ScareAngaluru, India – is the dirty air in the world, with only 17% of cities globally completing the air pollution guide, a report on Tuesday revealed.
The Switzerland -based Air Quality Monitoring Database IQUR analyzed data from 40,000 air quality monitoring stations in 138 countries and found that Chad, Congo, Bangladesh, Pakistan and India had dirty air. The Industrial Dyogan city of northeast India was six of the nine polluted cities in India with Berenhat.
Experts said the actual amount of air pollution can be much higher because many parts of the world lack the necessary monitoring for more accurate data. In Africa, for example, there is only one monitoring station for every 7.7 million people.
The report states that more air quality monitors are being established to cope with this issue. This year, report writers were able to include data from 8,954 new locations and about a thousand new monitors as a result of efforts to better monitor air pollution.
But last week, data monitoring for air pollution was hit when the U.S. It was announced by the State Department that it would no longer reveal its data from its embassies and consulates around the world.
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Fatimah Ahmed, chief scientist and air pollution specialist at the Malaysia -based Sunway Center for Planetary Health, said that prolonged polluted air can cause respiratory illness. World Health Organization Estimation It kills about 7 million people every year.
Ahmed said there is a lot of need to do to reduce the level of air pollution. Who were Found earlier 99% of the world’s population lives in places that do not recommend quality levels in the air.
“If you have bad water, no water, you can ask people to wait half an hour a day, the water will come. But if you have bad air, you can’t ask people to breathe, “he said.
Some cities like Beijing, Seoul, South Korea and Rybnik in Poland have successfully improved their air quality through strict rules on vehicles, power plants and industry pollution. They have also promoted cleaner Energy and invested in public transport.
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Another significant effort to prevent serious air pollution was the connection of the Southeast Asian Nations Agreement on Transboundary Fog Pollution. Although its limited success has so far, the ten countries in the area promised to work together to monitor and prevent pollution from the fire of large forest, which is a common occurrence in the region during dry Asons.
Leading the global climate and health connection campaign, Shweta Narayan said that there are also places where the planet-heated gases are widely released by coal, oil and gas burning. Slashing the planet-ming ruming emissions to slow down the planet can also improve the quality of air, he said.
He said that air pollution and climate crisis are “two sides of the same coin.”
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