Co-benefits of mitigating global greenhouse gas emissions for future air quality and human health
Abstract
Mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions often reduces co-emitted air pollutants, with advantages for human health. Avoided mortality from air pollution, a co-benefit of CO2 abatement, is estimated under global climate change mitigation scenarios to be in the range of US$50–US$380 per tonne of CO2. This exceeds the projected mitigation costs for 2030 and 2050, and is within the lower range of costs expected in 2100.
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Nature Climate Change
- Pub Date:
- October 2013
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- Bibcode:
- 2013NatCC...3..885W