Yale scholars help test mechanism to reduce India’s deadly air pollution

By Vestal McIntyre
August 9, 2021

Indian states are deploying a new policy tool that shows potential to reduce their high air-pollution levels, which are estimated to have caused nearly 1.7 million deaths, or 18% of all Indian deaths, in 2019.

The policy tool — an emissions trading system (ETS) known as “cap-and-trade” — has successfully curbed emissions of carbon and sulphur dioxide in Europe and the United States. However, it has rarely been used in lower-income countries, which often lack the necessary data infrastructure. And until recently, it had never been used for curbing particulate matter — the soot and other industrial emissions that pose urgent health concerns in many highly polluted developing economies.

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