Sentences with phrase «millions of premature deaths»
They showed that reducing greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels also reduces the pollution that causes millions of premature deaths in societies around the world.
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Reducing emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide could also reduce the amount of harmful air pollutants circulating, which could prevent millions of premature deaths annually by the year 2100.
Several studies have shown that air pollution contributes to millions of premature deaths annually.
The exposure to air pollutants produces a large spectrum of health effects, in particular on the most poor, and causes millions of premature deaths.
They showed that reducing greenhouse gases not only slows climate change, it prevents millions of premature deaths.
Perhaps the cruellest distortion perpetrated in Durkin's programme was the claim, also carried in Against Nature, that environmentalists are condemning the poor to live without electricity and to cook their meals on smoky fires, causing millions of premature deaths from respiratory disease.
Billions of people are now exposed to dangerous air, which negatively affects human health and causes millions of premature deaths per year.
Carter concluded, «Denying poor nations, many of whose citizens lack adequate sanitation, schooling, clean water, and health services, the finance to build inexpensive hydrocarbon - fired power stations, and who in consequence suffer millions of premature deaths every year, has been aptly described as technological genocide.
Most of the signatories expressed moral outrage that the ideologues of the anti-GMO movement, including behemoths like Greenpeace, demonize golden rice despite its potential to prevent millions of premature deaths from vitamin A deficiency in the developing world.
The major milestone achieved at COP21 for greenhouse - gases is still far short of what is required to tackle other air pollutants that cause millions of premature deaths and cost the global economy trillions of dollars each year.
We've begun managing the sooty particulate pollution that is linked to millions of premature deaths and also some warming.
The Christian Science Monitor has a valuable update on the international fight over curbing emissions tied to millions of premature deaths and tens of billions of dollars in health - care costs each year — the emissions from cigarettes.
Together, these agents account for over 30 % of current global warming, millions of premature deaths, and extensive crop losses.
- Special report on energy and air quality (June): Energy - related air pollution leads to millions of premature deaths and costs the global economy trillions of dollars each year; with growing demand for energy services in the future, the already high costs of air pollution risk increasing dramatically.
Using a prominent human - Earth systems model linked with international community climate projections, the team showed that reducing greenhouse gases not only slows climate change, it prevents millions of premature deaths.