Nature Communications (Feb 2022)

Air quality and health co-benefits of China’s carbon dioxide emissions peaking before 2030

  • Rong Tang,
  • Jing Zhao,
  • Yifan Liu,
  • Xin Huang,
  • Yanxu Zhang,
  • Derong Zhou,
  • Aijun Ding,
  • Chris P. Nielsen,
  • Haikun Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28672-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Understanding benefits of carbon mitigation is an important impetus for governments to adopt more ambitious climate targets. Here, the authors show positive air quality and health co-benefits are possible if China’s CO2 emissions peak before 2030.