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Study: air pollution caused 1.1M deaths across Africa in 2019, toll from outdoor pollution rising

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Deaths attributable to household air pollution and ambient particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) air pollution in Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda, and overall in Africa, 1990–2019. The team devoted special attention to three rapidly developing Sub-Saharan countries: Ethiopia, Ghana and Rwanda. Air pollution was responsible for 1.1

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Global Fuel Economy Initiative launches second 3-year campaign; ICCT joins partnership

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It also announced that a new partner—the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT)—has joined the effort. GFEI was launched in 2009 as a partnership of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Transport Forum (ITF) and FIA Foundation.

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Study finds economic losses due to health burdens caused by in-car PM2.5 exposure inversely proportional to per capita GDP

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Surrey’s Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) set out to investigate whether the amount of PM 2.5 The study was part of the Clean Air Engineering for Cities (CArE-Cities) project and builds upon its previous work around car exposure. Environment International 155, 106688 doi: 1?0?.?1?0?1?6?/?j?.?e?n?v?i?n?t?.?2?0?2?1?.?1?0?6?6?8?8.

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Drivers from the world’s poorest cities who keep their windows down are exposed to 80% more air pollution

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The study was part of the Clean Air Engineering for Cities (CArE-Cities) project. Science of the Total Environment , 141395 doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141395. —Professor Prashant Kumar, Director of GCARE at the University of Surrey. Morawska, L., Muula, A.S., Ngowi, A.V., 2020.141395.

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