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  2. Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate ...

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    For example, each year, more than 6 million people die prematurely from indoor and outdoor air pollution. Short-lived climate pollutants are largely to blame. Fast actions on short-lived climate pollutants, such as the widespread adoption of advanced cook stoves and clean fuels, have the potential to prevent over 2 million of premature deaths ...

  3. Air pollution - Wikipedia

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    Air pollution causes disease by driving inflammation and oxidative stress, suppressing the immune system and by damaging DNA. [117] Even at very low levels (under the WHO recommended levels), fine particulates can continue to cause harm. [120] Children are highly vulnerable to air pollution as they breathe at a higher rate than adults.

  4. Climate change - Wikipedia

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    Climate change can also be used more broadly to include changes to the climate that have happened throughout Earth's history. [32] Global warming—used as early as 1975 [33] —became the more popular term after NASA climate scientist James Hansen used it in his 1988 testimony in the U.S. Senate. [34] Since the 2000s, climate change has ...

  5. Triple planetary crisis - Wikipedia

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    The climate crisis encompasses global warming and climate change, which have resulted from the excessive accumulation of greenhouse gases in the Earth's atmosphere. [8] It leads to rising temperatures, sea-level rise, and extreme weather events such as extreme precipitation, flooding, extreme heat events, severe storms, drought and more. [8]

  6. Environmental health - Wikipedia

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    The risk of air pollution is determined by the pollutant's hazard and the amount of exposure that affects a person. [36] For example, a child who plays outdoor sports will have a higher likelihood of outdoor air pollution exposure than an adult who tends to spend more time indoors, whether at work or elsewhere. [36]

  7. Smog - Wikipedia

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    Delhi is the most polluted [56] city in the world and according to one estimate, air pollution causes the death of about 10,500 people in Delhi every year. [ 57 ] [ 58 ] [ 59 ] During 2013–14, peak levels of fine particulate matter (PM) in Delhi increased by about 44%, primarily due to high vehicular and industrial emissions, construction ...

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