Indian annual ambient air quality standard is achievable by completely mitigating emissions from household sources
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Significance: The Indian government has initiated programs to reduce household use of biomass cookfuels, but their motivation does not include ambient pollution reductions. We estimate ambient exposure reductions that result and subsequent health benefits of seven different scenarios that mirror plausible mitigation policies to address household energy needs currently met by biomass combustion for cooking and water- and space heating, and by kerosene for lighting. If all households transitioned to clean fuels, ∼13% of premature mortality in India could be averted from the reduction in ambient pollution, and the average ambient PM 2.5 concentration in the country would meet national PM 2.5 standards. These results will assist in assessing current policies and making decisions on future mitigation policies to tackle air pollution.
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- Authors
- Chowdhury, S., Dey, S., Guttikunda, S., Pillarisetti, A., Smith, K. R., & Di Girolamo, L.
- Affiliations
- Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IN)
- Urban Emissions Info (IN)
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Collaborative Clean Air Policy Centre (IN)
- Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2019-04-15
- Volume
- 116
- Issue
- 22
- Pages
- 10711-10716
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC6561163
- OpenAlex
- W2937225050
- Cited by
- 225
- References
- 47
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 25 · 2024: 25 · 2023: 28 · 2022: 50 · 2021: 40 · 2020: 42 · 2019: 5
- FWCI
- 10.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology (SR/FST/ESII-016/2014)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Pollution › Energy and Environment Impacts
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Keywords
- clean cooking fuels, kerosene, PM2.5, ambient air quality standards, air pollution mitigation, premature mortality, health benefits, household energy transition, India
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