Diesel vehicles were responsible for 47% of transport pollution deaths in 2015, a study has revealed.
In the wide-ranging study, researchers looked at the emissions from diesel and non-diesel cars, trucks, buses, the shipping industry as well as agricultural and construction machinery and their impact on our health.
The cost of the health burden caused by transport pollution, which has been linked to lung and heart diseases, strokes and diabetes, added up to $1 trillion in 2015, they said. The United States saw 22,000 deaths from transport pollution, of which 43 percent were linked to diesels. Relatively speaking however, the picture was worst in Germany with 17 premature deaths blamed on transport pollution per 100,000 residents -- three times higher than the global average.
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