This afternoon, the HEAL Poland team, together with 25+ health experts, health organisations and civil society representatives, met Ministry of Climate and Environment Secretary of State Bolesta, to discuss the ongoing revision of the Ambient Air Quality Directive (AAQD), on which negotiators reached a deal last week. Participants included HEAL partners Prof. Michał Krzyżanowski, Prof. Tadeusz Zielonka, Prof. Bolesław Samoliński, Dr Piotr Dąbrowiecki.
A new report by the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) now highlights that phasing out coal power in Turkey earlier (by 2030) rather than later (by 2050) would produce tremendous health benefits: It would avoid
- 102,601 premature deaths – almost 20 times more than deaths from traffic accidents in Turkey per year
- 30,975 cases of preterm births
- 67,108 new cases of chronic bronchitis in adults
- 114,683 hospital admissions
- 3,772,502 days with asthma and bronchitis symptoms in asthmatic children
- 27,606,746 lost working days
- 231,333,351 sickness days
- 419,835 cases of bronchitis in children
Importantly, avoiding these health impacts would also help cut costs from air pollution by up to 194 billion EUR or up to 3.1 trillion Turkish Lira.
English: full report and methodology
Turkish: full report, methodology and press release
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