse gases (GHG) due to human activity has led to unprecedented global warming, making climate mitigation strategies crucial for minimizing its impacts. South America, a region highly vulnerable to climate change, stands to benefit from implementing such strategies to reduce future risks and generate health co-benefits. This scoping review, aimed to assess the existing evidence on the health benefits of climate mitigation strategies in South American countries. PubMed, Web of Science, and LILACS databases were searched until June 15, 2023. Nine studies published between 2001 and 2021 were analyzed, focusing on Brazil, Chile, and Bolivia. All the studies identified in this review used scenario modeling. They evaluated various GHG emission mitigation strategies, including land management, reducing livestock production, biofuel production, increased active transportation, renewable energy, and waste reduction. Only one study looked at GHG capture and sequestration through afforestation. Given the limited information available, there is a pressing need for more research on the region's potential health, environmental, and economic co-benefits. This review serves as a starting point and suggests that climate mitigation can offer a range of positive co-benefits, such as improved air quality and increased resilience to climate impacts, thereby advancing public health initiatives.
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MYG was supported by the 10.13039/100010269Wellcome Trust (grant number 209734/Z/17/Z). The other authors did not receive financial support for their research or authorship. The publication of this article was financially supported by Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia.
... Economic benefits may be related not only to the production and export of technologies, but also to the domestic deployment of clean technologies or import-substitution (Hochstetler, 2020;Matsuo & Schmidt, 2019). This is supported by academic work on co-benefits, suggesting that not only economic but also environmental, social and security impacts of mitigation actions are politically relevant (see among others Deng et al., 2017;Karlsson et al., 2020;Mayrhofer & Gupta, 2016). Through tangible and near-term benefits, alliances for ambitious climate action are created 'and [can] overcome long-lasting political deadlocks' (Helgenberger et al., 2017). ...
Policymakers and governments increasingly frame climate protection in terms of green growth, arguing that continued economic growth and climate protection are complementary and mutually beneficial. With such framing, governments hope to
overcome the global common goods problem associated with climate change and to enable higher ambition on climate action within and across states. Yet, no empirical evidence to date has been provided on how widespread the support for green growth is in international climate politics. This paper, therefore, investigates
which countries employ green growth framings at UNFCCC negotiations, and whether this relates to domestic factors, in particular economic structure, level of development and climate impacts. We conduct panel-data analysis on green growth positions derived from hand-coding a unique dataset of High-level
Segment statements at the Convention of the Parties (COPs) from 2010 to 2019 for 151 countries. The results reveal that, to date, green growth proponents are those countries with the most advanced national clean energy technology (CET) capacities – as measured by the Green Complexity Index. The findings highlight
that green growth is not promoted by all countries at international climate negotiations.
... Despite the research trend having grown in the last 5 years, the need for filling this gap in the building sector is still evident. In 2018, Deng et al. [19] conducted a systematic literature review, which returned a classification of the co-benefits based on type, mitigation sector, and geography. Eight sectors were identified: AFOLU (agriculture, forestry, and other land use), electricity, transport, residential, governmental, industrial, marine, and building sector. ...
... I used depending on the field of interest and on the specific study itsel "co-impacts", "ancillary benefits", "side effects", "ancillary impacts" "non-energy benefits", and a unique common definition is still not a In 2013, Jiang et al. [18] pointed out in their work that the foremost its implications, has not yet received particular attention tor and that, consequently, there are no definitions of it in this are research trend having grown in the last 5 years, the need for filling sector is still evident. In 2018, Deng et al. [19] conducted a syste which returned a classification of the co-benefits based on type geography. Eight sectors were identified: AFOLU (agriculture, for electricity, transport, residential, governmental, industrial, mari According to the study, this latter one had the smallest percentag topic (1.4%, Figure 3). . ...
... Eight sectors were identified: AFOLU (agriculture, for electricity, transport, residential, governmental, industrial, mari According to the study, this latter one had the smallest percentag topic (1.4%, Figure 3). . Documents referring to "co-benefits" divided per sector (Elaborated from: [19]). A summary on the main significant uses of the term co-benefits and related terms is presented in Table 1. ...
