For those who seek regulation based on zero #CO2 only, CO2 causes only ~46% of global warming and hardly impacts the 4-7 million people who die from air pollution each year. We need #100% renewable energy to help eliminate air pollution mortality and slow/reverse global warming
The Social Cost of Pollution (SCOP) is often 10x the Social Cost of Carbon (SCOC). SCOP impacts are immediate and local while SCOC is global and long term. Environmentalists leave much "money on the table" when they focus only on long-term GHG but ignore death and disease today.
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Hi Bob and Marc. I’m doing some CO2 reduction calcs and want to add SCOC/P co-benefits. Do you know any current resources that can provide a reasonable and simple SCOC/P per tCO2e ratio? It’s not the focus of the study, so I need to keep it simple (for workload reasons).
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Based on lit review in Table S3, the 2010 SCOC (USD 2007) is $250 (125-600)/tonne-CO2e (p.25 of Supp Info. This rises to $500 (282-1063)/tonne-CO2e in 2050 (USD 2013) (p. 2109 main text). Pollutant costs are per mortality (p. 2107) but can be translated http://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/USStatesWWS.pdf …
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