Cost-benefit Analysis of Final Policy Scenarios for the EU Clean Air Package

Acknowledgement is also made of the contribution to the methods that underpin this analysis by numerous contributors in the past, particularly members of the ExternE Project team and those who collaborated on the CBA under the CAFE Project and subsequent work on revision of the Gothenburg Protocol and assessment of air pollution co-benefits of climate policies. [...] The range shown at the foot of the table includes the use of higher valuations for mortality based on the value of statistical life (VSL). [...] The following table shows the correspondence between the scenarios presented here and those in the Commission’s Impact Assessment, together with information on the percentage ‘gap closure’ between the current legislation and MTFR scenarios defined for optimisation of the GAINS model. [...] For the health impact assessment, account is taken of the 7 CBA for the Clean Air Policy Package distribution of population and of effects on demographics within the population, such as children, the elderly, or those of working age. [...] Consideration is given in the discussion at the end of this report to the likely effects of applying the VOLY derived by Desaigues et al (2011) and to the major review by OECD on the use of VSL to inform environmental policy making.