Large-scale renewable energy brings regionally disproportional air quality and health co-benefits in China.

ABSTRACT: Developing renewable energy could jointly reduce air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and bring air pollution-related health co-benefits. However, the temporal and sub-national distributions of investment costs and human health co-benefits from renewable energy deployment remain unclear. To investigate this gap, we linked multiple models for a more comprehensive assessment of the economic-environmental-health co-benefits of renewable energy development in China. The results show that developing renewable energy can avoid 0.6 million premature mortalities, 151 million morbidities, and 111 million work-loss days in 2050. Meanwhile, the human health and economic co-benefits vary substantially across regions in China. Renewable energy can undoubtedly bring health and economic co-benefits.

SUBMITTER: Xie Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10432202 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature