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Air pollution and climate change

Air pollution is responsible for millions of deaths worldwide and crop loss every year. Both climate change and air pollution share a common origin — fuel burning — and a common solution — a clean and fair energy transition.
Their complex interplay calls for an advanced evaluation framework that can support decision making. Previous assessments have looked at the co-benefits of climate policies for air pollution, but few have optimized air pollution benefits.

A new study in The Lancet Planetary Health lay out a modelling framework that internalizes air pollution’s economic impacts on human mortality, while considering climate constraints and aerosol feedback.
Results show how welfare-maximizing strategies accounting for air pollution benefits generate considerable health benefits, avoiding 1.62 million of annual premature deaths by mid-century, a figure that is three times greater than the co-benefits of climate policies.

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ISPRA
Technical Periodicals
PRUE
1/2022
2037 4070