Climate Change Mitigation, Air Pollution, and Environmental Justice in California

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (18) ◽  
pp. 10829-10838 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christa M. Anderson ◽  
Kendall A. Kissel ◽  
Christopher B. Field ◽  
Katharine J. Mach
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Change Mitigation

Sustainable energy towards air pollution and climate change mitigation

2020 ◽  
Vol 260 ◽  
pp. 109978 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adedayo Rasak Adedeji ◽  
Fauzi Zaini ◽  
Sathyajith Mathew ◽  
Lalit Dagar ◽  
Mohammad Iskandar Petra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Sustainable Energy ◽  
Change Mitigation

scholarly journals Environmental Justice and Regional Political Ecology converge in the other California

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan K. London
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Regional Planning ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Regional Climate ◽  
Regional Climate Change ◽  
Regional Strategies ◽  
Justice Movements ◽  
Change Mitigation

This article illuminates the value of the concept of the region in political ecology and environmental justice studies by presenting three arguments about the role of regions in environmental justice social movements engaged in climate change mitigation in California's San Joaquin Valley. First, regional planning agencies and environmental justice advocates are engaged in conflicts over not only the content of regional climate change plans, but the very definitions of region and the authority used to put these regional visions into action. Second, regional organizing provides environmental justice movements with new opportunities to address regional economic patterns and to negotiate with regional planning agencies, both of which influence local manifestations of environmental injustice. Third, regional strategies raise significant dilemmas for these movements as they try to sustain engagement across extensive spatial territories and engage with a broad set of policy and economic protagonists. Together, this analysis demonstrates that a dynamic approach to regions, regionalism, and regionalization can assist political ecology and environmental justice scholars in their common aim of understanding the co-production of social and environmental inequity and collective action to change it.Key Words: Environmental justice, regional political ecology, climate change mitigation, regional planning, rural community development

scholarly journals An Alternative Co-Benefit Framework Prioritizing Health Impacts: Potential Air Pollution and Climate Change Mitigation Pathways through Energy Sector Fuel Substitution in South Korea

Climate ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Dafydd Phillips ◽  
Tae Yong Jung
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Respiratory Infections ◽  
Chronic Obstructive ◽  
Years Of Life Lost ◽  
Premature Deaths ◽  
Fuel Substitution ◽  
Change Mitigation

South Korea had the highest annual average PM2.5 exposure levels in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in 2019, and air pollution is consistently ranked as citizens’ top environmental concern. South Korea is also one of the world’s top ten emitter countries of CO2. Co-benefit mitigation policies can address both air pollution and climate change. Utilizing an alternative co-benefit approach, which views air pollution reduction as the primary goal and climate change mitigation as secondary, this research conducts a scenario analysis to forecast the health and climate benefits of fuel substitution in South Korea’s electricity generation sector. Health benefits are calculated by avoided premature mortality and years of life lost (YLL) due to ischemic heart disease, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), lung cancer, and acute lower respiratory infections (ALRI). The study finds that use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) instead of coal over the 2022-2050 period would result in an average of 116 fewer premature deaths (1,152 YLL) and 80.8 MTCO2e fewer emissions per year. Over the same period, maintaining and maximizing the use of its nuclear energy capacity, combined with replacing coal use with LNG, would result in an average of 161 fewer premature deaths (1,608 YLL) and 123.7 MTCO2e fewer emissions per year.

Analysis of the co-benefits of climate change mitigation and air pollution reduction in China

2013 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 130-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ping Jiang ◽  
Yihui Chen ◽  
Yong Geng ◽  
Wenbo Dong ◽  
Bing Xue ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Pollution Reduction ◽  
Change Mitigation
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