May 29, 2022
Upgrade your UPSC Preparation with our Daily dose of Current Affairs. In today's edition, we will discuss Lancet Report on Pollution and Health. Check the topic's relevance from the UPSC CSE point of view.
For Prelims: Pollution and health: A Progress Update, Air Pollution, Lead Pollution, PM 2.5
For Mains: Interlink between pollution and health, Ways to tackle the air pollution
Also read about Quad Summit, a crucial topic from the UPSC exam preparation point of view.
Recently, the Lancet Commission on pollution and health reported that air pollution was responsible for 16.7 lakh deaths in 2019 or 17.8% of all deaths in India (2019).
Despite its substantial effects on health, societies, and economies, pollution prevention is largely overlooked in the international development agenda. Comment
World Air Quality Report 2021: Greenpeace’s World Air Quality Report 2021, noted New Delhi as the most polluted capital in the world, in terms of PM 2.5. PM 2.5 is estimated to cause over 3,000,000 premature deaths. The report mentions that in 2021, Central and South Asia had some of the world’s worst air quality and were home to 46 of the world’s 50 most polluted cities. UNEP report on air quality-related deaths: According to the United Nations Environment Program, 70 percent of global air quality-related deaths occur in Central and South Asia. In fact, except in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, PM2.5 concentrations increased in Central and South Asian countries in 2021, which negated the quarantine-related improvements in the air quality. |
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Pollution and its cost
International organizations need to establish an SPI (Science Policy Interface) for pollution, similar to those for climate and biodiversity, initially for chemicals, waste, and air pollution.
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