For example, planting trees in urban areas sequesters carbon dioxide emissions while
simultaneously reducing air pollution, beautifying the area, reducing energy use, and stifling noise, among other benefits.
Not exact matches
The 2012 Global Energy Assessment, for example, elucidated multiple pathways that could
simultaneously achieve decarbonization at the same time as expanding energy access to the millions of people currently living without modern energy and electricity, and improving public health by
reducing air pollution.
The advantage of subsidy reform are significant and varied: appropriate energy prices would
reduce global carbon emissions in 2013 by 21 % and fuel - related
air pollution deaths by 55 %, while
simultaneously boosting extra revenue of 4 % of global GDP and increasing social welfare by 2.2 % of global GDP.
This would be good news on many fronts —
simultaneously reducing energy poverty,
air pollution, carbon emissions, and costly fossil fuel imports.
Cities can
reduce their greenhouse gas emissions while
simultaneously addressing other pressing local environmental problems such as
air pollution, waste, and transport, not to mention other challenges such as local economic development.