The World Health Organization has set guidelines for how many tiny particles and how much toxic gas can dirty the air, but stressed that no level of pollution is safe to breathe.
“Every year of delay of reaching limit values directly translates into more death and disease,” said Barbara Hoffman, the chair of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) advocacy council and head of environmental epidemiology at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf.
“These numbers make it clear that allowing delays will impose a substantial, unjust and unacceptable loss of human lives in Europe,” the scientists wrote.
The European Council has proposed that countries with a high share of low-income households and a GDP per person below the EU average should be allowed to hit limit values as late as 2040, because they have less money to invest in cleaning up.
It would be better for human health in these countries to set laws and provide money to speed up “urgently needed” clean air policies, they added.
An impact assessment from the European Commission found that fully meeting the WHO guidelines by 2030 would deliver the greatest net economic benefit of the three scenarios it considered, with savings of €38bn (£32bn) a year.
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Both indoor and outdoor air pollution with a PM above 10 micro meter, causes the early death of 7 M worldwide on a yearly basis. Plus there is severe illness to millions more according to worlddata.
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The World Health Organization has set guidelines for how many tiny particles and how much toxic gas can dirty the air, but stressed that no level of pollution is safe to breathe.
“Every year of delay of reaching limit values directly translates into more death and disease,” said Barbara Hoffman, the chair of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) advocacy council and head of environmental epidemiology at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf.
“These numbers make it clear that allowing delays will impose a substantial, unjust and unacceptable loss of human lives in Europe,” the scientists wrote.
The European Council has proposed that countries with a high share of low-income households and a GDP per person below the EU average should be allowed to hit limit values as late as 2040, because they have less money to invest in cleaning up.
It would be better for human health in these countries to set laws and provide money to speed up “urgently needed” clean air policies, they added.
An impact assessment from the European Commission found that fully meeting the WHO guidelines by 2030 would deliver the greatest net economic benefit of the three scenarios it considered, with savings of €38bn (£32bn) a year.
The original article contains 618 words, the summary contains 201 words. Saved 67%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Both indoor and outdoor air pollution with a PM above 10 micro meter, causes the early death of 7 M worldwide on a yearly basis. Plus there is severe illness to millions more according to worlddata.