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The indirect costs and benefits of greenhouse gas limitations

Abstract

The purpose of this report is to evaluate GHG limitation issues in a broader context. This includes the impacts of projects on vulnerable groups, the impacts on the environment more generally and the impacts on sustainability in a wider sense. It also offers some advice on how a decision-making framework can bring together these different dimensions. The structure of the guidelines is as follows. Section 2 introduces essential cost concepts and discusses the adjustments needed to the financial costs of different components, to arrive at the true economic costs. Section 3 looks at the macro-economic impacts of different GHG limitation project/policies. Section 4 discusses the way in which the sustainability concerns of such projects/policies can be monitored. Section 5 brings these different components together and looks at different methods of project selection. Section 6 provides a basic framework of impacts that are likely to arise in different GHG-related projects/policies, and what kind of method of estimation is available for these different impacts. Sections 7 to 9 go into greater depth on specific impacts. Sections 7 and 8 look at the employment and distributional effects respectively, and how they might be estimated. Section 9 evaluates the benefits in terms of changes  More>>
Authors:
Publication Date:
Dec 31, 1998
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
NEI-DK-3436
Reference Number:
SCA: 290300; 540120; PA: DK-99:001308; EDB-99:045186; SN: 99002083676
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 1998; Related Information: Economics of Greenhouse Gas Limitations. Handbook Reports
Subject:
29 ENERGY PLANNING AND POLICY; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; GREENHOUSE GASES; AIR POLLUTION ABATEMENT; ECONOMIC IMPACT; SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS; COST; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENERGY POLICY
OSTI ID:
335540
Research Organizations:
United Nations Environmental Program, Roskilde (Denmark). Collaborating Centre on Energy and Environment
Country of Origin:
Denmark
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ON: DE99738837; ISBN 87-550-2458-0; TRN: DK9901308
Availability:
OSTI as DE99738837
Submitting Site:
DK
Size:
64 p.
Announcement Date:
May 14, 1999

Citation Formats

Markandya, A. The indirect costs and benefits of greenhouse gas limitations. Denmark: N. p., 1998. Web.
Markandya, A. The indirect costs and benefits of greenhouse gas limitations. Denmark.
Markandya, A. 1998. "The indirect costs and benefits of greenhouse gas limitations." Denmark.
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abstractNote = {The purpose of this report is to evaluate GHG limitation issues in a broader context. This includes the impacts of projects on vulnerable groups, the impacts on the environment more generally and the impacts on sustainability in a wider sense. It also offers some advice on how a decision-making framework can bring together these different dimensions. The structure of the guidelines is as follows. Section 2 introduces essential cost concepts and discusses the adjustments needed to the financial costs of different components, to arrive at the true economic costs. Section 3 looks at the macro-economic impacts of different GHG limitation project/policies. Section 4 discusses the way in which the sustainability concerns of such projects/policies can be monitored. Section 5 brings these different components together and looks at different methods of project selection. Section 6 provides a basic framework of impacts that are likely to arise in different GHG-related projects/policies, and what kind of method of estimation is available for these different impacts. Sections 7 to 9 go into greater depth on specific impacts. Sections 7 and 8 look at the employment and distributional effects respectively, and how they might be estimated. Section 9 evaluates the benefits in terms of changes in environmental damage resulting from GHG projects/policies. Section 10 provides three case studies in which the methods outlined in the report are applied. These case studies consider a biogas plant in Tanzania, a forestry project in the Russian Federation, and an energy efficiency project in Thailand. Section 11 concludes the report. (au) 59 refs.}
place = {Denmark}
year = {1998}
month = {Dec}
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