THE ANCILLARY BENEFITS AND COSTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK by Alan KRUPNICK, Dallas BURTRAW and Anil MARKANDYA
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Within the broad set of climate change issues, one that is growing in controversy and potential importance is the ancillary benefits and costs of policies to reduce greenhouse gases (GHGs). Ancillary benefits and costs are externalities arising from GHG abatement policies that are achieved jointly with the reduction of GHGs in the atmosphere. Analysts have attempted to identify and in some cases to estimate these benefits, with estimates ranging from a small fraction of GHG mitigation costs to largely offsetting them.
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