Towards a carbon-neutral society, the building sector has a pivotal role with still a great potential for improvement. A new generation of buildings is rising but, to set a more ambitious shift in the paradigm and to fully justify the additional efforts (technological and economic) needed to fill the gap between net zero and plus energy performances, it is essential to consider not only the direct effects, but also all the indirect impacts. However, research conducted in the last decade solely focuses on the direct effects, mainly energy savings, while the indirect impacts neither have a clear identity nor terminology and a defined list of the impacts and methodologies for their quantification is still missing. With these premises, a systematic literature review on the current state of the art was performed in this work, with the aim of (i) investigating the heterogeneous terminology used for such indirect effects, (ii) identifying a final potential list of impacts both at the household and at the community level and (iii) their macro-categorizations, and (iv) exploring the current implemented methodologies and indicators for an economic quantification. As a final result of the analysis, the authors propose a unique terminology for addressing the indirect effects of high-performance buildings. This paper sets the needed basis and common ground for future research in this field, meant to economically quantify the indirect effects in the building sector.
... Moreover, important co-benefits can also occur on the opposite side of the coin, when policies and measures in other fields benefit climate objectives, but such synergies are even less studied and promoted [3]. The relevance of climate-related co-benefits has been considered significant in previous studies [1,[4][5][6], and includes improved air quality and diets-which save millions of lives worldwide-as well as reduced fuel poverty and improved energy security. ...
... For example, 'reduced air pollution' and 'improved health' belong to different categories despite being closely related. Deng et al. [6] provide a bibliographic analysis of 1554 papers on the co-benefits of greenhouse gas mitigation. The authors found that impacts on ecosystems, economic activity, health, air pollution and resource efficiency had received most attention, whereas fewer studies had been conducted on areas such as conflict and disaster resilience, poverty alleviation, energy security, technological spill-over, and innovation and food security. ...
... The authors found that impacts on ecosystems, economic activity, health, air pollution and resource efficiency had received most attention, whereas fewer studies had been conducted on areas such as conflict and disaster resilience, poverty alleviation, energy security, technological spill-over, and innovation and food security. Gao et al. [25] focused on only one of the cobenefits identified by Deng et al. [6] in a systematic review of the literature on the public health co-benefits of greenhouse gas emission reductions. Analysing 36 peer-reviewed papers, they identified climate mitigation measures in five key sectors: energy, transportation, food and agriculture, households and industry and economy, concluding that cobenefits can be substantial and thus highly relevant to policy makers. ...
There is strong scientific evidence for the existence of the significant economic value of several climate-related co-benefits. However, these are seldom recognised in policy-making, and knowledge is still scarce on some co-benefit types and categories. To identify research needs and highlight policy-making opportunities, we propose a new framework and three-type-taxonomy of climate-related co-benefits. We define climate policy co-benefits, such as improved air quality, as ‘Type 1’; co-benefits for climate objectives from policy-making in other fields, such as taxation, as ‘Type 2’; and co-benefits from policies designed to achieve multiple objectives as ‘Type 3’. In order to apply the framework and to analyse how co-benefits have been regarded in policy-making in a climate pioneering country, we also explore the case of Sweden. It is shown that several co-benefits exist, but that these are overlooked almost entirely in policy-making, constituting a bias against climate mitigation. In order to counteract this problem, the article presents a number of recommendations, including a call to researchers to identify and quantify additional co-benefits and to policy-makers on governance reforms, including the need to organise policy-making processes and set decision criteria that promote the consideration of co-benefits.
... However, several studies have shown that it also yields considerable co-benefits or ancillary benefits that accrue locally in the regions reducing their emissions (for an overview see, e.g., Rübbelke, 2003;Karlsson et al., 2020). These ancillary benefits include, but are not limited to, a reduction of local air pollutants and associated health issues, improved soil and water quality, higher energy security, or conflict and disaster resilience (see also Deng et al., 2017). Climate policy is therefore referred to as an impure public good that simultaneously generates both global public benefits and local private benefits. ...
