GC42C:
Linkages Between Climate Policies and Multiple Sustainable Development Goals I


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Session ID#: 59042

Session Description:
Climate policy has important linkages with other sustainable development goals, such as human health, clean water, affordable energy, etc. For instance, reducing fossil energy to address climate change can bring substantial air quality and health co-benefits, while the implications on water use will depend on the actual choice of low-carbon technologies. In addition, without additional support for energy access, climate policies could make fossil energy more expensive and create additional hurdles for poor households to switch to modern fuels.

This session aims to bring together researchers from various scientific disciplines to generate policy-relevant insights for real-world decision-making. We welcome contributions on topics including but not limited to: 1) integrated assessment modeling to study the interactions between carbon mitigation and other sustainability challenges; 2) co-benefits of climate policies on local environmental goals, e.g. air quality, water, etc.; 3) how practitioners view multiple objectives and how to facilitate integrated policymaking.

Primary Convener:  Wei Peng, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
Conveners:  Hancheng Dai, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China and Fabian Wagner, IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
Primary Liaison:  Wei Peng, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
Chairs:  Wei Peng, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States and Hancheng Dai, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China
OSPA Liaison:  Fabian Wagner, IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria

Cross-Listed:
  • PA - Public Affairs
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0230 Impacts of climate change: human health [GEOHEALTH]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
6304 Benefit-cost analysis [POLICY SCIENCES]
6334 Regional planning [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Deep Decarbonization Strategies and their Implications for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (Invited) (429623)
Keywan Riahi, IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria and Volker Krey, IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Energy, Climate, and Environment, Laxenburg, Austria
Managing the distributional effects of energy taxes and subsidy removal in Latin America and the Caribbean (423767)
Kuishuang Feng, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, United States, Klaus Hubacek, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, Yu Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Global Change Science, Cambridge, United States, Estefania Marchan, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington D.C., United States and Adrien Vogt-Schilb, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC, United States
Population, sustainable development, and climate change policy (Invited) (413810)
Brian C O'Neill, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and John Bongaarts, Population Council, New York, United States
Quantifying the Benefits of Clean Energy Strategies to Co-Manage Air Quality and Climate Mitigation Goals. (395310)
David Abel1, Fabian Wagner2, Matthew Gidden2, Tracey Holloway1 and Monica Harkey3, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (2)IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, (3)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States
The Impact of Human Health Cobenefits on Evaluations of Global Climate Policy (378618)
Noah C Scovronick1, Mark Budolfson2, Francis Dennig3, Frank Cooper Errickson4, Marc Fleurbaey5, Wei Peng6, Robert H Socolow5, Dean Spears7 and Fabian Wagner8, (1)Emory University, Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Atlanta, United States, (2)University of Vermont, Burlington, United States, (3)Yale-NUS, Singapore, Singapore, (4)Princeton University, School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton, United States, (5)Princeton University, Princeton, United States, (6)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (7)University of Texas, Austin, Austin, United States, (8)IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria

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