Fossil energy price and outdoor air pollution: predictions from a QUAIDS model

Abstract

➢Fossil Energy price subsidy encourages overconsumption and elevates air pollution. ➢A 100% energy price hike leads to a 29% decrease in household energy consumption. ➢A 100% energy price hike leads to a 62.9 million ton reduction in air pollutants. ➢A 200% energy price hike leads to a 45% decrease in household energy consumption. ➢A 200% energy price hike leads to a 74.5 million ton reduction in air pollutants.

Source identification and risk assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in air and dust samples of Lahore City

“…Additionally, due to a shortage of natural gas (comparatively cleaner fuel), biomass combustion became the main source of household required energy, resulting in an upsurge of pyrogenic PAHs 41 , 72 . As few past studies highlighted the significance of long-term strategies that intend to transition from allocating subsidies to unsustainable, environmentally-degrading fossil fuels to sustainably-produced renewable energy carriers 10 , 42 , 95 , 96 . Therefore, The green technologies and dissemination of alternative fuels mainly biodiesel and solar power could be one of the environment-friendly alternatives and planning infrastructure, fuel quality, fuel subsidies, renewable energy industry, energy price change and abatement of industrial emissions will be highly essential to reduce the PAHs pollution and maintain the air quality to boost up the economy and achieve energy security of the city.…”

Effective options for addressing air quality– related environmental public health burdens in Saudi Arabia

“…Cap-and-trade policies have been found to be far more cost efficient than policies that subsidize clean alternatives ( Saari et al., 2014 ; Thompson et al., 2014 ), though the two may be synergistic and cost-effective when deployed together (L. Wang et al., 2016 ). Indeed, recent empirical estimates for Iran, another major oil-producing state in the region, suggests that consumers may exhibit significant demand response to policies that raise the price of fossil fuels, which could offer significant air quality improvements ( Khatibi et al., 2020 ). Shih and Tseng (2014) found that energy efficiency policies may be less efficient still than policies that subsidize clean alternatives, in part because of rebound effects where efficiency cost savings lead to higher demand.…”

Catalyzing healthier air: the impact of escalating fossil fuel prices on air quality and public health and the need for transition to clean fuels

“…Another study estimated an energy consumption's ownprice elasticity of ˗0.63 in 2016 for an average Iranian household (-0.67 for rural and -0.58 for urban households). This means that conditional to no change in other prices and income, a marginal 1% increase in energy carriers' prices would decrease an average Iranian household's consumption of energy by 0.63% (Khatibi et al, 2020). A meta-analysis in 2016 calculated price elasticities of energy demand for short-term and long-term.…”