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Economic Impacts Of Climate Change And Air Pollution In China Through Health And Labor Supply Perspective: An Integrated Assessment Model Analysis

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  • CAN WANG

    (State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control (SKLESPC) and School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 10084, P. R. China)

  • HAI HUANG

    (State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control (SKLESPC) and School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 10084, P. R. China)

  • WENJIA CAI

    (#x2020;Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling and Department of Earth System, Science Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China)

  • MENGZHEN ZHAO

    (#x2020;Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modeling and Department of Earth System, Science Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China)

  • JIN LI

    (State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control (SKLESPC) and School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 10084, P. R. China)

  • SHIHUI ZHANG

    (State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control (SKLESPC) and School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 10084, P. R. China)

  • YUAN LIU

    (#x2021;School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo 186-8601, Japan)

Abstract

An energy supply dominated by the use of fossil fuels causes both climate change and air pollution, which have negative impacts on human capital via both health and productivity. In addition, different people are affected differently because of factors such as age, gender and education level. To enhance the understanding of the benefits of low carbon transition from the labor supply perspective and help to identify strategies of collaborative control for CO2 and local air pollutants in China, an integrated assessment model linking the air quality module and the health impact module with a disaggregated labor sector computable general equilibrium (CGE) economic system is developed and applied in this study. Results show some key findings. First, renewable energy development and carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies will contribute significantly to GDP in terms of their impact on air quality improvement by 0.99% and 0.54%, respectively, in 2050. Second, due to differences in labor composition, air pollution has, and will continue to have, the greatest impact on sectors with a higher proportion of male and lower-educated workers — such as the coal sector, and it will have the least impact on sectors with a higher proportion of female and higher-educated workers — such as the public administration sector. Third, the different impacts of sector output will increase economic inequality.Highlights•The economic impact of climate change and air pollution is assessed.•A CGE model with disaggregated labor sectors is developed.•The secondary industry is most affected by pollution from a health perspective.•Low-income groups suffer the largest loss of income due to pollution.•A low carbon policy will improve air quality and economic equity.

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  • Can Wang & Hai Huang & Wenjia Cai & Mengzhen Zhao & Jin Li & Shihui Zhang & Yuan Liu, 2020. "Economic Impacts Of Climate Change And Air Pollution In China Through Health And Labor Supply Perspective: An Integrated Assessment Model Analysis," Climate Change Economics (CCE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 11(03), pages 1-28, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ccexxx:v:11:y:2020:i:03:n:s2010007820410018
    DOI: 10.1142/S2010007820410018
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    1. Fan, Shuting & An, Kangxin & Zhang, Shihui & Wang, Can, 2024. "Cost-effective energy development pathway considering air quality co-benefits under climate target: A case study of Anhui Province in China," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 353(PA).
    2. Jia, Zhijie & Wen, Shiyan & Sun, Zao, 2022. "Current relationship between coal consumption and the economic development and China's future carbon mitigation policies," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 162(C).
    3. Cao, Jing & Dai, Hancheng & Li, Shantong & Guo, Chaoyi & Ho, Mun & Cai, Wenjia & He, Jianwu & Huang, Hai & Li, Jifeng & Liu, Yu & Qian, Haoqi & Wang, Can & Wu, Libo & Zhang, Xiliang, 2021. "The general equilibrium impacts of carbon tax policy in China: A multi-model comparison," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 99(C).

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