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Global Energy and Climate Outlook 2017: How climate policies improve air quality

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This study shows that achieving the climate change mitigation target of staying below 2°C temperature rise is possible technically – thanks to an acceleration of decarbonisation trends, an increased electrification of final demand and large changes in the primary energy mix that include a phase out of coal and a reduction of oil and gas – and is consistent with economic growth. It yields co-benefits via improved air quality – including avoided deaths, reduction of respiratory diseases and agricultural productivity improvement – that largely offset the cost of climate change mitigation. These co-benefits arise without extra investment costs and are additional to the benefits of avoiding global warming and its impact on the economy.

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  • Alban Kitous & Kimon Keramidas & Toon Vandyck & Bert Saveyn & Rita Van Dingenen & Joe Spadaro & Mike Holland, 2017. "Global Energy and Climate Outlook 2017: How climate policies improve air quality," JRC Research Reports JRC107944, Joint Research Centre.
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    1. José M. Rueda-Cantuche & Tamas Revesz & Antonio F. Amores & Agustín Velázquez & Marian Mraz & Emanuele Ferrari & Alfredo J. Mainar-Causapé & Letizia Montinari & Bert Saveyn, 2020. "Improving the European input–output database for global trade analysis," Journal of Economic Structures, Springer;Pan-Pacific Association of Input-Output Studies (PAPAIOS), vol. 9(1), pages 1-16, December.
    2. Alban Kitous & Kimon Keramidas, 2017. "Global Energy and Climate Outlook 2017: Greenhouse gas emissions and energy balances: Supplementary material to "Global Energy and Climate Outlook 2017: How climate policies improve air quality&q," JRC Research Reports JRC107366, Joint Research Centre.
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    climate; mitigation; GHG emissions; energy; energy demand; energy supply; power generation; energy investment; modelling; POLES; GEM-E3; TM5-FASST; air pollution; air quality; mitigation cost; macroeconomic impacts; health impacts;
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