[cleanairuk_news] New issue of Acid News: The costs of climate change

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No. 4, December 2012

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** The costs of climate change
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Climate change already causes about 400,000 deaths per year and a 1 per
cent loss of global GDP. By 2030 human and monetary losses may double.
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** Is air quality in Europe getting any better?
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In 2010, 90–95 per cent of the EU’s urban citizens were exposed to
PM2.5 levels higher than the reference values recommended by the WHO.
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** Cleaner fuels will dominate in 2020
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The preferred emission control options for ships trading in emission
control areas after 2015 will be low-sulphur distillate fuel oil and
liquefied natural gas.
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** The Climate Bonus
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Cleaner air, better health and a more efficient economy are some of the
many co-benefits that we will get from investing in climate mitigation,
writes Alison Smith, author of a newly published book: “The Climate
Bonus”.
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** Great potential for changing behaviour
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With a policy package that motivates citizens to change habits, emissions
in the EU could be reduced by about a quarter for the non-ETS sector by
2020.
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** Arctic shipping threatens the environment
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Unless action is taken, the increase in shipping and other human
activities in the sensitive Arctic ecosystem is likely to cause
irreversible damage.
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** Tighter standards for PM proposed in the US
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Strengthening the annual fine particle pollution standard will improve
health protection and provide benefits worth billions of dollars.
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** Editorial: Difficult is not a strong enough reason
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Agriculture is the foundation of food production in a world that is facing
the challenge of feeding nine billion people by 2050.
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