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Assessing the health impacts associated with active transportation within four different pathways to net-zero carbon emissions in France

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Abstract Background In the transport sector, efforts to achieve carbon neutrality may generate public health cobenefits by promoting physical activity. Objective This study aims to quantify the health impacts related to active transportation based on four different scenarios leading France toward carbon neutrality in 2050. Methods The French Agency for Ecological Transition developed four consistent and contrasting scenarios (Transitions2050 scenarios: S1 to S4) achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 as well as a business-as-usual (BAU) scenario that extends our current lifestyles until 2050, without reaching net-zero. For each Transitions2050 scenario, we distributed the mobility demand for walking, cycling and e-cycling across age groups. Relying on the health impact assessment framework, we quantified the impacts of the corresponding physical activity on all-cause mortality. The impact of each of the carbon neutrality scenarios was determined by comparison with estimates from the BAU scenario. Results In S1 and S2 scenarios, volumes of active transportation are projected to increase to fulfil the World Health Organisations recommendations by 2050, while they increase slightly in S3 and decrease in S4. S2 scenario reaches the highest levels of health cobenefits, with 497,000 deaths prevented between 2021 and 2050. This would translate into a life expectancy gain of 3.0 months for the general population in 2050, mainly driven by e-bikes. S1 would provide smaller but important health benefits, while these benefits would be modest for S3. On the contrary, S4 implies 52,000 additional deaths as compared to the BAU scenario, and a loss of 0.2 month in life expectancy. Discussion Different ways to decarbonize mobility in a net-zero perspective may achieve very contrasting public health cobenefits. This study illustrates how the public health dimension may provide a relevant insight in choices of collective transformation toward net-zero societies.

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hal-04252917 , version 1 (21-10-2023)

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Léo Moutet, Aurélien Bigo, Philippe Quirion, Laura Temime, Kévin Jean. Assessing the health impacts associated with active transportation within four different pathways to net-zero carbon emissions in France. 2023. ⟨hal-04252917⟩
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