Co-benefits of mitigating global greenhouse gas emissions for future air quality and human health

J. Jason West (), Steven J. Smith, Raquel A. Silva, Vaishali Naik, Yuqiang Zhang, Zachariah Adelman, Meridith M. Fry, Susan Anenberg, Larry W. Horowitz and Jean-Francois Lamarque
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J. Jason West: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Steven J. Smith: Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Raquel A. Silva: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Vaishali Naik: UCAR/NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Yuqiang Zhang: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Zachariah Adelman: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Meridith M. Fry: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Susan Anenberg: US Environmental Protection Agency
Larry W. Horowitz: NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Jean-Francois Lamarque: National Center for Atmospheric Research

Nature Climate Change, 2013, vol. 3, issue 10, 885-889

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.

Date: 2013
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