{"id":23770,"date":"2021-02-18T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kyotoclub.org\/?p=23770"},"modified":"2021-02-22T09:07:52","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T08:07:52","slug":"air-pollution-kills-thousands-in-megacities-despite-covid-lockdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kyotoclub.org\/en\/news-en\/news-from-the-world\/2021\/02\/18\/air-pollution-kills-thousands-in-megacities-despite-covid-lockdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Air pollution kills thousands in megacities despite COVID lockdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Air pollution caused tens of thousands of deaths in the world&#8217;s five most populous cities last year despite coronavirus lockdowns, researchers said on Thursday, urging governments to ditch fossil fuels and invest in a green recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Environmental campaign group Greenpeace Southeast Asia and air quality technology company&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iqair.com\/us\/\">IQAir<\/a>&nbsp;measured pollution levels&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-southeastasia-stateless\/2021\/02\/ef76f49b-methodology_-revealing-the-cost-of-air-pollution-in-world-cities-annual-results-for-2020.pdf\">across 28 cities<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; chosen according to where data was available and with a geographical spread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the five most-populated cities &#8211; Delhi, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Shanghai and Tokyo &#8211; air pollution caused about 160,000 deaths and economic losses totalling about $85 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;A few months of lockdown hasn&#8217;t really dented that long-term average of air pollution that people have been exposed to,&#8221; said Aidan Farrow, an air pollution scientist at Greenpeace Research Laboratories at Britain&#8217;s University of Exeter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It is a little shocking to see how much upheaval there has been &#8211; and we still have work to do to improve air pollution,&#8221; he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eceee.org\/all-news\/news\/news-2021\/air-pollution-kills-thousands-in-megacities-despite-covid-lockdowns\/\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers find home working and economic slowdowns due to the coronavirus pandemic have failed to stem deaths from dirty air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kc_post_selected_socio_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-23770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-from-the-world","tag-news-progetto-eln"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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