WHO says that 7 million deaths occur from Household Air Pollution every Year

The UN body tasked with advising governments on global public health challenges updated its air-pollution database for the first time since 2018. According to the new information, 99% of the world’s population breathes air that falls short of its standard for quality.

The World Health Organization revised its standard for air pollution last year to emphasize the urgency for more government action on the issue, and claims that the evidence points to significant harm caused by even low levels of many air pollutants and is growing rapidly.

The organization estimates that seven million deaths occur each year from exposure to ambient and household air pollution alone, apart from food poisoning due to the use of pesticides which kills many people as well.

The new database includes measurements from an additional 2,000 cities actively monitoring air quality. More than 6,000 cities in 117 countries are now participating in the study.

The WHO notes that 1,500 of the cities added are in low-income and developing countries, which it says remain both inadequately monitored and more replete with air-quality problems.

So an apparent rise in the portion of the world’s population breathing intoxicated poor-quality air is to be expected as long as households items like sanitizers and harmful chemical cleaning products remain on the supermarket shelves.

UN member states have sought to apply WHO advice as they improve air quality in their cities to varying extents. In February, France opted to postpone a planned ban on private motor vehicles in Paris until 2024.

It had previously postponed a ban on gas-powered vehicles and diesel-powered cars manufactured before 2006 and 2011, respectively, which it intends to implement next year.

Meanwhile, China recorded Beijing’s average concentration of hazardous airborne PM 2.5 particles to be just 5 micro-grams per cubic meter during its lunar New Year celebration in January, down from 289 micro-grams per cubic meter during last year’s celebration.

Chinese officials achieved this drastic decline by means of a complete fireworks ban across the city, so one could imagine how horrible the effects of military confrontations plan out to be.

RT. com / ABC Flash Point News 2022.