More than half of the premature deaths caused by air pollution in the EU could have been avoided if the WHO’s air quality guidelines had been followed, says a briefing paper published by the European Environment Agency on Monday 15 November.
This document presents updated estimates on how three key pollutants (fine particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide and ground-level ozone) affected the health of Europeans in 2019.
It shows that air quality improved in 2019 compared to the previous year,...