Cycling and other non-motorized transport could help India simultaneously reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and improve public health.
That’s the conclusion of researchers in Germany and Austria, who analyzed Indian household survey data to understand the trade-offs associated with energy usage in a country experiencing rapid urbanization.
Non-motorized transport presents an attractive “sweet spot” for development, whilst other policies, such as improving access to modern cooking fuels, could dramatically lower morbidity while increasing emissions only moderately, the team showed. […]
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