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SUBMITTER: Vandyck T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6250710 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vandyck Toon T Keramidas Kimon K Kitous Alban A Spadaro Joseph V JV Van Dingenen Rita R Holland Mike M Saveyn Bert B
Nature communications 20181122 1
Local air quality co-benefits can provide complementary support for ambitious climate action and can enable progress on related Sustainable Development Goals. Here we show that the transformation of the energy system implied by the emission reduction pledges brought forward in the context of the Paris Agreement on climate change (Nationally Determined Contributions or NDCs) substantially reduces local air pollution across the globe. The NDCs could avoid between 71 and 99 thousand premature death ...[more]