Study: IMO low-sulfur fuel standards will decrease childhood asthma cases, premature deaths; climate tradeoffs
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 7, 2018
pollution impacts in 2020 with and without the use of low-sulphur fuels. Ship air pollution effects are greatest in areas where heavily travelled ship routes exist in, and next to, densely populated communities. Roughly 14 million annual cases of childhood asthma are estimated to be related to global ship pollution using current fuels.
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