Avoiding death by diesel
Today’s post is by Simon Upton, head of the OECD Environment Directorate, founder and Chair of the Round Table on Sustainable Development, and former New Zealand environment minister.
If I proposed the building of a large industrial enterprise that would lead to the early death of around 40,000 people, I strongly doubt that the idea would survive the evening news. Yet air pollution from diesel-fuelled road transport kills an estimated 40,000 people a year in France – that’s roughly ten times the number of people who die in road accidents. Unlike a large, easy-to-target industrial plant, the culprits are millions of mobile combustion sites that whiz around carrying the very people who would oppose my large plant......
Economic evaluation of health impacts due to road traffic-related air pollution: An impact assessment project of Austria, France and Switzerland
Economic evaluation of health impacts due to road traffic-related air pollution: An impact assessment project of Austria, France and Switzerland