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Climate change control and injury prevention: more win-win solutions

¹ Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Wellington, New Zealand
² School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Correspondence to:
Dr N Wilson
PO Box 7343 Wellington, New Zealand; nwilson@actrix.gen.nz

Accepted 31 January 2006

Keywords: climate change; fuel

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The journal recently published an excellent special feature on climate change and injury prevention by Roberts and Hillman.¹ The authors detailed a number of "win-win solutions" whereby actions to prevent climate change were also likely to contribute to injury prevention. However, their list was incomplete and we wish to point out some additions:

• The use of carbon charges on fossil fuels would be likely to reduce injuries for two reasons. The first is the historical evidence around petrol prices and motor vehicle fatalities;^2,3 the second is that, if the carbon charge were not offset by other tax reductions, then it would raise revenue that could be used to invest in improved public transport systems. That would help lower injury rates, because public transport is safer than private vehicle use. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has also reported that controlling road traffic would benefit health through reductions in road traffic . . . [Full text of this article]