The truth about co-benefits: a multidimensional feasibility assessment for thailand and beyond
Research has yielded increasingly robust estimates of the co-benefits from mitigating climate change while reducing air pollution, improving health, and meeting other development needs. Though quantifying these often hidden benefits could ease cost concerns and lower technological constraints for de...
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| author | Eric Zusman Kaoru Akahoshi Tatsuya Hanaoka Christopher S Malley Supat Wangwongwatana Nutthajit Onmek Ittipol Paw-armart Kim Oanh Nguyen Thi Lai Nguyen Huy Johan C I Kuylenstierna Tomoki Hirayama Yurie Goto Kawashima Kazumasa Markus Amann Zbigniew Klimont Jessica Slater |
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| description | Research has yielded increasingly robust estimates of the co-benefits from mitigating climate change while reducing air pollution, improving health, and meeting other development needs. Though quantifying these often hidden benefits could ease cost concerns and lower technological constraints for development-friendly climate solutions, achieving co-benefits frequently requires overcoming difficult-to-measure social and institutional barriers. This study extends insights from research focusing on quantitatively assessing the feasibility of a 1.5 °C future to build a multidimensional framework for measuring different barriers to achieving co-benefits. The framework offers a novel yet generalizable approach for bringing context-appropriate assessments of different dimensions of feasibility into the integrated assessment modelling that underpins work on co-benefits. It then outlines five steps for applying that framework to evaluate the size of different barriers for transport, agricultural and residential energy co-benefit solutions in Thailand. The results demonstrate that the sum of the delays from social/institutional barriers exceed economic/technological barriers for four out of six studied solutions. These delays also lead to increases of 24% to 31% in PM _2.5 emissions relative to a no-barriers effective implementation scenario between 2015 and 2030 and 2040. The feasibility framework can be integrated into not only national policy scenarios but also project assessments, following trends in carbon finance. An international barriers database as well as strengthening links to work on barriers and technological diffusion, transaction costs, and multi-level transitions can also help spread multi-dimensional feasibility assessments across countries and scales. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-5d92e986df8b497192b7a39900a82f5b2025-02-07T12:58:18ZengIOP PublishingEnvironmental Research Communications2515-76202025-01-017202500910.1088/2515-7620/adae5eThe truth about co-benefits: a multidimensional feasibility assessment for thailand and beyondEric Zusman0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3819-9193Kaoru Akahoshi1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7163-0251Tatsuya Hanaoka2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8384-7383Christopher S Malley3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5897-9977Supat Wangwongwatana4Nutthajit Onmek5Ittipol Paw-armart6Kim Oanh Nguyen Thi7https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0367-0013Lai Nguyen Huy8https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1405-3456Johan C I Kuylenstierna9Tomoki Hirayama10Yurie Goto11Kawashima Kazumasa12Markus Amann13Zbigniew Klimont14Jessica Slater15The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan; National Institute Environmental Studies, JapanThe Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, JapanNational Institute Environmental Studies, JapanStockholm Environment Institute, University of York , York, United KingdomThamasatt University , ThailandBansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University , ThailandPollution Control Department, ThailandEnvironmental Engineering and Management, Asian Institute of Technology , Pathumthani, ThailandCenter for Nexus of Air Quality, Health, Ecosystem and Climate, Asian Institute of Technology , Pathumthani, ThailandStockholm Environment Institute, University of York , York, United KingdomMizuho Research and Technologies, JapanMizuho Research and Technologies, JapanMitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting, JapanWorld Bank, Washington D.C., United States of AmericaInternational Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, AustriaInternational Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, AustriaResearch has yielded increasingly robust estimates of the co-benefits from mitigating climate change while reducing air pollution, improving health, and meeting other development needs. Though quantifying these often hidden benefits could ease cost concerns and lower technological constraints for development-friendly climate solutions, achieving co-benefits frequently requires overcoming difficult-to-measure social and institutional barriers. This study extends insights from research focusing on quantitatively assessing the feasibility of a 1.5 °C future to build a multidimensional framework for measuring different barriers to achieving co-benefits. The framework offers a novel yet generalizable approach for bringing context-appropriate assessments of different dimensions of feasibility into the integrated assessment modelling that underpins work on co-benefits. It then outlines five steps for applying that framework to evaluate the size of different barriers for transport, agricultural and residential energy co-benefit solutions in Thailand. The results demonstrate that the sum of the delays from social/institutional barriers exceed economic/technological barriers for four out of six studied solutions. These delays also lead to increases of 24% to 31% in PM _2.5 emissions relative to a no-barriers effective implementation scenario between 2015 and 2030 and 2040. The feasibility framework can be integrated into not only national policy scenarios but also project assessments, following trends in carbon finance. An international barriers database as well as strengthening links to work on barriers and technological diffusion, transaction costs, and multi-level transitions can also help spread multi-dimensional feasibility assessments across countries and scales.https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/adae5eco-benefitsintegrated assessment modelsmultidimensional feasibilitybarrier analysisaccelerating transitions |
| spellingShingle | Eric Zusman Kaoru Akahoshi Tatsuya Hanaoka Christopher S Malley Supat Wangwongwatana Nutthajit Onmek Ittipol Paw-armart Kim Oanh Nguyen Thi Lai Nguyen Huy Johan C I Kuylenstierna Tomoki Hirayama Yurie Goto Kawashima Kazumasa Markus Amann Zbigniew Klimont Jessica Slater The truth about co-benefits: a multidimensional feasibility assessment for thailand and beyond Environmental Research Communications co-benefits integrated assessment models multidimensional feasibility barrier analysis accelerating transitions |
| title | The truth about co-benefits: a multidimensional feasibility assessment for thailand and beyond |
| title_full | The truth about co-benefits: a multidimensional feasibility assessment for thailand and beyond |
| title_fullStr | The truth about co-benefits: a multidimensional feasibility assessment for thailand and beyond |
| title_full_unstemmed | The truth about co-benefits: a multidimensional feasibility assessment for thailand and beyond |
| title_short | The truth about co-benefits: a multidimensional feasibility assessment for thailand and beyond |
| title_sort | truth about co benefits a multidimensional feasibility assessment for thailand and beyond |
| topic | co-benefits integrated assessment models multidimensional feasibility barrier analysis accelerating transitions |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/adae5e |
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