Highlighting the work to counter air pollution.




Air pollution has been called the most-pressing environmental health crisis of our time, responsible for an estimated 7 million premature deaths every year. Approximately nine in 10 people around the world breathe unclean air, which increases the risk of asthma, heart disease and lung cancer.

City dwellers, especially the poor, often suffer the most from air pollution, which along with imperilling lives, feeds climate change. Realizing those dangers, several municipalities are taking action to combat airborne contaminants. On 7 September,we will focus the urgent need to improve air quality, we look at five of those cities.

We celebrate this year’s International Day of Clean Air for blue skies by highlighting work to counter air pollution in Bogota, Warsaw, Accra and…  Read the Story of the Five cities tackling air pollution



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