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The ancillary carbon benefits of SO2 reductions from a small-boiler policy in Taiyuan, PRC [1]

Proposals for greenhouse-gas reductions have been met with widespread skepticism in the developing world, in part because such countries find their conventional air-pollution problems more pressing. The goal of this article is to examine whether reductions in carbon emissions that are ancillary to conventional pollutant reductions from a policy to phase out small boilers in downtown Taiyuan, China are large enough to make such policies attractive carbon reducing investments to developed countries.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2004
Richard Morgenstern [2], Alan Krupnick [3], Xuehua Zhang [4]
Journal of Environment & Development [5]
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Tags:
Air Pollution [6], Air Pollution Control [7], Carbon Dioxide [8], Green House Gases [9], Climate Mitigation [10], Coal [11], Informal Sector [12], China [13]
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