New Delhi: aims to save people from the effects of air pollution, the World Health Organization (WHO) Wednesday released a revised air quality guideline for six main pollutants, including very dangerous particulates – PM2.5 and PM10 – making it tighter Compared to the previous standards set in 2005.
India is currently working on revising air quality standards which was last updated in 2009.
They will be released next year.
More than seven million deaths around the world every year are currently associated with exposure to this pollutant, which says.
New standards will mean 90% of the global population and nearly 100% of people in South Asia live in areas that exceed the pollution threshold.
Although this air quality guide (AQG) is not legally binding for countries, they can help them issue their respective benchmarks while taking into account meteorological and topographic elements.
“I urge all countries to use this guide to use, save lives, support a healthy community and help overcome the climate crisis,” said Director General of Tedro Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Twice worse: PM Delhi 2.5 is now 17 times a safe limit that claims that “around 80% of deaths associated with PM2.5 parking in the world can be avoided if countries reach an annual AQG level for PM2.5”.
Among all classical pollutants, the inhaled PM2.5 is considered the most dangerous because it is stored in the lungs through breathing and causing serious respiratory problems.
India is also expected to make this standard strict through its renewal.
Although it may not be at the WHO standard level, experts expect it, at least, closer to global standards.
“Air pollution is a severe health crisis and who is a revised air quality guide to restore focus on this problem.
There are no two ways about the need to revise the standard of Indian air quality to make them tighter.
Even at the standard 40 UG which is relaxed today / m3 for The average annual PM2.5 in India vs WHO’S 2005 annual limits of 10 UG / m3, most of the Indian cities failed to meet these levels, “said SN Tripathi, Professor in Iit Kanpur and members of the steering committee of the country’s national clean air Program (NCAP).
Tripathi, at the same time, called for strengthening Indian health data.
He said, “Raw health data is needed to carry out various health studies vis-a-vis impact air pollution for demographics, varied Indian exposure.
And different composition PM2.5.
The response of a single exposure prevention will not be in accordance with the Indian population.” Below NCAP, India has a target to reduce 20-30% concentration of PM2.5 and PM10 by 2024 from the 2017 level.
The release of the guidelines ahead of the 26th session of the UN Climate Conference (COP26) assumes the significance in the ongoing momentum view to reduce home gas emissions Glass (GHG) substantially to meet the objectives of the Paris Agreement.
This conference is scheduled to be held at Glasgow, England in November.
Some air pollutants – especially black carbon (PM components) and troposphere ozone (ground level) – also a short-lived climate pollutant, which is related to the health effects and heating near the planet.
Because they survive in the atmosphere in just a few days or months and the reduction has its benefits not only for health but also for the climate, which says, “Almost all efforts to improve air quality can increase climate change mitigation, and climate change mitigation efforts can, in turn , improve air quality.
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