The importance of health co-benefits in macroeconomic assessments of UK Greenhouse Gas emission reduction strategies.

ABSTRACT: We employ a single-country dynamically-recursive Computable General Equilibrium model to make health-focussed macroeconomic assessments of three contingent UK Greenhouse Gas (GHG) mitigation strategies, designed to achieve 2030 emission targets as suggested by the UK Committee on Climate Change. In contrast to previous assessment studies, our main focus is on health co-benefits additional to those from reduced local air pollution. We employ a conservative cost-effectiveness methodology with a zero net cost threshold. Our urban transport strategy (with cleaner vehicles and increased active travel) brings important health co-benefits and is likely to be strongly cost-effective; our food and agriculture strategy (based on abatement technologies and reduction in livestock production) brings wo

SUBMITTER: Jensen HT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4372778 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature