Tercera Parte / Cómo Nos Afecta

3.4 Contaminación atmosférica

Todas las fuentes en línea se consultaron el

  1. La exposición a niveles elevados de partículas finas y ozono Burnett, R., et al., ‘Global estimates of mortality associated with long-term exposure to outdoor fine particulate matter’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115 (38), 2018: 9592–7; Vohra, K., et al., ‘Global mortality from outdoor fine particle pollution generated by fossil fuel combustion: Results from GEOS-Chem, Environmental Research’, Environmental Research, 195, 2021: artículo 110754, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2021.110754; Seltzer, K. M., et al., ‘Measurement-based assessment of health burdens from long-term ozone exposure in the United States, Europe, and China’, Environmental Research Letters, 13 (10), 2018: artículo 104018, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aae29d; Shindell, D., et al., ‘Quantified, localized health benefits of accelerated carbon dioxide emissions reductions’, Nature Climate Change, 8 (4), 2018: 1–5, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0108-y.

    Dejar de quemar combustibles fósiles para obtener energía Vohra et al., ‘Global mortality from outdoor fine particle pollution’.

    Se estima que la contaminación del aire del interior de las casas mata prematuramente a cuatro millones Organización Mundial de la Salud, ‘Household air pollution and health’, 8 de mayo de 2018, https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/household-air-pollution-and-health.

  2. alrededor del 30 por ciento de las emisiones globales de metano Saunois, M., et al., ‘The global methane budget 2000–2017’, Earth System Science Data, 12 (3), 2020: 1561–623, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1561-2020

    unas quinientas mil muertes prematuras anuales Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, ed. V. Masson-Delmotte et al. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, en prensa), https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/; Climate and Clean Air Coalition and United Nations Environment Programme, Global Methane Assessment: Benefits and Costs of Mitigating Methane Emissions, 2021, https://www.ccacoalition.org/en/resources/global-methane-assessment-full-report.

  3. Los beneficios para el clima también son mayores que el coste de la acción Shindell, D., et al., ‘Temporal and spatial distribution of health, labor, and crop benefits of climate change mitigation in the United States’, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118 (46), 2021: artículo e2104061118, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2104061118.

    se conseguiría el 60-65 por ciento de dichos beneficios Ibid.