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  • 14 - Tort-Based Public Interest Litigation on Air Pollution in China: A Promising Pathway for Chinese Climate Change Litigation?

  • from Part IV - China, Courts and Climate Change
  • Edited by Jolene Lin, National University of Singapore, Douglas A. Kysar, Yale University, Connecticut
  • Book:
    Climate Change Litigation in the Asia Pacific
    Published online:
    06 November 2020
    Print publication:
    29 October 2020, pp 394-415

  • Summary

    Public interest litigation to address air pollution has been a novel judicial phenomenon in China since 2016. The modification of the Civil Procedure Law in 2012 and the Environmental Protection Law in 2014 conferred standing on environmental NGOs and public prosecutors to bring environmental public interest litigation cases. The introduction of these reforms has led to a rapid increase in the number of environmental public interest litigation cases. Given the similarities shared by climate change and air pollution, this chapter seeks to shed light on how tort-based air pollution public interest litigation has advanced in China and considers whether it presents a potential avenue for the emergence of climate change litigation in China. It argues that current public interest litigation on air pollution may not only indirectly prepare legal preconditions for climate change litigation but may also directly become the pathway for climate change litigation.

  • Applying Benefit-Cost Analysis to Air Pollution Control in the Indian Power Sector

  • Maureen L. Cropper, Sarath Guttikunda, Puja Jawahar, Zachary Lazri, Kabir Malik, Xiao-Peng Song, Xinlu Yao
  • Journal:
    Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis / Volume 10 / Issue S1 / Spring 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    27 December 2018, pp. 185-205
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  • Air pollution is a persistent and well-established public health problem in India: emissions from coal-fired power plants have been associated with over 80,000 premature deaths in 2015. Premature deaths could rise by four to five times this number by 2050 without additional pollution controls. We site a model 500 MW coal-fired electricity generating unit at eight locations in India and examine the benefits and costs of retrofitting the plant with a flue-gas desulfurization unit to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions. We quantify the mortality benefits associated with the reduction in sulfates (fine particles) and value these benefits using estimates of the value per statistical life transferred to India from high income countries. The net benefits of scrubbing vary widely by location, reflecting differences in the size of the exposed population. They are highest at locations in the densely populated north of India, which are also among the poorest states in the country.