Good for health and reducing global warming
JOHANNESBURG
27 November 2009
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Eat less meat, have smaller herds of animals, switch to more efficient stoves that pollute less, and develop more sustainable public transport systems are some of the lifestyle changes and technical fixes that could save millions of lives and reduce global warming.
This is the message in a series of studies published by a group of scientists in the respected British medical journal, The Lancet, to make a case for health at the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen (COP15), starting on 7 December 2009.
Each study focuses on one sector where greenhouse gas emissions need to be reduced, including household energy use, urban land transport, electricity generation, and food and agriculture. The effect on health of short-lived greenhouse pollutants, produced by several sectors, is also reviewed.
Reducing preventable deaths is the aim: two million people die from indoor air pollution every year; 1.2 from outdoor air pollution; 1.3 million from road traffic injuries.
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