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New study puts air-pollution related deaths in India in 2019 at 1.67 million

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and that due to ambient ozone pollution increased by 139.2%. Climate change exacerbates pollution, the researchers noted, through atmospheric stagnation, temperature-driven increases in particulate matter, and ground-level ozone formation, which are likely to be particularly severe in India. since 1990.

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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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When we use clean, renewable energy, we are not just fulfilling the Paris Agreement to mitigate the effects of climate change, we could also reduce air pollution-related death rates in Europe by up to 55%. They focused particularly on PM 2.5 —Prof Lelieveld. Jos Lelieveld, Thomas Münzel et al.

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