Mumbai residents may be experiencing worse health and economic impacts from pollution caused by coal-fired power plants, as compared to other major metropolitan cities around the world, suggests new research by the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group. These findings, which were released on Wednesday in tandem with a report titled ‘Coal-free cities: the health and economic case for a clean energy revolution’, also show a significant impact of coal-fired power plants on Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata, Bengaluru.
Under the existing scenario, the C40 group’s analysis shows that Mumbai’s 13 million-odd population will experience 6,200 premature deaths, 3,200 preterm births and 4,400 emergency medical visits among patients suffering from asthma and related ailments by 2031.
