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Climate change policies pay for themselves, study says
2014-08-25 23:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: President Obamas controversial plan to phase out coal and slash carbon emissions is an expensive one. But a new study suggests it could be cheaper than the alternative: pollution, poor air quality, and accompanying health costs. Cutting emissions might lower health spending so drastically that the US could end up saving ten times more than it would cost to implement carbon reductions, according to a Massachusetts Institute of Technology study published Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change....
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Health Care Savings Can Far Outweigh Costs of Carbon-Cutting Policies
2014-08-25 20:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Implementing policies to curb carbon emissions dramatically cuts health care costs associated with poor air quality in some cases, by more than 10 times the cost of policy implementation, according to new research published in Nature Climate Change. Policies aimed at reducing carbon emissions are as effective as laws targeting polluting compounds like ground-level ozone, also known as smog, and fine particulate matter, the MIT researchers say. An analysis of three climate policies a clean-energy...
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Carbon-cutting policies could save billions in healthcare costs
2014-08-25 17:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Efforts launched to curb greenhouse gas emissions could pay for themselves, according to a new study investigating the potential healthcare savings of reductions in pollution. It is already widely accepted by scientists that carbon-cutting policies, introduced primarily to mitigate climate change, can have positive impacts on human health. Experts have suggested that a reduction in harmful air pollution would cut the rates of conditions such as asthma and other health problems, possibly including...
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MIT study finds air quality co-benefits of US carbon policies can significantly offset costs, depending upon the policy
2014-08-25 12:30:35| Green Car Congress
Monaco real estate market attracts investors escaping stricter tax policies
2014-08-21 13:53:44| Real Estate - Topix.net
Everyone wants a piece of Monaco's property market , and skyrocketing property values are not stopping investors from snapping up properties in this tiny country in the French Riviera, several reports said.
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