Co-benefits? Not always: Quantifying the negative effect of a CO2-reducing car taxation policy on NO emissions

Autor: Bernard Hyde, Brian Ó Gallachóir, S. Leinert, Hannah Daly
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Energy Policy. 63:1151-1159
ISSN: 0301-4215
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.09.063
Popis: With the current focus of policy action on climate change mitigation, it is important to investigate possible negative side effects of climate change policies on air pollutants. A 34% increase in CO 2 emissions from private cars in Ireland over the period 2000–2008 prompted a change in private car taxation in 2008 to incentivise the purchase of lower CO 2 emitting cars. The impact has been successful and the measure has accelerated the dieselisation of the car fleet. This however, raises an important question, namely how does the dieselisation of the car fleet affect NO x emissions? This paper combines two models to address this question, a car stock model to generate activity data (future composition and activity of Ireland's car stock) and the COPERT model to quantify the NO x emissions generated in the period 2008–2020. Previous analysis shows that the CO 2 taxation policy measure is anticipated to deliver a 7% reduction in private car related CO 2 emissions in 2020 compared with a baseline pre-tax scenario. The results here show that NO x emissions decrease in all scenarios, but a lesser degree of reduction is achieved due to dieselisation, with NO x emissions in the post-tax scenario 28% higher than the pre-tax scenario in 2020.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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