Comment: Climate change and health: on the latest IPCC report. Lancet, April 2014.
Authors: Alistair Woodward, et al.
The health co-benefi ts of action on climate change could be very large. For instance, a reduction of emissions of methane and black carbon might directly prevent 2·0–2·5 million deaths per year worldwide, according to one estimate. When converted into economic terms, the health gains could off set much of the early cost for mitigation of climate change.
