Climate change policies and health in Kuopio

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Scope

Question

What are potential climate policies that reach the greenhouse emission targets in the city of Kuopio for years 2010-2030? What are their effects on health and well-being, and what recommendations can be given based on this? The national greenhouse emission target is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20 % between 1990 and 2020; the city of Kuopio has its own, more ambitious target of 40 % for the same time period.

Boundaries

  • Time: Year 2010 - 2030
  • Spatial: Activities in Kuopio, Finland. Health and well-being effects due to policies anywhere, e.g. fine particle emissions in Kuopio increase cardiovascular mortality all over Finland.

Scenarios

  • Two scenarios for each climate policy (which have not been defined yet): policy is A) implemented, B) not implemented.

Intended users

  • The city of Kuopio.
  • Other cities in Urgenche.
  • Urgenche researchers are users from the methodological point of view.

Participants

  • Main participants:
    • City of Kuopio: Erkki Pärjälä, Mikko Savastola
    • THL: Marjo Niittynen, Jouni Tuomisto, Matti Jantunen.
  • Other participants:
    • University of Exeter
    • Universität Stuttgart
    • Other Urgenche research groups
    • Other Urgenche cities

Answer

Results

Not yet available.

Conclusions

The target of 40 % GHG reduction seems to be unrealistically ambitious.

Rationale

This diagram is just a placeholder. A new file should be uploaded, because this is about another assessment.

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----#: . We need several pages for an assessment: the main page contains the variable list; /Probabilities contains the P(B) values; /Values contains the assessment-specific and decision-specific value judgements (whatever they are); /Decisionmakers contains the list of decisionmakers, decisions and outcomes. (Could /Values and /Decisionmakers be merged?) --Jouni 11:23, 1 May 2012 (EEST) (type: truth; paradigms: science: comment)

----#: . For each ovariable, we must include the code "formula" from the variable page. Formula includes both formula and dependencies for the variable. Then, these are used when using make.ovariable. The names should be like formula.Op_en2345 and dependencies.Op_en2345. --Jouni 11:04, 1 May 2012 (EEST) (type: truth; paradigms: science: comment)

⇤--#: . Slot "objects" is not needed, as variables are managed with their aliases as separate objects (ovariables). --Jouni 11:04, 1 May 2012 (EEST) (type: truth; paradigms: science: attack)

----#: . oassessment@decisionmakers$Value is needed but it is not quite clear how it should be used. It is some kind of scenario tool for Outcome, as different decisionmakers may have different values. Should it be an index in a value variable? --Jouni 08:55, 1 May 2012 (EEST) (type: truth; paradigms: science: comment)

----#: . Päätöksenteon sokea piste: se mitä ihmiset eivät näe mutta eivät myöskään huomaa etteivät näe. Kuitenkin tutkimalla sitä mitä mitä ihmiset eivät näe saadaan selville asioita sokeasta pisteesta. Ymmärtämällä sokeaa pistettä voidaan keksiä asioita jotka järjestelmällisesti jäävät huomaamatta ja asioita, joilla voidaan korjata järjestelmällisiä puutteita. Avoin arviointi on tämmöinen päätöksenteon järjestelmällisten puutteiden korjausmekanismi. --Jouni 08:55, 1 May 2012 (EEST) (type: truth; paradigms: science: comment)

Decision variables

  • Climate policy 1
  • Climate policy 2...

Indicators

  • Cardiovascular mortality
  • Pulmonar mortality
  • Well-being...

Other variables

Assessment-specific data

Climate change policies and health in Kuopio(-)
ObsNameIdentifierAlias
1Climate change policies in KuopioOp_en5466decision
2Climate education in KuopioOp_en5582education
3Market allocation factorOp_en5535MAF
4Cost curves for energyOp_en5478cost.curve
5Energy transformationsOp_en5472transformation
6Energy balance in KuopioOp_en5469energy.balance
7Greenhouse gas emissions in KuopioOp_en5483GHG.emission

Formula

Addition of biofuels in transportation (ktoe/a):

How much energy is saved from the heating of buildings, compared with 2010? (%):

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----#: . This is a city-specific copy of the original code: Energy balance. --Jouni 06:52, 27 January 2012 (EET) (type: truth; paradigms: science: comment)

Value variables

Analyses

  • Decision analysis on each policy: Which option minimises the health risks?
  • Value-of-information analysis for each policy about the major variables in the model and the total VOI.

See also

Urgenche research project 2011 - 2014: city-level climate change mitigation
Urgenche pages

Urgenche main page · Category:Urgenche · Urgenche project page (password-protected)

Relevant data
Building stock data in Urgenche‎ · Building regulations in Finland · Concentration-response to PM2.5 · Emission factors for burning processes · ERF of indoor dampness on respiratory health effects · ERF of several environmental pollutions · General criteria for land use · Indoor environment quality (IEQ) factors · Intake fractions of PM · Land use in Urgenche · Land use and boundary in Urgenche · Energy use of buildings

Relevant methods
Building model · Energy balance · Health impact assessment · Opasnet map · Help:Drawing graphs · OpasnetUtils‎ · Recommended R functions‎ · Using summary tables‎

City Kuopio
Climate change policies and health in Kuopio (assessment) · Climate change policies in Kuopio (plausible city-level climate policies) · Health impacts of energy consumption in Kuopio · Building stock in Kuopio · Cost curves for energy (prioritization of options) · Energy balance in Kuopio (energy data) · Energy consumption and GHG emissions in Kuopio by sector · Energy consumption classes (categorisation) · Energy consumption of heating of buildings in Kuopio · Energy transformations (energy production and use processes) · Fuels used by Haapaniemi energy plant · Greenhouse gas emissions in Kuopio · Haapaniemi energy plant in Kuopio · Land use in Kuopio · Building data availability in Kuopio · Password-protected pages: File:Heat use in Kuopio.csv · Kuopio housing

City Basel
Buildings in Basel (password-protected)

Energy balances
Energy balance in Basel · Energy balance in Kuopio · Energy balance in Stuttgart · Energy balance in Suzhou



The average usage of firewood in certain types of houses according to the wain heating system in 2000-2001 in Finland (m^3/household/year)[1]

Main heating system Type of estate
Detached house Farm Free-time place Total
Stove heating 7.1 10 2 4.4
Central heating Wood 13.7 25.6 .. 18.4
Oil 1.8 8.2 .. 2.3
Electricity 2.5 7.8 .. 2.8
Straight electric heating 2.9 6.5 1.6 2.7
District heating 1.1 .. .. 1.2
All 3.8 14.4 1.8 4.4

References

  1. Kuopio University 2005 (in Finnish)[1]

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