Assessment on impacts of emission trading on city-level (ET-CL)

Health impact assessment (HIA) on city-level energy production and consumption with climate change boundaries takes a wide perspective over environmental issues that can be dealt with on a city level. It studies many of the contemporary ideas, plans, and pieces of legislation in an integrated and systematic way. It tries to find hidden caveats, expose policies that are based on popular trends rather than science, and assess the impacts of new innovative solutions.

Scope

Purpose

The purpose is to assess health impacts of the energy production and consumption (including energy within products) in a city. The climate change and measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are taken as a boundary condition. Hence, the climate change impacts are not on the focus, but rather the impacts of climate change abatement measures.

Boundaries

• Spatial: One urban area. en:Helsinki Metropolitan Area (capital region) is used as the practical example.
• Temporal: Current situation - 20 years in the future.
• Health impacts: All: mortality and morbidity. DALYs are used as the summary measure.
• Population: The whole population in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area is considered as the active population (making societal and individual decisions). However, health impacts are considered anywhere in the world both downstream (impacts of pollutants from Helsinki) and upstream (health impacts of the production of products consumed in Helsinki).

Intended users

• City-level policy-makers in all sectors in Helsinki and everywhere.
• International policy-makers related to climate change.
• General public.

Participants

• Risk group from KTL.
• Anyone interested. This is an open assessment.

See also

• Nugget:Carbon pie approach
• Bioenergy in Finland: effects on health and climate change
• Variable:Assessment:Catastrophic non-linear impacts of climate change
• Risk assessment on Hämeenkyrö municipal solid waste incinerator