Climate action could prevent over 13 million premature deaths, but equity choices matter for global health

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Mar 16, 2026, 6:30 pm182 ptsTrendingTop
A new study published in The Lancet Global Health reveals a previously underappreciated tension at the heart of international climate negotiations: policies designed to protect developing countries from bearing an unfair share of the cost of cutting carbon emissions could inadvertently deprive those same…

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