Recent advances in integrating climate change, air quality, and public health into urban decision-making
Abstract
Many cities lack information on local air pollution exposure levels and associated health impacts, both of which contribute to evidence-based mitigation decisions. In addition, city commitments to reduce greenhouse gases are often hindered by a lack of information about benefits to the local population, including air quality and health improvements. Decision-support tools to assess climate, air quality and health benefits of alternative emission policies exist at the national scale. However, such tools are not widely available at the city scale, where clean air interventions are often targeted. This talk will address recent advances combining remote sensing, air pollution models, monitoring, epidemiological results, and additional inputs (e.g., maps of road networks) to assess (1) urban air pollution levels for pollutants such as fine particulate matter (PM2.5), ozone, and nitrogen dioxide (NO2), (2) disease burdens associated with urban air pollution worldwide, and (3) how changes in emissions would impact urban air pollution and the associated health burden. The talk will also discuss novel methods and tools for integrating climate change, air pollution, and public health into urban decision-making on clean air interventions, including in efforts led by the Climate and Clean Air Coalition and C40 Cities.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2020
- Bibcode:
- 2020AGUFMA111.0006A
- Keywords:
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- 0478 Pollution: urban;
- regional and global;
- BIOGEOSCIENCES;
- 0230 Impacts of climate change: human health;
- GEOHEALTH;
- 0240 Public health;
- GEOHEALTH;
- 1622 Earth system modeling;
- GLOBAL CHANGE