Climate-specific health literacy and medical advice: The potential for health co-benefits and climate change mitigation. An exploratory study by Lydia Reismann, Andrea Weber, Michael Leitzmann, Carmen Jochem

“…Conclusions: Climate-specific health literacy may play an important role for health co-benefits and climate change mitigation. In order to promote and protect both individual and planetary health, it is crucial to improve the status of climate-specific health literacy.…”
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Air quality and health co-benefits of climate change mitigation and adaptation actions by 2030: an interdisciplinary modeling study in Ahmedabad, India by Vijay S Limaye, Akhilesh Magal, Jaykumar Joshi, Sujit Maji, Priya Dutta, Prashant Rajput, Shyam Pingle, Prima Madan, Polash Mukerjee, Shahana Bano, Gufran Beig, Dileep Mavalankar, Anjali Jaiswal, Kim Knowlton

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Quantifying the effectiveness and health co-benefits of climate change mitigation actions across sectors: a protocol for an umbrella review [version 2; peer review: 3 approved, 1 approved with reservations] by Syreen Hassan, Tamzin Reynolds, Romain Clercq-Roques, Rosemary Green, Hugh Sharma Waddington, Jane Falconer, Kristine Belesova, Sarah Whitmee, Andy Haines

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Co-benefits of protecting mangroves for biodiversity conservation and carbon storage by Md Mizanur Rahman, Martin Zimmer, Imran Ahmed, Daniel Donato, Mamoru Kanzaki, Ming Xu

“…Conserving mangrove biodiversity has numerous co-benefits, including climate change-mitigation. Here the authors demonstrate that blue carbon storage in mangroves can be best sustained by combining site-specific dominant species with other species with contrasting functional traits.…”
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Household preferences for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in four European high-income countries: Does health information matter? A mixed-methods study protocol by Alina Herrmann, Helen Fischer, Dorothee Amelung, Dorian Litvine, Carlo Aall, Camilla Andersson, Marta Baltruszewicz, Carine Barbier, Sébastien Bruyère, Françoise Bénévise, Ghislain Dubois, Valérie R. Louis, Maria Nilsson, Karen Richardsen Moberg, Bore Sköld, Rainer Sauerborn

“…In the simulation of the reduction of households’ carbon footprints, half of the households are provided with information on health co-benefits of climate change mitigation measures, the other half is not. …”
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Children’s health impacts from a proposed decarbonization policy in the transportation sector in the Eastern United States by Alique G Berberian, Frederica Perera, Saravanan Arunachalam, Jonathan I Levy, Laura Buckley, Calvin Arter, Kaitlyn E Coomes, Jonathan J Buonocore

“…Health impact assessments have estimated substantial health co-benefits of climate change mitigation strategies due to reductions in air pollution in the US; however, few studies have considered children’s health impacts and related equity implications. …”
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A protocol for analysing the effects on health and greenhouse gas emissions of implemented climate change mitigation actions [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Syreen Hassan, Peninah Murage, Sol Cuevas Garcia-Dorado, Rosemary Green, Rachel Huxley, Kristine Belesova, Sarah Whitmee, Andrew Haines

“…Most of our existing evidence comes from modelling studies and little is known about the extent to which the health co-benefits of climate change mitigation actions are realised upon implementation. …”
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Ancillary health effects of climate mitigation scenarios as drivers of policy uptake: a review of air quality, transportation and diet co-benefits modeling studies by Kelly M Chang, Jeremy J Hess, John M Balbus, Jonathan J Buonocore, David A Cleveland, Maggie L Grabow, Roni Neff, Rebecca K Saari, Christopher W Tessum, Paul Wilkinson, Alistair Woodward, Kristie L Ebi

“…We reviewed studies quantifying the health co-benefits of climate change mitigation related to air quality, transportation, and diet published since the 2009 Lancet Commission ‘Managing the health effects of climate change’ through January 2017. …”
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