Researchers: Health benefits can defray cost of climate policies

[LuckyTheDog]

Proponents of curbing carbon emissions often point to the additional benefits of cleaner air and healthier families. The high cost of climate change policies, they reason, will be largely offset by health care savings. Now, a team of researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have quantified just how big that benefit can be -- up to 10 times the cost of carbon policies, in some cases.

“If cost-benefit analyses of climate policies don’t include the significant health benefits from healthier air, they dramatically underestimate the benefits of these policies,” lead author Tammy Thompson, now at Colorado State University, said in a statement.

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