Impacts and mitigation of excess diesel NOx emissions in 11 major vehicle markets

This research paper estimates the global health and environmental damages caused by diesel NOx emissions, highlighting a significant gap between laboratory certification limits and real-world emissions across 11 major vehicle markets.

• On-road diesel vehicles account for roughly 20 per cent of global anthropogenic nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions, which serve as precursors for tropospheric ozone and fine particulate matter (PM2.5).
• In 11 markets representing about 80 per cent of global diesel vehicle sales, over half of light-duty and nearly one-third of heavy-duty diesel vehicle emissions exceed certification limits. These excess emissions, totaling 4.6 million tons, were linked to approximately 38,000 premature deaths globally in 2015, including roughly 10 per cent of all ozone-related premature deaths in the 28 European Union member states.
• Implementing next-generation standards more stringent than Euro 6/VI could nearly remove real-world diesel-related NOx emissions in these markets, potentially preventing around 174,000 global premature deaths related to PM2.5 and ozone by 2040. A significant portion of these benefits would come from applying Euro VI standards to heavy-duty vehicles in markets where they are not yet adopted.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2017). Impacts and mitigation of excess diesel NOx emissions in 11 major vehicle markets. https://www.sei.org/publications/impacts-mitigation-excess-diesel-nox-emissions-11-major-vehicle-markets/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Impacts and mitigation of excess diesel NOx emissions in 11 major vehicle markets. 2017. https://www.sei.org/publications/impacts-mitigation-excess-diesel-nox-emissions-11-major-vehicle-markets/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2017impacts, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Impacts and mitigation of excess diesel NOx emissions in 11 major vehicle markets}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2017}, month = may, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/impacts-mitigation-excess-diesel-nox-emissions-11-major-vehicle-markets/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }