Tag: Air pollution
Pakistan tries to reduce a very harmful pollution cloud with artificial rain
Artificial rain was used for the first time on Saturday in Pakistan to combat the smog which is very harmful to the health of the population which is stagnating in…
The ZFE will be imposed in 2025 but will be very unrestrictive
Nantes motorists will be relieved to learn this. The Low Emission Zone (ZFE), which consists of prohibiting road access to certain categories of polluting vehicles to improve air quality, currently…
“Alarming” levels of air pollution in the Emirates
Host country of COP28, the Emirates are not an example when it comes to air quality. According to the NGO Human Right Watch (HRW), Dubai is the scene of particularly…
In the middle of a climate conference, pollution blocks the sky over Dubai and the air is “unhealthy”
If COP28 participants need an example of the effects of pollution on this Sunday dedicated to health, they don’t have far to look. Dubai’s skies are clogged with pollution, its…
The Environmental Authority criticizes policies that do not respond to the issues
The government will have to review its copy on nitrates. In a note adopted on November 23, the French Environmental Authority (AE) criticized the measures taken, judging that the “nitrate…
Why is air quality never “good” in Brittany?
This is a rare event that occurred last week in Brittany. Something that doesn’t happen often but that no one really noticed. Except us, maybe. Because this rare thing is…
Despite “progress”, the State fined ten million euros
A conviction for inaction. The State was again sanctioned on Friday for not having sufficiently combated air pollution by the Council of State, which points to significant exceedances of certain…
Guadeloupe placed on red alert for air quality
Air quality is currently very poor in Guadeloupe. The region has been placed on red alert due to a concentration of fine particles linked to the passage of sand mists…
Greenhouse gas concentrations hit records in 2022
Sad record for the year 2022. Global average concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2), the most important greenhouse gas, have exceeded pre-industrial values by 50%. They continued to increase this year,…
A hundred NGOs urge the president to end all fossil fuels
Not a simple “commitment” but a “formal decision”. This is what more than a hundred NGOs who signed a letter addressed to the president of COP28, Sultan Al Jaber, concerning…