Sentences with phrase «premature deaths annually»

Approximately 11 % of all deaths due to ischaemic heart disease, accounting for over a million premature deaths annually, can be attributed to exposure to household air pollution.

In doing so we'll also prevent some 1.5 million premature deaths annually due to improved air quality.Soot Comes Out of the Atmosphere in Weeks, Not Decades Since soot — which in this context comes from older diesel engines and burning other fossil fuels, industrial sources, inefficient biomass cookstoves used in many developing nations — comes out of the atmosphere in a matter of weeks, not decades or centuries like carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases, removing the source of pollution is highly effective in both stopping the warming effects as well as improving air quality.

Had the program been implemented as a fixed - price sale of allowances at the original price expectation level — with revenue allocated according the same formula that was adopted for allowance allocation — the program would have been no less politically viable and the regulatory incentive might have motivated widespread deployment of the best available control technologies, resulting in up to 20,000 fewer premature deaths annually.

This shift avoids an estimated 1.3 million premature deaths annually.

Several studies have shown that air pollution contributes to millions of premature deaths annually.

The study, published in Nature, shows these excess emissions alone lead to 38,000 premature deaths annually worldwide, including 1,100 deaths in the United States.

According to a May report from the Wellcome Trust in London, antimicrobial resistance in China could cause 1 million premature deaths annually by 2050 and cost the country $ 20 trillion.

By 2050, scientists predict air pollution may cause 6.6 million premature deaths annually.

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Additionally, shipping pollution is estimated to contribute to 400,000 premature deaths from lung cancer and cardiovascular disease annually.

The World Bank estimated in early 2007 that air pollution alone causes at least 700,000 premature deaths in China annually.

In China, 1.6 million premature deaths are estimated annually due to cardiovascular and respiratory injury from air pollution.

Harvard School of Public Health researchers estimate that trans fat had been causing about 50,000 premature heart attack deaths annually, making partially hydrogenated oil one of the most harmful ingredients in the food supply (see discussion of salt).

The paper estimates that growing trees on 72 million hectares of land in Europe could result in 1,400 premature deaths on the continent annually at a cost of $ 7.1 B. Currently, 22,000 people are estimated to die prematurely from ozone pollution in Europe every year.

«In fact, closing just a single plant can prevent 146 asthma attacks, 47 heart attacks, and 29 premature deaths a year, according to the Clean Air Task Force... Coal is still killing 7,500 people annually,» he wrote.

The new standards will annually prevent as many as 15,000 premature deaths and reduce health costs by $ 118 billion.