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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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Using a new method of modeling the effects of various sources of outdoor air pollution on death rates, the researchers found that it caused an estimated 790,000 extra deaths in the whole of Europe in 2015 and 659,000 deaths in the 28 Member States of the European Union (EU-28). million deaths in 2015.

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Air pollution could claim 6.6 million lives per year by 2050, double current rate; small domestic fires and ag the worst offenders

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Lelieveld, his colleague Andrea Pozzer and their colleagues in the USA, Cyprus and Saudi Arabia investigated for the first time how mortality rates are affected by various emission sources, such as industry, transport, agriculture, fossil fuel-fired power plants, as well as domestic energy use. Jos Lelieveld, John S.

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Carmakers are going green but British motorists are not

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EU regulation is striving to cut the CO2 emitted by cars to an average figure of 130 g/km by 2015. Cyprus / 166 / 170 / 20. The average British driver comes sixteenth in the list with 158g/km (eg. VW Passat). Director at the ETA, Andrew Davis, said: “Car makers can build green cars, but they need us to buy them.

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