Stringent climate policies could offer major health and economic gains by 2030

Health and economic co-benefits of stringent climate policies avoiding temperature overshoot could prevent 207,000 premature deaths and $2.27 trillion in damages by 2030 with major gains in China and India under net-zero pathways.

Stringent climate policies could offer major health and economic gains by 2030

Air pollution is one of the world's leading health risks, contributing to nearly one in eight deaths globally. A new study published in Science Advances by the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) shows that stringent climate policies designed to avoid temporarily exceeding 1.5°C warming could prevent hundreds of thousands of premature deaths while avoiding trillions of dollars in economic damages.