2023年9月19日 · Air pollution is the leading environmental risk to health, causing 7 million premature deaths each year. This is equivalent to the number of people that have died from COVID-19 since March 2020. A recent World Bank publication found that air pollution cost the globe an estimated $8.1 trillion in 2019, equivalent to 6.1 percent of global GDP.

2022年9月1日 · Air pollution is the world’s leading environmental cause of illness and premature death. Fine air pollution particles or aerosols, also known as fine particulate matter or PM 2.5 , are responsible for 6.4 million deaths every year, caused by diseases such as ischemic heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...

Environmental tax reforms can have multiple co-benefits beyond climate (Heine and Black, 2019). For example, the reduction in fossil fuel consumption induced by excise taxes on fuels or carbon reduces local air pollution, contributing to SDG3 (Good Health and …

2024年10月8日 · Addressing environmental degradation and the loss of nature is essential to ending poverty on a livable planet. A healthy environment is also key to ensure that people can lead healthy and productive lives, and that public and private resources can be invested in advancing development instead of remediating pollution.

2020年9月4日 · Pollution Management and the Development of Prosperous Cities. This research aims to investigate the linkage between environmental pollution and the prosperity and competitiveness of cities, providing new evidence of the impact of pollution on productivity and its economic implications in fast-growing cities in Africa and Asia.

2023年4月20日 · Abatement costs have emerged as a key tool to drive the decarbonization of economies, reduce its cost, and to assess the efficiency of a technology, an investment or a public policy. But how far can this tool go and what are its limitations? Stéphane Hallegatte explains.

2024年3月28日 · Environmental pollution is taking a heavy toll on children. Lead poisoning is causing irreversible damage to children’s brain development, resulting in an estimated annual loss of nearly 20 million IQ points. Household emissions from cooking with solid fuels is a major source of air pollution and affect women and children.

Air pollution poses a major health risk globally, weighing on economies and people. In 2017, an estimated 4.13 to 5.39 million people died from exposure to PM2.5 pollutants – one of the most harmful forms of air pollution. Tackling air pollution requires sustained political commitment and comprehensive programs across sectors. The three pillars of an effective air pollution …

Gas flaring is the 160-year-old oil industry practice of wastefully burning associated gas, a common by-product that is extracted from reservoirs together with oil, typically from a flare stack located at an oil production site.

It is also supporting pollution management through river clean-up and legacy pollution projects, using carbon finance funds to scale up use of cleaner stoves to reduce indoor pollution for women and children, and developing partnerships with the private sector to spur cleaner production standards and strategies. Resilient