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Title: Marginal Damage of Methane Emissions: Ozone Impacts on Agriculture

Journal Article · · Environmental and Resource Economics
ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [3];  [4]
  1. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), College Park, MD (United States). Joint Global Change Research Institute; Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), Leioa (Spain)
  2. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), College Park, MD (United States). Joint Global Change Research Institute
  3. US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Washington, DC (United States)
  4. European Commission, Ispra (Italy). Joint Research Centre (JRC)

Methane directly contributes to air pollution, as an ozone precursor, and to climate change, generating physical and economic damages to different systems, namely agriculture, vegetation, energy, human health, or biodiversity. The methane-related damages to climate, measured as the Social Cost of Methane, and to human health have been analyzed by different studies and considered by government rulemaking in the last decades, but the ozone-related damages to crop revenues associated to methane emissions have not been incorporated to policy agenda. Using a combination of the Global Change Analysis Model and the TM5-FASST Scenario Screening Tool, we estimate that global marginal agricultural damages range from ~ 423 to 556 $2010/t-CH4, of which 98 $2010/t-CH4 occur in the USA, which is the most affected region due to its role as a major crop producer, followed by China, EU-15, and India. These damages would represent 39–59% of the climate damages and 28–64% of the human health damages associated with methane emissions by previous studies. The marginal damages to crop revenues calculated in this study complement the damages from methane to climate and human health, and provides valuable information to be considered in future cost-benefits analyses.

Research Organization:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE; USEPA
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-76RL01830
OSTI ID:
1963810
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-182993; {"","Journal ID: ISSN 0924-6460"}
Journal Information:
Environmental and Resource Economics, Journal Name: Environmental and Resource Economics Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 84; ISSN 0924-6460
Publisher:
SpringerCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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