CHI Director and Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health, Dr. Susan Anenberg, co-authored a paper published in Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, entitled 'Enhanced Integration of Health, Climate, and Air Quality Management Planning at the Urban Scale'. Anenberg and other co-authors share how they developed and applied an integrated climate action planning process that includes an air quality assessment tool, Pathways-AQ, in six pilot cities: Accra, Ghana; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Buenos Aires, Argentina; the metropolitan area of Guadalajara, Mexico; Johannesburg, South Africa; and Lima, Peru.
The authors found that the implementation of 'ambitious' greenhouse gas reduction strategies in these cities would avoid between 230-1,040 premature deaths, annually per city, by 2050.
Read the full paper here.