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On the environmental effectiveness analysis of energy policies: A case study of air pollution in the megacity of Tehran
, Article Science of the Total Environment ; Volume 705 , 2020 ; Khajehpour, H ; Saboohi, Y ; Sharif University of Technology
Elsevier B.V
2020
Abstract
The present study compared different approaches to assessing the environmental cost-effectiveness of energy policy scenarios. As a case study, the megacity of Tehran in Iran was studied. A key policy challenge in this city is to curb high concentrations of PM2.5 and mitigate the associated adverse impacts. The results demonstrated that in the business as usual case, the spatially averaged primary and secondary PM2.5 concentration in Tehran will increase by 30% in the 2010–2030 period. Adopting certain planned policy scenarios and the corresponding pollutant concentration reductions in Tehran shows that although most of the emission comes from industrial activities around the city, the...