Health-related social costs of air pollution due to residential heating and cooking Version 1.2

The more people live in the vicinity of the emission source, the higher the damage in terms of premature death and diseases. [...] These prices are used in Chapter 2 to estimate the total health-related social costs of outdoor air pollution due to domestic heating and cooking for the EU27+UK and the individual countries. [...] 19 210135 - Health-related social costs of air pollution due to residential heating and cooking 2 Total health-related social costs In this chapter, we estimate the total health-related social costs of outdoor pollution caused by residential heating and cooking in the EU27+UK. [...] In this context, it is also relevant in this study to compare the health-related costs of direct emissions due to heating and cooking in the residential sector with the health-related costs of all non-commercial transport activities by households. [...] Figure 11 shows that for the majority of EU27+UK countries (18 out of 28), health-related social costs due to heating in the residential sector are higher than the costs due to transport in the residential sector.