Mothers & Others for Clean Air is excited to welcome Dr. J. Jason West to M&O’s Partnership Council. Dr. West researches climate change and air pollution and is an Associate Professor with the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
His 2013 study published in Nature Climate Change found that tackling climate change would save millions of lives globally.
“It is pretty striking that you can make an argument purely on health grounds to control climate change,” said Jason West. A key finding in the report was that the value of the health benefits delivered by cutting a ton of CO2 emissions was $50-$380, greater than the projected cost of cutting carbon in the next few decades.
He is also interested in modeling ozone and particles on global, regional and urban scales.
