These climate-mitigation health co-benefits will be immediately reaped by the communities that clean their air, producing an additional incentive that must also be weighed in economic evaluations of climate change policy.
Either Prof Auffhammer admits there are economic problems — e.g. fire prevention and mitigation, public health programmes, crime prevention and mitigation, universally available health care — for which no good market solution has been found despite determined effort, or he doesn't.
Soret S, Mejia A, Batech M, Jaceldo-Siegl K, Harwatt H, Sabate J. Climate change mitigation and health effects of varied dietary patterns in real-life settings throughout North America.
Linking storytelling to local development, Qessa provides unemployed youth with a job, teaching them to leverage stories to pass on technical information on natural disasters mitigation, public health and food security.
BP set up the fund, known as the GRI, to provide $50 million a year over 10 years to study five themes related to oil spills: oil dispersion, degradation, environmental impacts and restoration, technologies for cleanup and mitigation, and health effects.
Cost-effective mitigation of health effects requires regulation of primarily those PM sources that are responsible for the effects.
at the meso level, informal communities and social networks as well as formal organizations can provide crucial resources for social and material support, thus constituting essential elements for prevention and mitigation of health related problems.
The period over which the mitigation and health impacts are analyzed must be carefully assessed, both in relation to the time course between implementation of mitigation and consequent impacts, and in relation to time preferences for specific outcomes and the associated choice of discount rates.
Importantly, many mitigation-related health impacts accrue sooner than the impacts projected from climate change.
Findings emphasize the importance in distinguishing between absolute maximum Ta versus UHI intensity by weather type for communication and translation of heat mitigation practices and health protection by public health and urban planning agencies.
When comparing mitigation strategies where health is one of the criteria, assigning a relative weight to the health co-benefits criterion can be difficult because the immediate reduction in hazardous exposures does not often produce immediate health benefits (Jarrett et al. 2012; Wilkinson et al. 2010) (Table 2).
