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India (Air Pollution)
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Global solutions to the challenges associated with air pollution and specifically dealing with rising incidences of disease
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The implantation and enforcement of anti-pollution legislation have been slow and lagged well behind the country's economic growth.
As living standards increase it is expected that pollution controls will assume greater priority in the future, some progress will be made;
- In Bihar state, the chimneys of brick-kilns have been retrofitted to reduce smoke emissions.
- Restrictions will be placed on the burning of stubble in fields, a major cause of air pollution in rural areas.
- Fourteen Indian cities re currently building transit metro systems.
- Subsidies for petrol and diesel will be scraped, 1/3 of all electricity is produced by noxious generators powered by petrol and diesel fuel.
National solutions to the challenges associated with air pollution and specifically dealing with rising incidences of disease
Policies devised at the global scale to tackle climate change will have benefits for human health at national and local levels by cutting Co2 and other GHG emissions.
In 2012, 37 countries in the EU states agreed targets to to cut GHG emissions by 18% of 1990 levels by 2020.
The EU also has the worlds largest carbon cap-and-trade scheme and each EU state has targets for expanding renewable energy and policies to comply with the European climate change programme.
Other global initiatives include he annual World Cancer day, drawing attention to the current cancer 'epidemic' and pressing governments to take more action to tackle disease.
Most recently, WHO published a 'draft road map' to address the problem of cancer as a leading avoidable cause of death, and to confront the adverse health affects of air pollution.
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