Health risks due to air pollution
What are the leaders doing?
Climate crisis is a health crisis too
The amount of diseases that are caused in children because of the air pollution in Mexico.
1680 children under 5 years of age die each year due to poor air quality.
Between 1990 and 2015, the # of deaths attributable to this increased 60 percent.
Air pollution kills an estimated 7 million people each year worldwide
Climate changes effects:
More extreme natural disasters
Exacerbates malnutrition
The spread of infectious diseases
2016: The worst year
Deaths of minors between 0 and 4 years represented 53.4 percent from asthma
There were 902 deaths from acute respiratory infection in children and adolescents.
United Nations actions
Seeks to decrease the threat that is the air pollution in its vision of a better world by four SDG's
SDG 3: Health and well-being.
SDG 7: Affordable and clean energy.
SDG 11: Sustainable cities and communities.
SDG 13: Climate action.
In 2019, more than 80 cities in more than 50 countries committed to the WHO air quality guidelines and agree to align the climate and pollution policies
The WHO seeks to develop policy options for the governments to reduce the health risks that causes air pollution.