{"id":119146,"date":"2023-12-05T07:35:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T05:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/yleinen\/cop28-host-uae-choking-from-its-own-toxic-air-pollution-hrw\/"},"modified":"2023-12-05T07:35:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T05:35:11","slug":"cop28-host-uae-choking-from-its-own-toxic-air-pollution-hrw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/yleinen\/cop28-host-uae-choking-from-its-own-toxic-air-pollution-hrw\/","title":{"rendered":"COP28 host UAE choking from its own \u2018toxic\u2019 air pollution: HRW"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119146\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>The United Arab Emirates is choking under \u201calarmingly high\u201d air pollution levels fed by its fossil fuel industry, Human Rights Watch warned on Monday as the oil-rich country hosts the UN\u2019s COP28 climate talks in Dubai. Air pollution is a \u201cdirty secret\u201d buried by a stifling of dissent in the UAE, the rights group said, adding that bad air created poses \u201cmajor health risks\u201d for its population.<\/p>\n<p>Smog engulfed the city state after the climate talks began on Thursday and hit officially \u201cunhealthy\u201d levels over the weekend. \u201cEven as the United Arab Emirates government works to burnish its image as a global climate leader\u2026 the country\u2019s vast fossil fuel production and use spew toxic pollutants into the air,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The HRW report said analysis of government air pollution data and satellite imagery from 2018 to 2023 found \u201cdangerously high air pollution levels\u201d in the country of nearly 10 million people. It downplayed claims that pollution is mainly caused by desert dust, citing a 2022 study published by Nature that found that around the Arabian Peninsula, more than 90 percent of fine-particulate matter \u2014 the most hazardous \u2014 was man-made.<\/p>\n<p>Burning fossil fuels for transport, heating, incinerating waste, generating electricity and other industrial activities are among the sources of pollution, it said. \u201cFossil fuels pollute the air people breathe in the UAE,\u201d said Richard Pearshouse, HRW\u2019s environment director. \u201cBut the obliteration of civil society by the UAE\u2019s government means that no one can publicly express concerns, let alone criticise the government\u2019s failure to prevent this harm,\u201d he said.The UAE\u2019s climate ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Air pollution has been high over the opening days of COP28, shrouding the glitzy Dubai skyline and hitting \u201cunhealthy\u201d levels on Saturday and Sunday, according to the WAQI.info tracking site. Analysis of levels of PM2.5 pollution \u2014 the fine particles that can enter the bloodstream via the lungs \u2014 from 30 government monitoring stations in September found they were triple the WHO\u2019s air-quality guidelines on average, HRW said.<\/p>\n<p>WHO estimates point to about 1,872 deaths a year from outdoor air pollution in the UAE, the report said, and the migrant workers that make up the bulk of the population are most at risk. \u201c(The) UAE is a factory that produces patients. The workers return with disease. There are very few people who leave here with a healthy body,\u201d HRW quoted one migrant worker as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/world\/cop28-host-uae-choking-from-its-own-toxic-air-pollution-hrw\/article\">Digital Journal<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/yleinen\/cop28-host-uae-choking-from-its-own-toxic-air-pollution-hrw\/\">COP28 host UAE choking from its own \u2018toxic\u2019 air pollution: HRW<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[7812,555,12525,3692,655],"class_list":["post-119146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-yleinen","tag-cop28","tag-csr-news-en","tag-toxicair-pollution","tag-uae","tag-yleinen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}