Environmental and health co-benefits of public action: it's (also) the economy, stupid!

Summary Contrary to the recovery strategy adopted in 2008, which focused exclusively on directly observable economic benefits, each public euro invested to emerge from the crisis must value the environmental and health co-benefits. This is the premise of this note by I4CE and Terra Nova. With the increase of the French public debt and the reduction of budgetary leeway in the long term, valuing all the co-benefits of public action is no longer a simple option but an imperative. This would allow, among other collective gains, to reduce the 50 billion euros/year cost of air pollution in France.