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The health and environmental impact of transport is significant because transport burns most of the world's petroleum.This causes illness and deaths from air pollution, including nitrous oxides and particulates, and is a significant cause of climate change through emission of carbon dioxide.
Text taken from How the energy crisis is exacerbating the food crisis , International Energy Agency. This article incorporates text from a free content work. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (license statement/permission). Text taken from A 10-point plan to reduce the European Union's reliance on Russian natural gas , International Energy Agency.
The main motivation for mobility transition is the reduction of the harm and damage that traffic causes to people (mostly but not solely due to collisions) and the environment (which also often directly or indirectly affects people) in order to make (urban) society more livable, as well as solving various interconnected logistical, social ...
A small nation's defiant exit from COP29 has exposed what many in the developing world have long understood: the global climate agenda is increasingly becoming a story of power asymmetry rather ...
Google trends data shows that, following the 2006 release of Al Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth, [1] searches for the term climate crisis increased, with a resurgence beginning in late 2018. Also graphed: searches for the term climate emergency. Climate crisis is a term that is used to describe global warming and climate change and their ...
U.S. traffic deaths jumped 10.5% in 2021 to 42,915, the highest number of people killed on American roads in a single year since 2005, while the number of pedestrians and cyclists killed rose to ...
The power crisis also prompted Texas to begin overhauling its grid to increase reliability. Coleman cited factors including ocean and atmospheric patterns that point to winter weather similar to ...
Air pollution is the introduction of chemicals, particulate matter, or biological materials into the atmosphere that cause harm or discomfort to humans or other living organisms, or damage ecosystems. Health problems attributed to air pollution include premature death, cancer, organ failure, infections, behavioral changes, and other diseases.