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AQLI: new data reveals little progress globally in reducing air pollution over the last two decades

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Produced by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC), the AQLI is based on frontier research by EPIC’s director Michael Greenstone that quantified the causal relationship between human exposure to air pollution and reduced life expectancy.

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HEI: 95%+ of world’s population live in areas of unhealthy air

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coal, wood, and dung) for cooking and heating. billion people—one in three global citizens—were exposed to household air pollution from the use of solid fuels (for example, coal, wood, charcoal, dung, or other biomass) for cooking and heating. was industrial coal; transportation followed as a close second.

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New phase of globalization could undermine efforts to reduce CO2 emissions

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The study, involving researchers from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and colleagues in China and the United States, investigated how complex supply chains are distributing energy-intensive industries and their CO 2 emissions throughout the global South.

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UN Environment report says national GHG pledges only bring one-third of reductions needed for Paris Agreement

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A large part of this potential comes from six relatively standardized categories: solar and wind energy; efficient appliances; efficient passenger cars; afforestation and stopping deforestation. There are an estimated 6,683 operating coal-fired power plants in the world, with a combined capacity of 1,964 GW.

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Low-lying and other vulnerable countries calling for fast action on non-CO2 global warming pollutants

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Methane is another potent climate warmer that needs to be targeted; capturing emissions from sources such as landfills and coal mines would benefit the climate system and the gas could then be used as a source of energy. Reducing tropospheric ozone can improve public health as well as agricultural productivity.

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Study Finds Black Carbon a Significant Factor in Melting of Himalayan Glaciers

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—Surabi Menon, physicist and staff scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Environmental Energy Technologies Division. The main reason for the increase is the accelerated economic activity in India and China over the last 20 years; top sources of black carbon include shipping, vehicle emissions, coal burning and inefficient stoves.

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