Pushing to #BeatAirPollution on World Environment Day
Celebrated every year on June 5,
World Environment Day is the United Nations’ biggest annual event for positive
environmental action to encourage worldwide awareness of the need to protect
our planet.. Since the first World Environment Day in 1974, the event has grown
to become a global platform for positive public outreach on the environment in
over 100 countries.
This year, China will host World Environment Day, with events taking place in the eastern city of Hangzhou; in addition, there will be a a large number of events and celebrations around the world.
The theme of World Environment Day 2019 is #BeatAirPollution, calling on governments, industry, communities and individuals to take action to explore renewable energy and green technologies, and improve the air quality in cities and regions across the world.
This complex, existential challenge demands immediate attention and action. More than 6 billion people, one-third of them children, regularly breathe air that is so polluted it puts their health and well-being at risk. That is more than 90 per cent of the world’s population. In many developing countries, people face the double burden of indoor and outdoor pollution.
Air pollution also goes to the heart of social justice and global inequality. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 97 per cent of cities in low- and middle-income countries with more than 100,000 inhabitants do not meet air quality guidelines. That percentage falls to 49 in high-income countries. The good news is that air pollution is preventable. The solutions -- laws, standards, policies, programmes, investments and technologies -- are widely known and can be implemented. Clean air is a human right. It is everyone’s right and everyone’s responsibility. Each one of us has a role to play in ensuring that the air we breathe does not end up killing us.
Together we can #BeatAirPollution #WorldEnvironmentDay
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