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Pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and premature death. Pollution causes more than 9 million premature deaths, the majority of them due to air pollution. That’s several times more deaths than from AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria combined. Global health crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, are reminders of the strong ...
As a result, an estimated 92% of the world’s population lives in areas where air pollution exceeds safety limits, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), causing millions of deaths a year and costing the global economy billions of dollars in lost labour income.
It also made them the world’s first industrial-scale toxic metal air polluters – perhaps causing us to rethink the timing of the moment when humans truly began to change the environment. Formal recognition of the Anthropocene epoch, the “Age of Humans”, will acknowledge the occurrence of an unprecedented impact of human activities on Earth.
Pollution is a major problem in many cities around the world, but it is especially bad in some of the world’s biggest cities and Lagos is one example and is notorious for its large population, high concentration of motor vehicles and industrial pollution. The causes of the pollution are many, and the pollution has many effects on the environment. It is estimated that at least 30,000 people ...
China’s industrial sector is responsible for around 70 percent of environmental pollution and 72 percent of greenhouse (GHG) emissions in the country. As most industrial production takes place within industrial parks, these parks are thought to account for the majority of total resource use, pollution, and waste in the country.
The Bangladesh Country Environmental Analysis (CEA) finds air pollution, unsafe water, poor sanitation and hygiene, and lead exposure cause over 272,000 premature deaths and 5.2 billion days of illness annually. These environmental issues cost the equivalent of 17.6 percent of Bangladesh's GDP in 2019. Household and outdoor air pollution have ...
In addition to health, air pollution is also linked to biodiversity and ecosystem loss, and has adverse impacts on human capital. Reducing air pollution, on the other hand, not only improves health but strengthens economies. A recent World Bank study found that a 20% decrease in PM 2.5 concentration is associated with a 16% increase in ...
Image: McKinsey & Company. In 2019, the CIEL estimated that production and incineration of plastic would add 850 million metric tons of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere – equivalent to 189 coal-fired power plants. By 2050 this could rise to 2.8 gigatons of carbon dioxide per year – or 615 coal plants’ worth.
A recent World Bank report suggests that such a release of pollution upstream lowers economic growth in downstream areas, reducing GDP growth in these regions by up to a third. To make it worse, in middle-income countries like India where water pollution is a bigger problem, the impact increases to a loss of almost half of GDP growth.
The World Bank is supporting Egypt’s efforts to improve the quality of its environment through the following operations: Launched in 2020, this US$ 200 million operation aims to improve the air quality in greater Cairo as well as empower people to better cope with the existing high pollution levels. The operation aims to achieve its goals ...