This report uses new modeling tools to examine the full range of benefits ambitious climate mitigation policies can produce across the transportation, industry and building sectors in the United States, China, the European Union, India, Mexico and Brazil. This report also describes the multiple benefits of four development project simulations scaled up to the national level. The report builds on r...

The article highlights the effect of air pollution on worker's productivity suggesting that improved environmental quality can likely enhance productivity through the creation of healthier workfroce. The same way goes with improved air quality leading to improvements in worker productivity at the micro level across a range of sectors including agriculture, manufacturing, and the service sectors....

Economics plays a vital role in health policy-making and investments to reduce air pollution; in helping to understand the costs of health care; and in determining nations’ wealth and ability to invest in health and well-being....

Within the framework of the REEEM project this report analyses health impacts and external costs due to air pollution as one indicator of a sustainable energy system as part of the REEEM Work Package 5 on Environment, Health and Resources. To achieve clean air and a low-carbon society, climate change mitigation and air pollution control policies need to be considered simultaneously in an integrate...

This report is a cross-sectional study, with retrospective and prospective data collection, using a mix of methods: questionnaire application, interviews with medical and non-medical personnel and government officers, and a review of the literature. It looks into the economic impacts to health caused by air pollution....

This working paper evaluates the costs and benefits, in the form of avoided social costs, of advanced vehicle emission and fuel quality standards in Indonesia....

This study provides information to policymakers in Nigeria to support a transition to soot-free road transport and maximize its net societal benefits. The transition is important because the health burden from air pollution in Nigeria is significant and growing....

This study estimates the costs and benefits of adopting Euro VI standards in diesel HDVs in South Africa under different timelines of fuel quality and emission standard advancements. Based on the results, we also make policy recommendations that would reduce HDV emissions and improve air quality and public health in South Africa....

The Guidelines for Preparing Economic Analyses developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are designed to provide assistance to analysts in the economic analysis of environmental policies, but they do not provide a rigid blueprint or a “cookbook” for all policy assessments. The most productive and illuminating approaches for particular situations will depend on a variety of case-s...

The guidance document provides a practical framework that can be used to identify, prioritise and include mitigation measures that can increase a country’s climate change mitigation ambition through actions that improve local air quality. It also outlines how this can be reflected in the updated Nationally Determined Contribution and accompanying information....