Low-carbon policies could prevent up to 175,000 US deaths by 2030
Monday, February 22, 2016 - 16:00
in Health & Medicine
Reducing US emissions to the levels needed to avoid a 2-degree C warming could prevent up to 175,000 premature deaths by 2030 and yield near-term national benefits of about $250 billion a year, according to a study. When longer-term global impacts are figured in, benefits could be 5 to 10 times larger than the estimated costs of implementing emissions reductions. However, this would require greater reductions than those targeted in current legislation or regulations.