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20 Apr 2018 |
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Minding the Climate Gap: What’s at Stake if California’s Climate Law Isn’t Done Right and Right Away
This report explores whether or not implementation of cap-and-trade in California might fail to capture public health benefits, or even make an already inequitable situation worse, taking into account co-pollutants.
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Climate Gap: Inequalities in How Climate Change Hurts Americans & How to Close the Gap
This report explores disparities in the impacts of climate change and the abilities of different groups to adapt to it. It also offers concrete recommendations to closin the climate gap, starting with insuring that climate solutions don’t leave anyone behind.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Cooling the Planet, Clearing the Air: Climate Policy, Carbon Pricing, and Co-Benefits
Policies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions can yield substantial co-benefits via reduced emissions of co-pollutants such as particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, and air toxics. Valuation studies suggest that these benefits may be comparable in magnitude to the value of reduced carbon emissions. However, co-pollutant intensity (the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Driving Change: Reducing Vehicle Miles Traveled in California
Three specific strategies are to be employed to help reduce smissions: Hgiher-density deveopment, investments in alternatives to solo driving, and pricing policies that raise the cost of driving and parking. This report reviews the opportunities and challenges of each of these strategies and assesses California’s recent ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Driving California Forward: Public Health and Societal Economic Benefits of California’s AB 32 Transportation Fuel Policies – LCFS and Cap-and-Trade regulations
This analysis calculates the economic benefit of the LCFS and C&T by evaluating the societal benefits of full implementation in 2020 and 2025, which include 1) avoided public health costs and incidents of illness, 2) avoided fossil fuel dependence costs, and 3) avoided climate change-related costs (see Figure E-1 below for the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The debate on climate change and health in the context of ecological public health: a necessary corrective to Costello et al.’s ‘biggest global health threat’, or co-opted apologists for the neoliberal hegemony?
The threat posed to global health by climate change has been widely discussed internationally. The United Kingdom public health community seem to have accepted this as fact and have called for urgent action on climate change, often through state interventionist mitigation strategies and the adoption of a risk discourse. Putting aside ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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A Health Impact Assessment of California’s Proposed Cap-and-Trade Regulations
Objectives. To identify unintended health effects of California’s controversial cap-and-trade regulations and establish health-promoting policy recommendations, we performed a health impact assessment., Methods. We used literature reviews, public data, and local health surveys to qualitatively assess potential health risks and ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Understanding the Basics of Climate Change Cap- and -Trade: A Local Official’s Guide
This short briefing paper provides a general overivew of the concept of cap-and-trade as it relates to climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It also offers information about key issues of interest to local officials and suggests resources to learn more.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Air Quality and Health Co-Benefits of a Carbon Fee-and-Rebate Bill in Massachusetts
This report builds a model to calculate the health co-benefits that would result from a carbon fee in Massachusetts. The results indicate that the health co-benefits of a carbon fee in Massachusetts can be substantial, even though the policy was not designed as a public health measure. The annual health benefits of the carbon fee ...