Pollution

Even before the pandemic, the UN determined that climate action could trigger $26 trillion in economic benefits by 2030, create 65 million new jobs and avoid 700,000 premature deaths from air pollution.
Ballard's focus on much-refined fuel-cell technology could reap the company benefits from China's promise to maintain aggressive efforts to reduce air pollution, partly through zero-emission buses and trucks.
Delivering 90% clean electricity in the US by 2035 avoids an estimated $1.2 trillion in environmental and health costs through 2050, by reducing air pollution and the impact of carbon emissions.
Ambitious climate action could generate $26 trillion in economic benefits between now and 2030, create 65 million jobs in 2030 and avoid 700,000 premature deaths from air pollution.
Ambitious climate action could generate USD26 trillion in economic benefits between now and 2030, create 65 million jobs in 2030, and avoid 700,000 premature deaths from air pollution.
The Trump administration's rollback of the Clean Car Standards will hurt Americans, increase harmful pollution, cause more than 18,000 premature deaths, and cost consumers billions of dollars at the gas pump.
A ban on new high-emissions vehicles by 2025 (15 years earlier than the current target) and greater incentives for sustainable mobility would reduce the number of premature deaths caused by air pollution (48,000 every year), also linked to potentially greater susceptibility to COVID-19; and.
Moving to a zero-emission future can deliver economic benefits of $26 tn through to 2030, create 65 million new low-carbon jobs and avoid 700,000 premature deaths from air pollution.
Moving to a zero-emission future can deliver economic benefits of $26 trillion through to 2030, create 65 million new low-carbon jobs and avoid 700,000 premature deaths from air pollution.
Air pollution is already costing the world more than US$ 5 trillion from decreased productivity every year: extreme weather conditions are putting populations around the world at risk of food and water insecurity.
A prevailing concern is that as American enterprises enter recession-mode, they will cut back their efforts to reduce air pollution.
The Trump administration finalized a new carbon emissions rule for US power plants that it said could cut pollution without damaging the coal industry, replacing a much tougher Obama-era version to fight climate change.
If Chile were to be fully powered by renewable energy by 2050, it could generate savings of more than $5 billion annually, reduce deaths related to air pollution in the capital, Santiago, and generate up to 11,000 new jobs.
Trees are vital in the fight against climate change, to tackle air pollution and help us achieve our net-zero target by 2050.
Britain will ban the sale of new gas, diesel and hybrid vehicles from 2035, five years earlier than planned, in an attempt to reduce air pollution and fossil fuel emissions.
Today's biggest dangers are all ecological in nature: water crises, biodiversity loss, extreme weather, climate change, and pollution.
Globally there will be twice as many vehicles on the road by 2050 - with nearly all of the projected growth taking place in developing countries, where air pollution is already a major challenge in many cities.
With the world's urban population projected to double between now and 2050, it is crucial to ensure that cities are built and run in a way that maximises access to opportunities without increasing carbon emissions, pollution, and congestion.
Tackling the twin dangers of air pollution and the climate emergency are key priorities for Transport for London (TfL), with latest plans seeing 2,000 zero-emission buses in London by 2025.
Sulphur will be cut drastically from global shipping transport fuels in 2020, in a move that should reduce some forms of air pollution, and may help towards tackling the climate emergency - but which could also lead to a rise in the price of flights.
The oil and gas industry could release an additional 227 million tons of greenhouse gas pollution in the U.S. by the year 2025, as companies expand drilling and build new plants.
While technological improvements will see related emissions from combustion engines falling by about 1.9 percent a year through to 2040, pollution from electric vehicles will fall anywhere from 3 percent and 10 percent annually.
President Trump's misguided actions could cost U.S. households an additional $14 billion in annual utility bill costs while spewing 25 power plants' worth of carbon pollution into our air each year, making climate change even worse.

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Last updated: 05 July 2020