TY - JOUR
T1 - Integrating Global Climate Change Mitigation Goals with Other Sustainability Objectives
T2 - A Synthesis
AU - Von Stechow, Christoph
AU - McCollum, David
AU - Riahi, Keywan
AU - Minx, Jan C.
AU - Kriegler, Elmar
AU - Van Vuuren, Detlef P.
AU - Jewell, Jessica
AU - Robledo-Abad, Carmenza
AU - Hertwich, Edgar
AU - Tavoni, Massimo
AU - Mirasgedis, Sevastianos
AU - Lah, Oliver
AU - Roy, Joyashree
AU - Mulugetta, Yacob
AU - Dubash, Navroz K.
AU - Bollen, Johannes
AU - Ürge-Vorsatz, Diana
AU - Edenhofer, Ottmar
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2015/11/4
Y1 - 2015/11/4
N2 - Achieving a truly sustainable energy transition requires progress across multiple dimensions beyond climate change mitigation goals. This article reviews and synthesizes results from disparate strands of literature on the coeffects of mitigation to inform climate policy choices at different governance levels. The literature documents many potential cobenefits of mitigation for nonclimate objectives, such as human health and energy security, but little is known about their overall welfare implications. Integrated model studies highlight that climate policies as part of well-designed policy packages reduce the overall cost of achieving multiple sustainability objectives. The incommensurability and uncertainties around the quantification of coeffects become, however, increasingly pervasive the more the perspective shifts from sectoral and local to economy wide and global, the more objectives are analyzed, and the more the results are expressed in economic rather than nonmonetary terms. Different strings of evidence highlight the role and importance of energy demand reductions for realizing synergies across multiple sustainability objectives.
AB - Achieving a truly sustainable energy transition requires progress across multiple dimensions beyond climate change mitigation goals. This article reviews and synthesizes results from disparate strands of literature on the coeffects of mitigation to inform climate policy choices at different governance levels. The literature documents many potential cobenefits of mitigation for nonclimate objectives, such as human health and energy security, but little is known about their overall welfare implications. Integrated model studies highlight that climate policies as part of well-designed policy packages reduce the overall cost of achieving multiple sustainability objectives. The incommensurability and uncertainties around the quantification of coeffects become, however, increasingly pervasive the more the perspective shifts from sectoral and local to economy wide and global, the more objectives are analyzed, and the more the results are expressed in economic rather than nonmonetary terms. Different strings of evidence highlight the role and importance of energy demand reductions for realizing synergies across multiple sustainability objectives.
KW - Air quality
KW - Cobenefits
KW - Energy demand reduction
KW - Energy efficiency
KW - Energy security
KW - Multiple objectives
KW - Welfare-theoretical framework
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U2 - 10.1146/annurev-environ-021113-095626
DO - 10.1146/annurev-environ-021113-095626
M3 - Review Article
AN - SCOPUS:84946828546
SN - 1543-5938
VL - 40
SP - 363
EP - 394
JO - Annual Review of Environment and Resources
JF - Annual Review of Environment and Resources
ER -