DANGERS OF AIR POLLUTION WORSE THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT, UN HEALTH AGENCY WARNS

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DANGERS OF AIR POLLUTION WORSE THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT, UN HEALTH AGENCY WARNS
New York, Apr 8 2013 1:00PM
The dangers posed by air pollution are far larger than previously
thought, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has
announced, as it renewed its call for rapid global action in reducing
what it described as one of "the greatest hazards to human health."

The warning came at the latest meeting of the UN Environment
Programme's (UNEP) Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC), held in
Paris, France, over the weekend, where health advocates were told that
indoor air pollution had become the leading risk factor for "burden of
disease" in South Asia while it was ranked second in Eastern, Central
and Western Sub-Saharan Africa and third in Southeast Asia.

"The estimations we have now tell us there are 3.5 million premature
deaths every year caused by household air pollution, and 3.3 million
death every year caused by outdoor air pollution," Dr. Maria Neira,
the WHO's Director of Public Health and Environment, told the CCAC
meeting.

Ground-level ozone pollution was estimated to cause an additionally
200,000 premature deaths every year, the agency said in a press
release, which notes that "burden of disease" is a calculation based
on years of life lost combined with years lived at less than full
health.

"Air pollution is becoming one of the biggest health issues we have in
front of us at the moment," Dr. Neira said.

The CCAC, whose partners include Member States and civil society
health advocates, targets so-called short-lived climate pollutants, or
SLCPs, as major culprits in the damage to health, as well as the cause
of crop loss and climate change.

SLCPs that are harmful to human health are released through numerous
sources ranging from diesel engine exhaust and smoke and soot from
inefficient cook stoves to leakage and flaring from oil and natural
gas production and emissions from solid waste disposal.

Pointing to cook stoves, for example, the UN health agency stated that
many of those appliances emit carbon monoxide and other pollutants at
levels up to 100 times higher than recommended limits.

In a press statement marking the meeting, UNEP noted that fast action
on SLCPs could "dramatically" reduce the number of annual deaths from
air pollution. Efforts to lower black carbon emissions from
heavy-duty vehicles and engines were receiving "particularly strong
attention" from the CCAC.

In addition, it added that the CCAC had already launched efforts to
reduce black carbon and other pollutants from brick production through
the adoption of modern technologies, which can lower the emission of
pollutants by 10 to 50 per cent, while efforts to distribute clean
cook stoves were already underway in Bangladesh.
Apr 8 2013 1:00PM
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