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DOI	10.1016/j.enpol.2020.111876
	The unintended impact of carbon trading of China's power sector
	Zhang H.; Zhang B.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	03014215
卷号	147
英文摘要	Carbon trading is considered a strategy for reallocating carbon permits and reducing abatement costs that may also change energy consumption and the distribution of atmospheric pollution emissions, resulting in environmental health benefits or damage on a regional scale. In this research, we use an agent-based model to construct a national carbon emissions trading market of the power sector based on the year of 2013, and simulate the key atmospheric pollution emission patterns and the corresponding environmental health effects. We find that compared with a command and control policy, the carbon trading policy is able to reduce the CO2 emissions and save abatement costs by approximately 63.53 RMB/ton. Meanwhile, the results show the carbon trading policy would synergistically reduce PM2.5 emissions by 1.55 million tons. Addition, we use a simplified exposure-response model to estimate health benefits by synergistically reducing PM2.5 emissions, and find that the carbon trading policy would decrease 45,200 cases of all-cause mortality and generate 307.07 billion RMB in environmental health benefits. The co-benefit accounts for 0.52% of the nation's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2013. However, compared with the command and control policy, carbon trading changes the pollution emission distribution among the different provinces, and results in unintended environmental health damages in some provinces. Setting reasonable trading directions and exchange ratios, increasing stringency of environmental regulations in some provinces with worsening air pollution should be implemented to complement the carbon trading policy. © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
关键词	Agent-based model Carbon emission trading Co-benefits Policy design
英文关键词	Air pollution; Autonomous agents; Carbon; Computational methods; Cost reduction; Energy utilization; Environmental regulations; Health; Abatement costs; Agent-based model; Atmospheric pollution; Carbon emissions; Command and control; Environmental health; Gross domestic products; Pollution emissions; Emission control; abatement cost; atmospheric pollution; carbon emission; carbon sequestration; emissions trading; energy policy; environmental economics; China
语种	英语
来源期刊	Energy Policy
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/204958
作者单位	School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, 211816, China; State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang H.,Zhang B.. The unintended impact of carbon trading of China's power sector[J],2020,147.
APA	Zhang H.,&Zhang B..(2020).The unintended impact of carbon trading of China's power sector.Energy Policy,147.
MLA	Zhang H.,et al."The unintended impact of carbon trading of China's power sector".Energy Policy 147(2020).