The truth about co-benefits: a multidimensional feasibility assessment for thailand and beyond

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/108892 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/108892 http://eprints.org/relation/isIndexCodesVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/108892 archive 353 disk0/00/02/03/98 2025-02-10 15:23:47 2025-02-10 15:23:47 2025-02-10 15:23:47 article show Zusman E. Akahoshi K. Hanaoka T. Malley C.S. Wangwongwatana S. Onmek N. Paw-armart I. Nguyen Thi K.O. Nguyen Huy L. Kuylenstierna J.C.I. Hirayama T. Goto Y. Kazumasa K. Amann M. Klimont Z. 1473 0000-0003-2630-198X Slater J. 2410 The truth about co-benefits: a multidimensional feasibility assessment for thailand and beyond pub ECE ECEPM Research has yielded increasingly robust estimates of the co-benefits from mitigating climate change while reducing air pollution, improving health, and meeting other development needs. Though quantifying these often hidden benefits could ease cost concerns and lower technological constraints for development-friendly climate solutions, achieving co-benefits frequently requires overcoming difficult-to-measure social and institutional barriers. This study extends insights from research focusing on quantitatively assessing the feasibility of a 1.5 °C future to build a multidimensional framework for measuring different barriers to achieving co-benefits. The framework offers a novel yet generalizable approach for bringing context-appropriate assessments of different dimensions of feasibility into the integrated assessment modelling that underpins work on co-benefits. It then outlines five steps for applying that framework to evaluate the size of different barriers for transport, agricultural and residential energy co-benefit solutions in Thailand. The results demonstrate that the sum of the delays from social/institutional barriers exceed economic/technological barriers for four out of six studied solutions. These delays also lead to increases of 24% to 31% in PM2.5 emissions relative to a no-barriers effective implementation scenario between 2015 and 2030 and 2040. The feasibility framework can be integrated into not only national policy scenarios but also project assessments, following trends in carbon finance. An international barriers database as well as strengthening links to work on barriers and technological diffusion, transaction costs, and multi-level transitions can also help spread multi-dimensional feasibility assessments across countries and scales. 2025-02-07 published Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP) doi:10.1088/2515-7620/adae5e 159 3559 public Environmental Research Communications 7 2 e025009 TRUE 2515-7620 no info:eu-repo/semantics/article