Integrated pollution and carbon mitigation delivers major health and economic co-benefits in China

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/113326 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/113326 http://eprints.org/relation/issmallThumbnailVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/113326 archive 2 disk0/00/02/14/27 2026-04-02 09:30:57 2026-04-02 09:31:19 2026-04-02 09:30:57 article show Xiao Y.-X. Wang H. Liu L.-J. Purohit P. 1873 0000-0002-7265-6960 Jiang H.-D. Zhu L.-L. Zheng H.-L. Zhang K. Integrated pollution and carbon mitigation delivers major health and economic co-benefits in China pub ECE ECEPM Synergistic mitigation of air pollutants and greenhouse gases is crucial for achieving clean air and carbon neutrality, but quantitative evidence of sectoral and regional health co-benefits in China remains limited. We develop an integrated Energy-Economy-Air Quality-Health framework coupling CEEPA, GAINS, and a province-level health module to simulate fourteen policy scenarios from 2020 to 2050. Coordinated strategies reduce CO 2 and pollutants (SO 2 , NO X , PM 2.5 ) by 75% relative to 2020, avoiding more than 500,000 premature deaths by 2050 and yielding monetized gains of 1.07 trillion CNY. Health benefits concentrate in industrially dense and populous provinces, with near-term PM 2.5 reductions driven by pollution control and long-term improvements reliant on decarbonization. The integrated approach achieves a benefit-to-cost ratio of 1.42, lowering abatement costs by 11% relative to pollution-only measures. Our findings highlight the value of coordinated, sector- and region-specific strategies for simultaneous climate mitigation, air quality improvement, and public health protection. 2026-04-02 doi:10.1038/s44407-026-00062-9 239 public npj Clean Air 2 e22 TRUE 3059-2240 info:eu-repo/semantics/article