What is the environmental impact of inhalational anaesthetic agents (IAAs)?

Relatively speaking – minor, accounting for only a 0.02% carbon dioxide equivalence contribution to climate change. Absolutely, however, it has been calculated that annually, the global emission of IAAs is equivalent to the climate warming effects produced by one coal-fired power station or 1 million passenger cars, at #4.4 million tonnes of CO₂.

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