Reducing future air-pollution-related premature mortality over Europe by mitigating emissions from the energy sector: assessing an 80&thinsp;% renewable energies scenario

Tarín-Carrasco, Patricia; Im, Ulas; Geels, Camilla; Palacios-Peña, Laura; Jiménez-Guerrero, Pedro

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-3945-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-3945-2022

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28 Mar 2022

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| 28 Mar 2022

Reducing future air-pollution-related premature mortality over Europe by mitigating emissions from the energy sector: assessing an 80 % renewable energies scenario

Patricia Tarín-Carrasco, Ulas Im, Camilla Geels, Laura Palacios-Peña, and Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero

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Data for manuscript Reducing future air pollution-related premature mortality over Europe by mitigating emissions from the energy sector: assessing an 80% renewable energies scenario, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6230393

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The evidence of the effects of atmospheric pollution (and particularly fine particulate matter, PM_2.5) on human mortality is now unquestionable. Here, 895 000 annual premature deaths (PD) are estimated for the present (1991–2010), which increases to 1 540 000 in the year 2050 due to the ageing of the European population. The implementation of a mitigation scenario (80 % of the energy production in Europe from renewable sources) could lead to a decrease of over 60 000 annual PD for the year 2050.