Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Can Improve Air Quality and Save Lives
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Reducing global greenhouse gas emissions to slow climate change could prevent millions of premature deaths due to air pollution over the next century, Reducing these co-emitted air pollutants improves air quality and benefits human health. “The world has been slow to act on climate change because th
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- Reducing global greenhouse gas emissions to slow climate change could prevent millions of premature deaths due to air pollution over the next century,
- Reducing these co-emitted air pollutants improves air quality and benefits human health.
- “The world has been slow to act on climate change because the full benefits of reducing emissions won’t be realized for 50 to 100 years,”
- West’s team found that reducing greenhouse gas emissions could prevent approximately 0.5 million premature deaths due to air pollution in 2030, 1.3 million in 2050, and 2.2 million in 2100.
- Exposure to outdoor air pollution has been linked to heart and respiratory diseases and was recently classified as a human carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
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