Urban population exposure to air pollution in Europe over the last decades.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The paper presents an overview of air quality in the 27 member countries of the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (previous EU-28), from 2000 to 2017. We reviewed the progress made towards meeting the air quality standards established by the EU Ambient Air Quality Directives (European Council Directive 2008/50/EC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Air Quality Guidelines by estimating the trends (Mann-Kendal test) in national emissions of main air pollutants, urban population exposure to air pollution, and in mortality related to exposure to ambient fine particles (PM_2.5) and tropospheric ozone (O₃).

Results

Despite significant reductions of emissions (e.g., sulfur oxides: ~ 80%, nitrogen oxides: ~ 46%, non-methane volatile orga

SUBMITTER: Sicard P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7937352 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature