{"id":13924,"date":"2021-02-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/uncategorized\/19-02-2021\/polluted-air-killed-54000-in-delhi-greenpeace-report\/"},"modified":"2021-02-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T00:00:00","slug":"polluted-air-killed-54000-in-delhi-greenpeace-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/19-02-2021\/polluted-air-killed-54000-in-delhi-greenpeace-report","title":{"rendered":"Polluted air killed 54,000 in Delhi: Greenpeace Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In News:<\/strong> Air Pollution is excessively damaging in 6 Indian Cities as per Greenpeace Report.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key findings of the Report<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Air pollution claimed approximately 54,000 lives in Delhi in 2020.<\/li>\n<li>6 Indian cities were assessed and everywhere air pollution is excessively damaging.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cfstatic.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/file_library\/mix_content\/63256718674071190_image.png\" style=\"height:255px; margin-left:170px; margin-right:170px; width:291px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Globally, approximately 1,60,000 deaths have been attributed to PM 2.5 air pollution in the five most populous cities: <strong>Delhi, Mexico City, S\u00e3o Paulo, Shanghai and Tokyo<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cost Estimator<\/strong>, an online tool was deployed to access realtime health impact by using PM 2.5, population and public health data.\n<ul>\n<li>It was developed with collaboration between <strong>Greenpeace Southeast Asia, IQAir and the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Cost estimators also sustained the estimated air pollution-related economic losses of Rs. 1,23,65,15,40,000.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u2018Willingness-to-pay\u2019 approach: <\/strong>This new approach was used by Greenpeace to access the economic cost.\n<ul>\n<li>It is calculated by accessing monetary value which people are willing to pay\u00a0 to avoid a lost life year or a year lived with disability.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Out of the <strong>28 global cities studied, Delhi<\/strong> <strong>bore the highest economic cost<\/strong> of air pollution despite a strict COVID-19 lockdown.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other findings on Environmental Pollution<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Three environmental crises at present\n<ul>\n<li>Climate change.<\/li>\n<li>Nature loss.<\/li>\n<li>Pollution of air, soil and water.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Irresponsible and indifferent actions of governments, financial institutions, businesses and individuals.<\/li>\n<li>In <strong>2020<\/strong>, the <strong>UN Environment Programme (UNEP)<\/strong> announced the world is headed for global warming of more than 3\u00b0C this century despite the Lockdown and reduced CO2 emission.<\/li>\n<li>The recent <strong>Dasgupta\u2019s Global Review on the Economics of Biodiversity<\/strong> reminded the same about the environment.\n<ul>\n<li>Per capita stock of natural capital (the resources and services nature provides to humanity) has fallen by 40% in just over two decades.<\/li>\n<li>A staggering nine out of 10 people worldwide breathe polluted air.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Way Ahead for Air Pollution<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>UN\u2019s Making Peace with Nature report:<\/strong> It has compiled all evidence of environmental decline with the most advanced ideas on how to reverse it.\n<ul>\n<li>It can act as a <strong>blueprint for a sustainable future<\/strong> that can secure human well-being on a healthy planet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Making People Aware: <\/strong>Sustainable Development Goals can\u2019t be achieved by 2030 if climate change and ecosystem collapse.\n<ul>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li>Environmental damage is undermining food and water supplies in the world\u2019s poorest countries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Proper Economic Assessment of Losses: <\/strong>It may render the lucrative present day business models unviable.\n<ul>\n<li>Banks would stop funding fossil fuels.<\/li>\n<li>Governments would shift trillions of Dollars in subsidies to eco-friendly technologies.<\/li>\n<li>People also need to be sensitised for prioritizing health and well-being over consumption and shrink their environmental footprint.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs):<\/strong> There is increasing compliance and at present 126 states are working to achieve net zero emission.<\/li>\n<li>Governments must also finally agree on the rules for a <strong>global carbon trading market<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>$100 billion that developed countries promised to provide every year<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Circular economic systems: <\/strong>It reuses resources, reduces emissions and weeds out the chemicals and toxins that are causing millions of premature deaths, all while creating jobs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Our environmental, social and economic challenges are interlinked.<\/strong> Further, the world is sitting on a ticking time bomb which needs urgent action as highlighted by various reports.<\/li>\n<li>Multi-pronged action should be taken by engaging all stakeholders to combat the severe problem.<strong> The current need is to show a unified stance by both developing and developed to tackle this mammoth challenge before humanity.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/make-peace-with-nature-now\/article33874206.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In News: Air Pollution is excessively damaging in 6 Indian Cities as per Greenpeace Report. Key findings of the Report Air pollution claimed approximately 54,000 lives in Delhi in 2020. 6 Indian cities were assessed and everywhere air pollution is excessively damaging. Globally, approximately 1,60,000 deaths have been attributed to PM 2.5 air pollution in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2023\/07\/6057513current-affairs (2).jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}