Green Calgary

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Mar
18
2008

Choose to Walk

Filed in: Transportation
  • Transportation is Canada’s largest single source of greenhouse gas emissions.
  • Calgary has the highest transportation-generated carbon dioxide emissions of any city in Canada.
  • Every year an estimated three million people die and an even greater number suffer serious health effects from air pollution, primarily respiratory diseases, asthma and cardiovascular disease.
  • This mortality figure represents about 5% of the total 55 million deaths that occur annually in the world.

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