{"id":87082,"date":"2019-12-20T17:13:55","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T11:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=12491"},"modified":"2019-12-20T17:13:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T11:43:55","slug":"india-had-most-deaths-caused-by-pollution-in-2017-new-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-had-most-deaths-caused-by-pollution-in-2017-new-report\/","title":{"rendered":"India had most deaths caused by pollution in 2017: new report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>Global Alliance on Health and Pollution (GAHP) 2019 has released Pollution and Health Metrics: Global, Regional and Country Analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In 2017, pollution was responsible for 15% of all deaths globally.<\/li><li>India had the most pollution-related deaths (about 2.3 million) followed by China and Nigeria.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Information<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>State of Global Air 2019 (published by Health Effects Institute (HEI))<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Air pollution led to 5 million deaths in 2017<\/li><li>South Asian region (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan) accounted for over 1.5 million deaths.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Indian Govt Initiatives to combat Air Pollution:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>National Clean Air Programme (NCAP<\/strong>): launched in 2019, it is a five-year action plan. it aims at 20%\u201330% reduction of PM2.5 and PM10 concentration by 2024, taking 2017 as the base year for the comparison of concentration. The program targets 102 non-attainment cities.<\/li><li>&nbsp;<strong>Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojna<\/strong>: It seeks to replace unclean cooking fuels used in the most underprivileged households with clean and more efficient LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas). A major objective of the scheme is to ensure smoke-free houses and thus curb indoor air pollution.<\/li><li>The Indian government has also decided to <strong>skip BS-V and directly move to BS-VI<\/strong> from 2020. It has further agreed to advance the proposed date for Euro-VI from 2026 to 2020.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Global Alliance on Health and Pollution (GAHP) 2019 has released Pollution and Health Metrics: Global, Regional and Country Analysis. Facts: Key takeaways: In 2017, pollution was responsible for 15% of all deaths globally. India had the most pollution-related deaths (about 2.3 million) followed by China and Nigeria. Additional Information State of Global Air 2019&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-had-most-deaths-caused-by-pollution-in-2017-new-report\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India had most deaths caused by pollution in 2017: new report<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[243],"class_list":["post-87082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-pollution","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700774533,"cached_date":1704914115},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}