Air pollution in Cairo, Egypt. Credit: World Bank/Kim Eun Yeul ” Source:
ROME, Sep 29 2016 (IPS) – The warning is sharp and the facts, alarming: 92 per cent of the world’s population live in places where levels exceed recommended limits. And 6.5 million people die annually from air pollution.
And the warning comes from the leading United Nations agency dealing with health, which rolled out its most detailed profile of the scourge ever in a bid to slash the deadly toll.
“Fast action to tackle air pollution can’t come soon enough,” the Geneva-based UN World Health Organization () top environmental official Maria Neira on 27 September of th…