Measures designed to cut carbon emissions could inadvertently undermine efforts to improve air quality unless the government tightens integration between climate change and air pollution policies.
That is the conclusion of a major new report from Defra released today, which estimates the UK economy would save £24bn by 2050 adopting measures that jointly help prevent carbon emissions and air pollution.
The study, titled Air Pollution: Action in a Changing Climate, acknowledges that many aspects of the government's Low Carbon Transition Plan (LCTP), such as the roll out of electric vehicles and renewable energy technologies, will jointly serve to reduce carbon emissions and improve air quality.
But it warns that improvements in air quality delivered by shifting away from fossil fuels could be initially "outweighed" by an expected increase in the number of companies generating energy onsite through combined heat and power or biomass systems.
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