Green Car Congress
MAY 12, 2020
Levels of two major air pollutants have been reduced significantly since lockdowns began in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but a secondary pollutant—ground-level ozone—has increased in China, according to new research. Ozone is harmful to humans at ground-level, causing pulmonary and heart disease. —Guy Brasseur.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 1, 2019
and ozone deaths, associated mortality rates, and population in G20 economies in 2015. and ozone worldwide in 2010 and ~385,000 in 2015, equivalent to 11.7% and ozone premature deaths in 2010 and 11.4% and ozone concentrations from transportation emissions resulted in 7.8 and ozone deaths in 2015, broken out by subsector.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 17, 2020
Dr Sara De Matteis, Associate Professor in Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Cagliari University, Italy, and member of the ERS Environmental Health Committee said: Urban air quality has improved in the last half century, but petrol and especially diesel vehicle fumes remain a serious problem. Bottom: NO 2 has also dropped.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 20, 2020
The satellite carries the Tropomi instrument to map a multitude of trace gases such as nitrogen dioxide, ozone, formaldehyde, sulfur dioxide, methane, carbon monoxide and aerosols. ©ESA/ATG Sentinel-5 Precursor is the first Copernicus mission dedicated to monitoring the atmosphere. ©ESA/ATG medialab.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 6, 2013
This was agreed by: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey,the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union, as well as Ethiopia, Spain, Senegal, Brunei, Kazakhstan, and Singapore.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
Many regions in Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain are also characterized by lower incomes and education, higher levels of unemployment and larger elderly populations. Extreme temperatures. Southern and south-eastern European regions are more affected by higher temperatures.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 12, 2019
years in life expectancy); 136 in Italy (reduction in life expectancy of 1.9 They applied these to a new model of global exposure and death rates and to data from the WHO, which included information on population density, geographical locations, ages, risk factors for several diseases and causes of death. They focused particularly on PM 2.5
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