Prioritizing Evidence Gaps: Air Pollution and Health Impacts of Climate Action

Join Vital Strategies for a webinar launching its new report, Prioritizing Evidence Gaps: Air Pollution and Health Impacts of Climate Action.

Globally, around 8 million deaths are associated with air pollution each year. The vast majority of these deaths are caused by anthropogenic sources of combustion, including energy production, power generation, transport, waste burning, industry and biomass burning. These activities result in a complex mixture of health- and climate-damaging pollutants with warming and cooling effects.

Current evidence suggests climate actions will result in larger health gains via air pollution reductions than via CO2 and temperature reductions. At the same time, more research is needed to precisely assess the effectiveness of clean air and climate actions being taken, considering how actions reduce specific health-damaging source emissions.

Vital Strategies and Wellcome Trust conducted a rapid scoping activity to identify and prioritize gaps in the evidence base that may be limiting cities’ and countries’ abilities to demonstrate the health impacts of climate mitigation actions targeting combustion-source air pollution.

Featured speakers:

• Sumi Mehta, Vice President, Environmental, Climate & Urban Health, Vital Strategies
• Yue Zhang, Senior Program Manager, Environmental, Climate & Urban Health, Vital Strategies
• Meenakshi Kushwaha, Consultant, Environmental, Climate & Urban Health, Vital Strategies

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