In this short note we provide a quantitative version of the classical Runge
approximation property for second order elliptic operators. This relies on
quantitative unique continuation results and duality arguments. We show that
these estimates are essentially optimal. As a model application we provide a
new proof of the result from \cite{F07}, \cite{AK12} on stability for the
Calder\'on problem with local data.Comment: 12 page