Environment Health

OUTDOOR AIR POLLUTION ACCOUNTS FOR MILLIONS OF DEATHS

NEW DELHI, Dec. 2, 2023 (TBINN)

Outdoor air pollution from all sources accounts for 2.18 million deaths per year in India, second only to China, according to a modelling study published in The B.M.J.

The research found that air pollution from using fossil fuels in industry, power generation and transportation accounts for 5.1 million extra deaths a year world-wide.

This equates to 61 per cent of a total estimated 8.3 million deaths world-wide due to ambient (outdoor) air pollution from all sources in 2019, which could potentially be avoided by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy, the researchers said.

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