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Ambitious climate action could also create more than 65 million new low-carbon jobs, prevent 700,000 deaths from air pollution every year, and lead to higher workforce participation by women.
This would offer the double benefit of capturing greenhouse gas pollution and saving the world’s wildlife from oblivion.
According to these calculations, it would cost $84 billion to clean up the pollution produced in 2004, or 3% of GDP for that year.
But more realistic estimates put environmental damage at 8-13% of China’s GDP growth each year, which means that China has lost almost everything it has gained since the late 1970’s due to pollution.
Indeed, on average, China suffers a major water pollution accident every other day.
Land planning must be overhauled, with industrial monopolies broken up and development goals set according to population, resource volume, and the capacity to absorb pollution.
HFO is also a significant source of air pollution.
The embedded energy infrastructure retains strong incumbency advantages, and markets do not value sustainability adequately or price waste and pollution fairly.
Northeast Asia’s Shared DestinyDENVER – When the foreign ministers of China, South Korea, and Japan convened in Seoul last week to discuss potential cooperation on a range of issues, from counterterrorism to air pollution, it was the first time they had met in nearly three years.
Everyone agrees, for example, that spillovers from pollution or tariffs are negative, not positive, externalities.
To talk about the pollution of morality is to miss the point.
Given the broad range of threats facing marine life – including overfishing, climate change, pollution, and coastal development – it is easy, perhaps even rational, to be pessimistic.
When they are not traded in markets (as with clean air), the result is pollution and depletion rather than higher prices.
Safer streets encourage more people to walk and cycle, helping to reduce air pollution, which has been linked to chronic respiratory disease, cancer, and other noncommunicable diseases.
For example, many Chinese steel plants have state-of-the-art pollution controls, but these can be switched off to save costs.
But it has not been enough to root out corruption fully, and problems with pollution, overcapacity, and debt remain, which can be addressed only through a major supply-side structural-reform program.
But indoor air pollution poses a much greater environmental problem.
Approximately 37% of the world’s supply of tantalum comes from Central Africa, where mining it has been linked to devastating wars and environmental pollution.
Every day, the world’s largest 100 cities move 3.2 million cubic meters of water more than 5,700 kilometers to address local water shortages or problems with pollution.
Shifting to corn not only reduces water consumption; it also cuts the amount of pollution that reaches city residents downstream.
Prices should pass on to end users the full cost not only of production and acquisition, but also of the damage – including air pollution and climate change – caused by intensive reliance on fossil fuels.
According to the World Health Organization, outdoor air pollution causes more than three million premature deaths a year.
By focusing on the most lethal environmental problem – air pollution – we can see some of the reasons for improvement.
As the world developed, deaths from air pollution have declined dramatically, and that trend is likely to continue.
The most serious environmental problem for humans is indoor air pollution from cooking and heating with dirty fuels like wood and dung – which is the result of poverty.
In 1900, more than 90% of all air pollution deaths resulted from indoor air pollution.
Economic development has meant more outdoor pollution, but also much less indoor pollution.
Reductions in poverty have gone hand in hand with a four-fold reduction in global air pollution mortality.
Yet more people today still die from indoor air pollution than from outdoor pollution.
Even in China, while outside air has become a lot more polluted, poverty reduction has caused a lower risk of total air pollution death.
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