模型研究:若各国增强实现《巴黎协定》的气候雄心,在2040年前可每年挽救数百万生命
《柳叶刀-星球健康》(The Lancet Planetary Health)近日发布“柳叶刀人群健康与气候变化倒计时”(Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change)特别专刊。专刊中发表的研究指出,在9个国家中,采取符合《巴黎协定》目标且将健康置于优先地位的政策,每年或将通过改善膳食接受挽救640万人的生命,通过清洁空气挽救160万人的生命,通过增加锻炼挽救210万人的生命。
NOTES TO EDITORS
This study was funded by Wellcome Trust and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. It was conducted by researchers from University College London, UK, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria, Columbia University, USA, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK, University of Cambridge, UK, University of Oxford, UK.
[1] The Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change is an international research collaboration providing a global overview of the relationship between public health and climate change. A collaboration of over 120 leading experts from academic institutions and UN agencies across the globe, it brings together climate scientists, engineers, energy specialists, economists, political scientists, public health professionals and doctors. Each year their annual report is published in The Lancet journal ahead of the UN climate change negotiations.
[2] The article is being published in a special issue of The Lancet Planetary Health journal alongside two other papers looking at the inclusion of health in the NDCs and the calculation of the carbon footprint of NHS England, as an exemplar for other health systems. The special issue will also include commentary pieces from Margaret Chan, former Director-General of WHO, Dagur Eggertsson, Mayor of Reykjavik, Collin Tukuitonga, Associate Dean Pacific of the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, and Paula Vivili, Director of the Public Health Division at the Secretariat of the Pacific Community and Andrea MacNeill, Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia
[3] Only 40 countries (39 countries plus the EU27), have submitted revised NDCs, including three nations included in this study - the UK, Germany and Brazil [Latest update here: https://climateactiontracker.org/climate-target-update-tracker/ ]
[4] Quote direct from author and cannot be found in the text of the Article.
[5] For further details on the different scenarios modelled, please see Panel: Scenarios used for climate and health modelling, p. 3.
[6] https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/zxxx_662805/t1817098.shtml , https://joebiden.com/climate-plan
[7] https://www.unenvironment.org/emissions-gap-report-2020
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