Year: 2025
Type: review
Abstract: Several EU climate change mitigation policies have the potential to deliver health co-benefits. However, existing frameworks guiding research in this area lack important details that are needed to understand how evidence of health co-benefits can be used to support the ambition and acceptability of EU climate policy. In this Personal View, we propose an integrated framework for advancing the state-of-the-science on health co-benefits of climate change mitigation and realising the societal effect of evidence documenting co-benefits. We apply this framework to the EU context. Our framework spans multiple economic sectors-including land use, land-use change, and forestry and health systems-and provides details on the different types of mitigation actions, levers of change, and societal actors with the agency to implement specific mitigation actions. This framework aims to inform future research on the magnitude of health co-benefits of climate change mitigation, and provide strategies to communicate health co-benefits to support increases in mitigation ambition and societal acceptance of mitigation actions.
Source: The Lancet Planetary Health
Authors: Cathryn Tonne, Stefan Sieber, Faidra Filippidou, Ioannis Tsiropoulos, Vasiliki Petropoulou, Gregor Kiesewetter, Zbigniew Klimont, Lena Höglund-Isaksson, Peter Witzke, Marco Springmann, Andrea Pozzer, Jos Lelieveld, Ian Hamilton, Shih-Che Hsu, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Daniel Velázquez-Cortés, Matilda van den Bosch, Ilija Sazdovski, Marta Santamaria, Francesca de'Donato, Niheer Dasandi
Institutions: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, University of Bonn, University of Oxford, University College London, Cyprus Institute, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Energy Institute, University of British Columbia, European Forest Institute, Escola Superior de Comerç Internacional, ASL Roma, University of Birmingham
Language: English
Subfield: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $6,680
OpenAlex ID: W4410352962