Policy Frameworks for the Ancillary Benefits of Climate Change Policies
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Most environmental policy is targeted at specific goals: a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, achievement of some interim deposition or concentration level of air pollutants, improvements in water quality etc. These are policy targets or policy levels. Achieving given targets can involve different policy choices: standard setting, environmental taxes, public information campaigns, negotiated agreements etc. Many of these choices can be combined so that policy measures become hybrids or policy mixes. Any policy instrument or mix of instruments may have an impact on policy levels which are not the direct target of the policy in question. Thus, climate change policies which involve measures to reduce carbon dioxide emission levels may also have a number of other effects:
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