Decarbonising the Aussie health sector could stop 77,000 temperature-related deaths

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Decarbonisation of the Australian health sector by 2040 may avert an estimated 77,000 temperature-related deaths, according to Aussie and international researchers. The team say that decarbonisation of the Australian economy by 2040 could prevent over 1.1 million global deaths. The team used computer modelling simulations to estimate the effect of decarbonisation of the health sector and economy of Australia on deaths and the monetary-equivalent welfare gain. They found that decarbonisation of the health sector by 2040 would provide a welfare gain to the value of $151 billion, accounting only for the benefits in reducing temperature-related deaths.