Co-benefits

An integrated approach to managing climate change, energy and air pollution makes sense and can offer multiple benefits (“co-benefits”) in the form of reduced air emissions and associated health and climate change risks, improved energy security and large cost reductions (1).

The co-benefits approach is supported by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which in its Fourth Assessment Report (2007) indicated that “Integrating air pollution abatement and climate change...

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