Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Air quality co-benefits for human health and agriculture counterbalance costs to meet Paris Agreement pledges

  • Toon Vandyck,
  • Kimon Keramidas,
  • Alban Kitous,
  • Joseph V. Spadaro,
  • Rita Van Dingenen,
  • Mike Holland,
  • Bert Saveyn

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06885-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Local air quality co-benefits can provide convincing support for climate action. Here the authors revisited air quality co-benefits of climate action in the context of NDCs and found that 71–99 thousand premature deaths can be avoided each year by 2030, offsetting the climate mitigation costs on a global level.