The clean energy transition's missing metric: Human health

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The First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels emphasized a just and equitable transition to green energy, though a Lancet correspondence highlighted the significant health and economic benefits of moving away from fossil fuels, which the report underemphasizes.

Earlier this year, the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in Santa Marta, Colombia, convened representatives from 57 countries to advance a just, orderly and equitable transition to green energy. According to a new correspondence published in The Lancet, while the conference's final report makes a powerful case for a rapid global phaseout, "it overlooks the extraordinary health and health-economic benefits of doing so."