Just decarbonization? Environmental inequality, air quality, and the clean energy transition
Just decarbonization? Environmental inequality, air quality, and the clean energy transition
复制标题
DOI：
10.1093/icc/dtad010
复制
发表时间：
2023-03-07
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Boyce, James K.
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Diana, Bridget;Ash, Michael;Boyce, James K.
环境不平等往往很大且具有后果，加剧了垂直的收入和阶级不平等以及沿种族和族裔的横向不平等。气候政策可以扩大这些不平等，也可以缓解它们，这取决于它们的设计。美国电力行业的脱碳说明了这些可能性。在某些区域，仅侧重于减少碳排放的战略可能会增加对化石燃料燃烧排放的局部共同污染物的暴露差异，在某些情况下，还会增加绝对值暴露。除明确要求改善空气质量的战略外，特别是针对前线社区的战略，可以将脱碳与补救环境不平等和在公共卫生方面取得广泛成果结合起来。
Environmental inequalities are often large and consequential, exacerbating vertical inequalities of income and class and horizontal inequalities along lines of race and ethnicity. Climate policies can widen these inequalities as well as mitigate them, depending on their design. Decarbonization of the US electricity sector illustrates these possibilities. A strategy narrowly focused on carbon reduction alone is likely in some regions to increase disparities in exposure to localized co-pollutants emitted by fossil fuel combustion and, in some cases, to increase exposure in absolute terms. Strategies that in addition explicitly mandate improvements in air quality, both overall and specifically for frontline communities, can couple decarbonization with remediation of environmental inequalities and broad-based gains in public health.