Article: Ancillary human health benefits of improved air quality resulting from climate change mitigation.(Review)

Authors: Michelle L Bell (corresponding author) [1]; Devra L Davis [2]; Luis A Cifuentes [3]; Alan J Krupnick [4]; Richard D Morgenstern [4]; George D Thurston [5]

Background

Averting the course of climate change would result in human health benefits directly associated with lessened global temperature changes and associated impacts, but would also bring ancillary health benefits from reduced ground-level air pollution in the short-term [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. Many fossil-fuel combustion processes that generate greenhouse gases (GHG) also emit other harmful air pollutants. Several measures aimed at reducing GHG emissions can also improve local air quality, ...

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