November 25, 2009
UC Berkeley News
Cutting greenhouse pollutants could directly save millions of lives worldwide
By Robert Sanders and Linda Anderberg
BERKELEY — Tackling climate change by reducing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse emissions will have major direct health benefits in addition to reducing the risk of climate change, especially in low-income countries, according to a series of six papers appearing today (Wed., Nov. 25) in the British journal The Lancet.
Low-emission cookstoves like this, dubbed the Ugastove, have been developed by UC Berkeley researchers ...
read the full piece