2026-09-25 オックスフォード大学
＜関連情報＞
- https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-09-23-coal-powered-economic-growth-linked-to-rising-urban-air-pollution-and-deaths-in
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-026-00518-9
インドにおける経済ブームによる電力需要が都市部の大気汚染と健康問題に関連している Economic-boom-driven electricity demand linked to urban air pollution and health in India
Basudev Swain, Aishwarya Singh, Debashis Tripathy, Rui Song, Adrien Deroubaix, Marco Vountas, Pritanjali Shende, Chenchen Huang, Luca Lelli & Ankit Tandon
Nature Cities Published:25 September 2026
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-026-00518-9
Abstract
Rapid economic growth in India since 2000 has been accompanied by rising electricity demand and worsening urban air pollution. Here we show that a threefold increase in GDP per capita was associated with a nearly fourfold rise in electricity demand, with coal supplying approximately 76% of total generation. This coal-dependent expansion increased energy-sector SO2 emissions and contributed to a twofold increase in urban aerosol loading, with sulfate accounting for approximately 46% of the urban aerosol burden. Urban PM2.5-attributable deaths increased from approximately 0.7 million in 2000 to 0.9 million in 2020, with increasing contributions from power-sector emissions. Meanwhile, rising incomes increased clean-cooking access from approximately 25% to 75%, accompanied by declining household air-pollution deaths but increasing outdoor air-pollution deaths. These findings highlight contrasting indoor and outdoor air-pollution health consequences of coal-dependent economic growth. This underscores the urgency of decarbonizing electricity generation to improve urban air quality and public health as well as maintaining sustainable economic growth.
