- Air pollution is the largest environmental risk to human health globally.
- Tens of thousands of people died from related deaths last year, despite an economic slow down caused by coronavirus.
- In the five most-populated cities air pollution caused about 160,000 deaths and economic losses totaling about $85 billion.
Air pollution caused tens of thousands of deaths in the world’s five most populous cities last year despite coronavirus lockdowns, researchers said, urging governments to ditch fossil fuels and invest in a green recovery.
Environmental campaign group Greenpeace Southeast Asia and air quality technology company IQAir measured pollution levels across 28 cities – chosen according to where data was available and with a geographical spread.
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