Fine particle air pollution led to 238,000 premature deaths in the European Union in 2020, the bloc's environmental watchdog said Thursday, a slight rise from the previous year.
Across the European Union in 202,"exposure to concentrations of fine particulate matter above the 2021 World Health Organization guideline level resulted in 238,000 premature deaths," the European Environment Agency said in a new report. FILE PHOTO
That was slightly more than those recorded in 2019 in the EU, despite a fall in emissions due to COVID curbs. Also in 2020, exposure to nitrogen dioxide above the WHO's recommended threshold led to 49,000 premature deaths in the EU, the EEA said."When comparing 2020 to 2019, the number of premature deaths attributable to air pollution increased for PM2.5 but decreased for NO2 and O3," the agency said.
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