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OCTOBER 28, 2020

Millions of used cars, vans and minibuses exported from Europe, the United States and Japan to the developing world are of poor quality, contributing significantly to air pollution and hindering efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change, according to a new report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

Morocco 186

Morocco Nigeria Netherlands Gambia 186

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JUNE 26, 2021

For the study, published in the journal Environment International , the team monitored pollution hotspots in 10 global cities: Dhaka (Bangladesh); São Paulo (Brazil); Guangzhou (China); Medellín (Colombia); Cairo (Egypt); Addis Ababa (Ethiopia); Chennai (India); Sulaymaniyah (Iraq); Blantyre (Malawi); and Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania).?.

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Malawi Pollution Ethiopia Tanzania 243

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AUGUST 7, 2020

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. The research team investigated PM 2.5 —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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Pollution Malawi Ethiopia Tanzania 170