🌍🌡️ #Climate policies aiming at #NetZeroEMission are genuily #PublicHealth policies
⚕️💰 Their benefits may even outweigh their implementation costs.
📜🧪 That’s what we found in a study published today in The Lancet Planetary Health :
https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(24)00330-9
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⚕️💰 Their benefits may even outweigh their implementation costs.
📜🧪 That’s what we found in a study published today in The Lancet Planetary Health :
https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(24)00330-9
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▶️air quality (if we stop burning fossil fuels)
▶️diet
▶️physical activity.
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By synthesizing and analyzing the literature on the benefits of these policies, the answer is: A LOT!
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For health determinants, the majority of studies modeled the effect of carbon neutrality on air quality.
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98% of studies anticipate POSITIVE health effects from carbon neutrality.
In median, ~1.5% of deaths could be prevented by net-zero policies, and this climbed to nearly 20% of deaths avoided in some studies.
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