A new global study has quantified the huge health benefits of stronger policies to reduce road transport pollution, claiming that without such policies, premature deaths linked to air pollution from road transport – specifically PM2.5 and ozone – will rise from 193,000 in 2023 to nearly 278,000 by 2040.
A new study using data from Japan’s GOSAT-2 satellite is offering an insight into how much pollution the world’s major cities are actually producing and revealing that widely used emissions databases may be off the mark, especially when it comes to developing countries.