{"id":32648,"date":"2018-03-22T07:40:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T12:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32648"},"modified":"2018-03-22T07:41:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T12:41:07","slug":"new-study-gives-150-million-reasons-to-reduce-carbon-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32648","title":{"rendered":"New study gives 150 million reasons to reduce carbon emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New study gives 150 million reasons to reduce carbon emissions<\/a><\/h3>\n

A new study suggests that holding the world to 1.5\u00b0 Celsius of warming could prevent more than 150 million deaths.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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MORE THAN 150 MILLION DEATHS COULD BE PREVENTED BY TAKING RAPID CLIMATE ACTION. THIS WOULD BE LARGELY THROUGH A DECREASE IN AIR POLLUTION. CREDIT: KEVIN FRAYER\/GETTY IMAGE.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Taking serious action on climate change now could mean saving hundreds of millions of lives across the globe, according to a new study<\/a> published in Nature Climate Change<\/em>\u00a0on Monday by researchers at Duke University.<\/p>\n

The study looked at the human health benefits of holding global climate change to\u00a01.5\u00b0 Celsius (2.7\u00b0 Fahrenheit) \u2014 the aspirational goal<\/a> set by the Paris climate agreement. It found that taking significant steps to reduce carbon emissions in line with this goal would prevent more than 150 million premature deaths worldwide, largely through a decrease in air pollution.<\/p>\n

The study looked at three different scenarios for carbon emissions reductions \u2014 one scenario where carbon emissions were reduced rapidly to keep the planet below\u00a02\u00b0 Celsius (3.6\u00b0 Fahrenheit) by the end of the century, another where emissions were reduced less rapidly (but still enough to keep warming below\u00a02\u00b0C by 2100), and a third where emissions were reduced rapidly enough to limit warming to\u00a01.5\u00b0C.<\/p>\n

Researchers then compared expected future emissions \u2014 and associated air pollution, like particulate matter and ozone \u2014 to expected public health impacts over the world.<\/p>\n

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Alarming new report analyzes the increasing frequency of extreme heat days<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Specifically, the study looked at how emissions reductions would benefit public health in the world\u2019s largest urban areas. In six cities \u2014\u00a0\u00a0Moscow, Mexico City, Sao Paolo, Los Angeles, Puebla, and New York \u2014 between 320,000 and 120,000 premature deaths could be avoided by keeping global warming below\u00a01.5\u00b0C.<\/p>\n

The Indian cities of\u00a0Kolkata and Delhi \u2014 both of which struggle<\/a> with air pollution<\/a>from energy and transportation \u2014 would see the greatest benefit, with up to 4.4 million and 4 million projected lives saved, respectively.<\/p>\n

In total, 80 cities around the world would see more than 100,000 premature deaths prevented by rapid climate action meant to keep the world below\u00a01.5\u00b0C of warming.<\/p>\n

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New study gives 150 million reasons to reduce carbon emissions A new study suggests that holding the world to 1.5\u00b0 Celsius of warming could prevent more than 150 million deaths. MORE THAN 150 MILLION DEATHS COULD BE PREVENTED BY TAKING RAPID CLIMATE ACTION. THIS WOULD BE LARGELY THROUGH A DECREASE IN AIR POLLUTION. CREDIT: KEVIN […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[113,141,288,369,16347,19382,16192],"class_list":["post-32648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-climate-change","tag-extreme-weather","tag-global-warming","tag-natasha-geiling","tag-premature-death","tag-think-progress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32649,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32648\/revisions\/32649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}