Public health impacts of road transportation emissions in Europe. The role of science in "dieselgate"

Abstract

This presentation discusses the contribution of scientific inquiry for the discovery and analysis of excess emissions from diesel passenger cars ("dieselgate"). It shows current estimates for the health impacts and costs of these excess emissions. It also argues that dieselgate is an instructive example for science’s ability to abandon the ivory tower and to provide answers for questions of high societal urgency - in an impartial, non-neutral way.