• DOI:10.1146/ANNUREV-ENVIRON-031312-125456
• Corpus ID: 154560818

Measuring the Co-Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation

@article{rgeVorsatz2014MeasuringTC,
  title={Measuring the Co-Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation},
  author={Diana {\"U}rge-Vorsatz and Sergio Tirado Herrero and Navroz K. Dubash and Franck Lecocq},
  journal={Annual Review of Environment and Resources},
  year={2014},
  volume={39},
  pages={549-582}
}

• D. Ürge-Vorsatz, S. Herrero, +1 author F. Lecocq
• Published 17 October 2014
• Economics
• Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Co-benefits rarely enter quantitative decision-support frameworks, often because the methodologies for their integration are lacking or not known. This review fills in this gap by providing comprehensive methodological guidance on the quantification of co-impacts and their integration into climate-related decision making based on the literature. The article first clarifies the confusion in the literature about related terms and makes a proposal for a more consistent terminological framework, then emphasizes the importance of working in a multiple-objective–multiple-impact framework. It creates a taxonomy of co-impacts and uses this to propose a methodological framework for the identification of the key co-impacts to be assessed for a given climate policy and to avoid double counting. It reviews the different methods available to quantify and monetize different co-impacts and introduces three methodological frameworks that can be used to integrate these results into decision making. On the basis of an init...