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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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years); 150 in Poland (reduction in life expectancy of 2.8 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.

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