Global air quality and health co-benefits of mitigating near-term climate change through methane and black carbon emission controls

The research evaluates 14 emission control measures for black carbon and methane to determine their impact on air quality and health by 2030. The study finds that full implementation could significantly reduce global surface concentrations of PM2.5 and ozone, avoiding millions of premature deaths annually, with the vast majority of these benefits occurring in Asia.

• Full implementation of the 14 emission control measures could reduce global population-weighted average surface concentrations of PM2.5 by 23–34% and ozone by 7–17% by 2030, avoiding between 0.6–4.4 million and 0.04–0.52 million annual premature deaths respectively.
• Over 80% of the estimated health benefits from these measures are expected to occur in Asia.
• Black carbon (BC) mitigation measures are responsible for approximately 98% of the avoided deaths compared to the combined effect of BC and methane measures, due to the stronger mortality relationship of PM2.5 relative to ozone and reductions in organic carbon and nonmethane ozone precursors.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2012). Global air quality and health co-benefits of mitigating near-term climate change through methane and black carbon emission controls. https://www.sei.org/publications/global-air-quality-and-health-co-benefits-of-mitigating-near-term-climate-change-through-methane-and-black-carbon-emission-controls/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Global air quality and health co-benefits of mitigating near-term climate change through methane and black carbon emission controls. 2012. https://www.sei.org/publications/global-air-quality-and-health-co-benefits-of-mitigating-near-term-climate-change-through-methane-and-black-carbon-emission-controls/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2012global, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Global air quality and health co-benefits of mitigating near-term climate change through methane and black carbon emission controls}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2012}, month = feb, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/global-air-quality-and-health-co-benefits-of-mitigating-near-term-climate-change-through-methane-and-black-carbon-emission-controls/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }