Air pollution is driving a global health emergency
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Air pollution is a leading preventable risk factor for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Nine in 10 people are breathing dangerously polluted air. This causes more than one in eight deaths globally, with many millions more living with debilitating chronic diseases.
On top of human cost, air pollution also harms the environment, impacting ecosystems and threatening biodiversity, and contributes to the climate crisis. Reducing air pollution is therefore central to preventing NCDs and protecting human and planetary health.
Clean air interventions are shown to be cost-effective and fast-acting, but air pollution is only beginning to get the policy attention it deserves within global and national NCD responses.
