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March 18, 2008Transportation 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.