Cutting greenhouse pollutants could directly save millions of li...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Tue, 11/24/2009 - 23:00

(University of California - Berkeley) Six international studies published this week in the British journal the Lancet show that cutting greenhouse gases, in particular ozone and black carbon, can quickly save millions of lives worldwide in addition to slowing climate change.

UC Berkeley's Kirk Smith and Michael Jerrett will join Carol Browner in a Nov. 25 press conference to discuss the implications of climate policy for global health, especially in low-income nations.

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