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Study: air pollution causes 800,000 extra deaths a year in Europe and 8.8 million worldwide

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—Co-author Professor Thomas Münzel, of the Department of Cardiology of the University Medical Centre Mainz. times higher than the WHO guideline of 10 ?g/m g/m 3 should be adjusted downwards to the WHO guideline of 10 ?g/m Indeed, new evidence may lead to a further lowering of the WHO guideline in the near future.

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Global Mobility Report finds world not on track to achieving sustainable mobility

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The GMR is the first study to assess the global performance of the transport sector and the progress made toward four main objectives: universal access, efficiency, safety, and green mobility. The GMR report focuses on two primary impacts: climate change and air and noise pollution. —GMR 2017.

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Summary of decisions from Durban climate conference

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Governments at the COP17 meeting decided to adopt some form of a universal legal agreement on climate change as soon. markets all remain in action as effective tools to leverage global climate action and as models to inform. Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). existing climate change.

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Black carbon linked to increased cardiovascular risk; exacerbated by co-exposure to motor vehicle emissions

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A new international study led by McGill University (Canada) Professor Jill Baumgartner suggests that black carbon may also increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. China Climate Change Emissions Health' The team’s findings are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States (PNAS).

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We Need to Decarbonize Software

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s climate-change conference, to discuss the urgent need to lower emissions. The W3C’s Sustainable Web Design Community Group released a draft of its Web sustainability guidelines , with both tactical and technical recommendations for business and product strategy, user-experience design, Web development, and hosting and infrastructure.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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“ One Agreement, Two Steps ” Expectations for Copenhagen quickly became complicated after Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen boarded an overnight flight to Singapore to address an impromptu breakfast forum on climate change at the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit on 15 November. by Jack Rosebro.

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Rule Britannia: Can the UK Set Global AI Standards?

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And it says the government should coordinate efforts to develop the AI technologies that will be key in the fight against global climate change. That, he says, is why it may help if AI has a generally-accepted set of guidelines. There's a big culture around ethics within the medical discipline.

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