Achieving Climate Change Target Could Prevent 150M Premature Deaths, Study Shows

SciDev.Net: Study counts lives saved with push for 1.50C climate target
“…To keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, the world would need to cut the majority of fossil-fuel related carbon emissions this century — and because this would also reduce air pollution locally, it would prevent 150 million premature deaths, according to a paper published in Nature Climate Change…” (Vesper, 4/4).

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