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

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 g...

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Main Authors: Toon Vandyck, Kimon Keramidas, Alban Kitous, Joseph V. Spadaro, Rita Van Dingenen, Mike Holland, Bert Saveyn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06885-9
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spelling doaj-50286f567ad34980a468073c77f7a6132021-05-11T09:46:33ZengNature Publishing GroupNature Communications2041-17232018-11-019111110.1038/s41467-018-06885-9Air quality co-benefits for human health and agriculture counterbalance costs to meet Paris Agreement pledgesToon Vandyck0Kimon Keramidas1Alban Kitous2Joseph V. Spadaro3Rita Van Dingenen4Mike Holland5Bert Saveyn6European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)Spadaro Environmental Research Consultants (SERC)European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)Ecometrics Research and Consulting (EMRC)European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)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.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06885-9
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Bert Saveyn
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Air quality co-benefits for human health and agriculture counterbalance costs to meet Paris Agreement pledges
Nature Communications
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Kimon Keramidas
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title Air quality co-benefits for human health and agriculture counterbalance costs to meet Paris Agreement pledges
title_short Air quality co-benefits for human health and agriculture counterbalance costs to meet Paris Agreement pledges
title_full Air quality co-benefits for human health and agriculture counterbalance costs to meet Paris Agreement pledges
title_fullStr Air quality co-benefits for human health and agriculture counterbalance costs to meet Paris Agreement pledges
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publishDate 2018-11-01
description 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.
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