AIR pollution is now the 'single largest environmental health risk',according to a new report released by the World Health Organization. The report,the Burden of disease from joint Household and Ambient Air Pollution said 4.3 million deaths globally were as a result of house hold air pollution with low and middle-income countries bearing the Brant.
“Almost 600’000 deaths occur in Africa, 200’000 in the Eastern Mediterranean region. Globally, 3.7 million deaths were attributable to ambient air pollution (AAP) in 2012. About 88% of these deaths occur in low- and middle-income (LMI) countries, which represent 82% of the world population,” part of the report says. The report comes against a backdrop of the rising carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere.
During this year's world meteorological day celebrated at the Kenya meteorological headquarters,Joseph Cheruiyot,the assistant director public education and outreach said the rising carbon dioxide being released to the atmosphere is the main cause for climate change.
“Our forest continue to dwindle day in day out. This has contributed to the climate change that is being noticed,we need not to take this for granted as we have several impacts associated with climate change. It is complex to predict the weather nowadays unlike in the past,” Cheruiyot said.
