Costs of unit emissions of air pollutants

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Scope

Costs of air pollutant emissions, expressed as costs per 1 kg of emission. The pollutants considered are PM_2.5 and CO₂.

Definition

Data

Assumptions: Primary fine particle emissions of 24290 kg/a caused 12.5 deaths in a risk assessment study in Helsinki . We here use the distribution of deaths per emission derived from that study. The value of a statistical life is 0.98-2 M€ . The official value for road economy calculations is 201.879 e/kg . This value is within the range derived from Tainio, but clearly lower than the mean.

CO2 emission price comes from the emission trade market. According to Helsingin Sanomat , it was 18 €/ton in 5 Apr, 2005, although it had been lower during previous months. In July, it was approaching 30 €/ton according to Taloussanomat. The official value for road economy calculations is 32 €/ton , which is within the range used here.

Causality

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Unit

€/kg

Formula

<anacode> index emission:= ['PM','CO2']; var a:= fractiles([ -7.223e-004, 5.640e-006, 4.228e-005, 5.987e-005, 8.013e-005, 1.150e-004, 2.037e-004, 2.939e-004, 3.598e-004, 4.132e-004, 4.640e-004, 5.139e-004, 5.662e-004, 6.233e-004, 6.854e-004, 7.577e-004, 8.441e-004, 9.519e-004, 1.093e-003, 1.314e-003, 2.805e-003]); array(Emission, [a*uniform(0.98M,2M), uniform(5,40)/1000])</anacode>

Result

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