Effective combat of international environmental problems regularly necessitates a minimum number of participating countries. Some international environmental treaties like the Paris Agreement combating global warming and the Montreal Protocol protecting the ozone layer required that a minimum participation threshold be met before they entered into force. Albeit the immense challenge to protect the global climate, the Paris Agreement additionally demands to address sustainable development and therefore seeks to take advantage of potential co-benefits of climate protection measures. This article is, to the authors' knowledge, the first to investigate in 3 × 3 normal form games the prospects for effective international cooperation on climate protection if effectiveness requires a minimum number of participating countries. The main findings are, first, that sustainable development co-benefits from mitigation might increase the chance that the minimum participation threshold is met and climate policy will be effective in the end; and second, if domestic ancillary benefits from mitigation are rather small, new organizational designs could create additional sustainability benefits that are limited to mitigating countries. For example, a win-win situation – regarding climate and sustainability – could be achieved by international policy designs that create additional co-benefit spillovers via the establishment of a club pursuing sustainable innovations (in line with UN Sustainable Development Goal 9).
... In recent years, the bibliometric method is more frequently used in greenhouse gases research. For example, greenhouse gas research on a global scale from 2000 to 2014 (Yang et al., 2018), energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in the residential sector (Geng et al., 2017), co-benefits of greenhouse gas mitigation: a review and classification by type, mitigation sector, and geography (Deng et al., 2017), greenhouse gas emissions from landfills (Zhang et al., 2019). Bibliometric analysis technique has been adopted related with rice crop research such as Japanese rice (Morooka et al., 2014), rice physiology and management in China (Peng, 2017), global rice research during 1985-2014 , et al. ...
Based on the Web of Science core database and using bibliometric analysis method, this study analysed 2,680 papers on rice and greenhouse gas topic research till to 22 July 2022, which included 47 highly cited papers and one hot paper, mainly written in English and from 10,116 authors, 2,594 organisations and 111 countries or territories, published in 517 journals and four book series. The top five journals are Science of the Total Environment, Journal of Cleaner Production, Agriculture and Ecosystems Environment, Environmental Science and Pollution Research and Sustainability. The top five countries were Peoples R China, U.S.A., India, Germany and Japan. The top five organisations were the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, CGIAR and Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, each with more than 126 papers. The top four authors were Wassmann Reiner, Pan Genxing, Smith Pete and Cao Cougui. All keywords were separated into 10 clusters with co-occurrence network visualisation using VOSviewer, and the research front was shown by co-occurrence overlay visualisation. The results will help researchers clarify the current research situation, but also provide guidance for future research in rice and greenhouse gases.
... It is regarded as a relatively cost-effective and efficient economic tool for combating climate change (Baranzini et al., 2016). Concerns that climate change mitigation objectives alone may not be enough to mobilize public support for more aggressive GHG emission reduction initiatives have sparked interest in research into the co-benefits of climate change mitigation (Bollen et al., 2009;Deng et al., 2017). Proponents of environmental-related tax emphasize the co-benefit of a cleaner environment, using the tax payments to pay for tax cuts already in place in different sectors, thus yielding a "double dividend" (DD) hypothesis. ...
The increasing human activities amidst competition for resources across the globe has made environmental
challenges an ongoing classic problem, thus prompting policymakers to continually seek effective solution while
ensuring sustainable development. With the wide coverage of the relevance of the double dividend hypothesis in
explaining the co-benefit of environmental tax, there is a dearth of evidence in the literature to suggest that
environmental tax offers green dividends for both the environment and agricultural practice in the European
countries. As such, this study employed the more recent Method of Moments Quantile Regression (MMQR)
alongside other approaches for Europe’s largest agrarian economies (France, Germany, Italy, and Spain) over the
annual period 1995–2020. The investigation affirms the validity of the co-benefit of environmental tax as far as
environmental sustainability and value-added to agriculture are concerned in this panel of ‘Big Four’ economies,
thus motivating the countries to relentlessly pursue the carbon-neutral 2050 target. Moreover, the study aligns
with the expectation that renewable energy utilization and population density are desirable factors for achieving
a carbon-neutral target. Lastly, the findings suggest that environmental quality is attainable in the panel,
especially as increasing income surpasses a certain threshold, thus validating the environmental Kuznets curve
hypothesis. Above all, the findings provide timely policy insight that accommodates both the environmental
sustainability and food security framework of the European Union. The policy options relevant in light of the
study’s conclusions include that the decision makers in the selected agrarian economies should ramp up energy
transition opportunities through a resilient environmental tax system that incentives availability of credit and
investment financing in the agriculture sector.
