India, Feb. 14 -- New report pegs economic cost of such pollution at $8 bln / day
Pollution from burning fossil fuel such as coal, oil and gas, etc led to the premature death of 4.5 million people across the world every year, according to a new report.
The report Toxic air: The Price of Fossil Fuels , by non-profit Greenpeace and the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air put the economic cost of such pollution at $8 billion per day. That's 3.3 per cent of the global gross domestic product.
The report was based on research that studied datasets for surface-level concentrations of three main pollutants and calculated health and cost impacts for 2018.
The most economic cost due to such pollution was for the United States, which spent...