Workshop on Assessing the Ancillary Benefits and Costs of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Strategies, Washington DC, 27-29 March 2000

This IPCC Workshop co-sponsored by OECD, RFF, Statistics Norway, USDoE, US EPA and WRI was organised 27-29 March 2000 to gather experts from around the world to seek to:

• establish a common basis of understanding about the conceptual and empirical elements of ancillary benefits and costs of climate change policies;
• identify options for integrating ancillary benefits/costs into policy design and analysis;
• and identify research gaps and fruitful areas for further research to narrow uncertainties about this issue and make the analysis more useful for policy-makers, with a special focus on domestic U.S. research priorities.

Order the Proceedings: Ancillary Benefits and Costs of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation

Framework for Estimating Ancillary Benefits and Costs

• Ancillary Benefits and Costs of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation: An Overview, Devra Lee Davis, Alan Krupnick and Gene McGlynn
• The Ancillary Benefits and Costs of Climate Change Mitigation: A Conceptual Framework , Alan Krupnick, Dallas Burtraw and Anil Markandya
• Baseline Issues in the Estimation of the Ancillary Benefits of GHG Mitigation Policies , Richard D. Morgenstern
• Extending Integrated Climate Assessment Models to include Ancillary Benefits: Problems and Prospects , Hugh Pitcher

Discussion: Hadi Dowlatabadi

• The Ancillary Health Benefits and Costs of GHG Mitigation: Scope, Scale and Credibility , Devra Lee Davis, Alan Krupnick and George Thurston

Discussion: Lester Lave

• Estimating Ancillary Impacts, Benefits and Costs on Ecosystems from proposed GHG Mitigation Policies , Dale S. Rothman

Discussion: Corjan Brink

• Estimating Ancillary Impacts, Benefits and Costs of GHG Mitigation Policies in the Transport Sector , Stef Proost

Discussion: Philippe Crabbe

Case Studies of Ancillary Costs and Benefits

Asia and Latin America

• Preliminary Estimation of the Potential Ancillary Benefits for Chile , Luis A. Cifuentes, Enzo Sauma, Hector Jorquera and Felipe Soto
• Health and Economic Values for Mortality and Morbidity Cases associated with Air Pollution in Brazil , Ronaldo Serôa da Motta, Ramon Arigoni Ortiz and Sandro de Freitas Ferreira
• Ancillary Benefits in Mexico , Julia Martinez
• Evaluation of Health effects of Pollution , Victor Hugo Borja-Aburto, José Alberto Rosales-Castillo, Victor Manuel Torres-Meza, Germán Corey and Gustavo Olaíz-Fernández;
• Studies on Health Benefit Estimation of Air Pollution in Korea, Seunghun Joh
• The Health Benefits of Controlling Carbon Emissions in China , Richard F. Garbaccio, Mun S. Ho and Dale W. Jorgensen
• Ancillary Benefits Estimation in Developing Countries: A Comparative Assessment , David O'Connor

Discussion: Leena Srivastava

Europe and North America

• Reduced Damage to Health and Environment from Energy Saving in Hungary , Kristin Aunan, H. Asbjørn Aaheim and Hans M. Seip

Discussion: Alan Miller

• Ancillary Benefits of GHG Mitigation in Europe: SO2, NOx and PM10 Reductions from Policies to meet Kyoto Targets using the E3ME Model and EXTERNE valuations , Terry Barker and Knut Einar Rosendahl

Discussion: Shunsuke Mori

• Economic Evaluation of Health Impacts due to Road Traffic-Related Air Pollution: An Impact Assessment Project of Austria, France and Switzerland , H. Sommer, N. Künzli, R. Seethaler, O. Chanel, M. Herry, S. Masson, J-C. Vergnaud, P. Filliger, F. Horak Jr., R. Kaiser, S. Medina, V. Puybonnieux-Texier, P. Quénel, J. Schneider, M. Studnicka

Discussion: Anil Markandya

• Estimating the Ancillary Benefits of GHG Mitigation Policies in the Electricity Sector in the United States , Dallas Burtraw and Michael A. Toman

Discussion: Peter Nagelhout

• Interim report from Canada , Jay Barclay

Discussion: Maureen Cropper

Links to Policy-Making

• Policy Frameworks for the Ancillary Benefits of Climate Change Policies , David Pearce
• Reducing Greenhouse Gases and Air Pollution, STAPPA and ALAPCO , presented by Ken Colburn
• Ancillary Benefits in the Policy Process , Jay Barclay

Discussion: Thomas Sterner and Tom Roper

Download the list of Participants .

Also available: Understanding the ancillary effects of climate change policies: A research agenda