... Wind energy is one of the climate change mitigation efforts. According to Deng et al. (2018), public concerns about climate change are low due to the unexpectedly high costs of mitigation efforts. Generally, people like to have cheap energy and generate electricity without harmful consequences. ...
... Efforts to mitigate GHG emissions have improved health outcomes such as air pollution-related diseases, communicable diseases and non-communicable diseases. Besides adaptation to climate change, the mitigation effort is the most significant path (Wang & Smith, 1999;Cifuentes et al., 2001;McMichael, 2013;Deng et al., 2018). The advantages of supplying power to the region include decreasing energy security and air pollution, increasing economic impact, improving food security, and diversifying ecosystems. ...
Wind energy is one of the five fuels that can support the reduction of greenhouse gases and climate change impact. Wind energy is one of the most promising renewable energy sources that can be exploited to succeed in 1/20 of the renewable energy mix in Malaysia. This study aimed to determine the value of GHG savings on wind energy potential based on Meteorological Aerodrome Report (METAR) data in Malaysia to establish a suitable wind farm in Kudat and Langkawi Island that can potentially generate electricity. The wind speed data were collected from the METAR report broadcasted hourly. Wind speed extrapolation was based on the selected wind turbine generator (WTG) with 950 kW and 60 kW capacity. The prospect of wind energy was analysed using the Weibull distribution to determine the parameter of shape (k) and scale (c) from the wind speed frequency distribution. Finally, the Annual Energy Production (AEP) and the GHG savings were estimated. Based on the study, the annual reduction of GHG emissions ranges from 150 to 1,300 tonnes of CO2 per year. The ten-year projection roughly estimates about 1,500 to 13,000 tonnes of CO2 per year. Implementing a low-carbon, cost-effective energy source would undoubtedly enhance Malaysia’s sustainable energy system, as proposed by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 7.
... The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the WHO both agree that climate change poses a considerable health threat [20,21]. Concurrently, recent systematic literature reviews have found that actions across sectors to mitigate climate change have significant positive health co-benefits [22,23]. A 2021 WHO report along with an open letter signed by more than 45 million health workers from 102 countries acknowledges the interconnection between human health, our environment and the climate crisis and calls for an immediate decarbonisation of various sectors globally including energy, healthcare, transportation and agriculture [24]. ...
Background: Climate change is one of the largest threats to human health and well-being globally. The healthcare industry itself currently contributes to fueling the climate crisis with its emissions and material consumption. There has been much research on decarbonising hospitals ecological/carbon footprints but very limited study on ways to assist healthcare clinics in transitioning to a low-carbon healthcare system. Methods: A structured literature review was conducted, and the results analysed. Results: The literature review revealed four important areas to act upon to decarbonise a healthcare clinic most efficiently. These are: energy use, waste minimisation/management, the behaviors/attitudes of staff, and decarbonising the supply chain. Conclusions: The pooled literature reveals an evidence-based set of recommendations or guiding principles to decarbonise healthcare clinics the most effectively. To maximise operational effectiveness, how this is achieved will differ between clinics. Although this research is written with reference to Australia, these identified initiatives are likely to be relatable to many other countries healthcare systems. Decarbonising health clinics will contribute to a sector-wide transition to more sustainable healthcare that will lead to improved environmental, social, economic and health outcomes.
