{"id":133598,"date":"2024-09-09T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T05:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/investing-in-clean-air-can-saves-lives-and-combat-climate-change\/"},"modified":"2024-09-09T08:00:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T05:00:11","slug":"investing-in-clean-air-can-saves-lives-and-combat-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/investing-in-clean-air-can-saves-lives-and-combat-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Investing in clean air can saves lives and combat climate change"},"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\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\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=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133598\" \/>\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    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/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>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>In Landmannalaugar, Iceland (pictured) clean air is important for the health and day-to-day lives of people. Unsplash\/Luca Baggio In Landmannalaugar, Iceland (pictured) clean air is important for the health and day-to-day lives of people. The UN Secretary-General is marking \u2018Clean Air Day\u2019 with a call for global investment in solutions that tackle climate change and the increasing public health, environmental, and economic harm caused by air pollution.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s International Day for Clean air and Blue Skies, celebrated annually on 7 September, is focused on the theme \u2018Invest in #CleanAirNow\u2019 and highlights the economic, environmental and health benefits of investing in clean air. The Day was established in 2019 after the UN General Assembly noted how detrimental air pollutants are and recognised the importance of clean air for people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n<p>UN chief Ant\u00f3nio Guterres said pollution is a silent killer that can be stopped and urged the world to \u201cinvest now, so we can breathe easy\u201d. Mr. Guterres highlighted how harmful pollution can be, noting that 99 per cent of humanity breathes polluted air which leads to millions of global premature deaths. \u201cPollution is also choking economies and heating up our planet, adding fuel to the fire of the climate crisis,\u201d the UN chief said. \u201cAnd it disproportionally affects those most vulnerable in society, including women, children, and older persons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary-General said investing in clean air will take action from governments, businesses, development organizations and more at a regional and global level. Mr. Guterres is encouraging the relevant stakeholders to decrease their use of fossil fuels, transition to clean cooking and increase air quality monitoring.\u201c\u200b\u200bInvesting in clean air saves lives, combats climate change, strengthens economies, builds fairer societies, and advances the Sustainable Development Goals,\u201d he said. \u201c&#8230;let\u2019s invest now so we can breathe easy knowing we are securing a healthier planet for all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Guterres\u2019 message marking the international day highlights some of the challenges outlined in a new report from the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which details the impacts of climate change, wildfires and air pollution on human health. The report noted that both the northern and southern hemispheres experienced \u201chyper-active wildfire seasons\u201d in 2023 which caused numerous deaths and damaged livestock.&#8221;The 2023 wildfire season set a multi-decade record in Canada in terms of total area burned, with seven times more hectares burned than the 1990\u20132013 average, according to the Canadian National Fire Database,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The wildfires also worsened air quality in eastern Canada and the north-eastern United States. For that reason, the WMO Deputy-Secretary-General Ko Barrett said climate change and air quality cannot be treated separately. \u201cThey go hand-in-hand and must be tackled together,\u201d Ms. Barrett said. \u201cIt would be a win-win situation for the health of our planet, its people and our economies, to recognise the inter-relationship and act accordingly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2024\/09\/1154051\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2024\/09\/1154051\">The UN<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/investing-in-clean-air-can-saves-lives-and-combat-climate-change\/\">Investing in clean air can saves lives and combat climate change<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","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],"tags":[575,16018,16019],"class_list":["post-133598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-investing-clean-air","tag-save-live"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}