The Economic Benefits of Air Quality Improvements in Arctic Council Countries

Acknowledgements

This report is an output of the OECD Environmental Policy Committee and its Working Party on Integrating Environmental and Economic Policies (WPIEEP). The report was carried out under the overall responsibility of Shardul Agrawala, Head of the Environment and Economy Integration Division in the OECD Environment Directorate.

This report was written by Elisa Lanzi, Daniel Ostalé Valriberas, Marta Arbinolo, Jean Chateau of the OECD Environment Directorate; Zbigniew Klimont and Chris Heyes of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA); and Rita Van Dingenen of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (EC-JRC). The individual inputs of the key contributors are as follows:

 

OECD	Elisa Lanzi	Project co-ordination and supervision, conceptualisation, projections of economic consequences, drafting, and communication with stakeholders.
	Daniel Ostalé Valriberas	Projections of health impacts and economic consequences, data collection and visualisation and drafting.
	Marta Arbinolo	Conceptualisation, research, data collection and drafting.
	Jean Chateau	Projections of economic consequences, baseline projections.
IIASA	Zbigniew Klimont	Emission scenarios and estimates of costs of emission reductions through deployment of best available techniques.
	Chris Heyes	Emission scenarios, data collection and exchange.
EC-JRC	Rita Van Dingenen	Concentrations, exposure to air pollution, and impacts of air pollution on crop yields.

Ruben Bibas of the OECD Environment Directorate provided support to finalise the projections of economic consequences; Grace Alexander contributed to editing and research; and Katjusha Boffa, Aziza Perrière and Jack McNeill of the OECD Environment Directorate provided administrative support. The report was edited by Fiona Hinchcliffe, and formatted by Annette Hardcastle.

The authors would like to thank Delegates to the Environmental Policy Committee (EPOC) and to the OECD Working Party on Integrating Environmental and Economic Policies (WPIEEP) for useful comments and suggestions on earlier versions of the report. Feedback and comments from Shardul Agrawala, Rob Dellink, and Nils Axel Braathen of the OECD Environment Directorate; Michele Cecchini of the OECD Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs; Andrés Fuentes Hutfilter and Jolien Noels of the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs & Local Development are all gratefully acknowledged.

The authors also greatly appreciate input and comments from Russel Shearer, co-ordinator of the European Union-funded Action on Black Carbon in the Arctic and Simon Wilson from the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP). All scenarios presented in this report were developed with the support of the European Union-funded Action on Black Carbon in the Arctic and the authors gratefully acknowledge the participation in the Action’s workshops and the feedback from participants at the workshop.

Finally, this work would not have been possible without the financial support from Finland and Sweden. The views expressed here may not, under any circumstances, be regarded as an official position of the European Commission.