It has revised several existing guidelines and aims to reduce the number of premature deaths by more than 75% in ten years. Air pollution caused more than 300,000 premature deaths in 2019, according to the European Environment Agency.
The European Commission has reviewed and modernized several directives in force with the aim of gradually achieving “zero pollutants” in air and water, both above ground and underground, and municipal waste in the European Union by 2050.
The goal is to halve air pollution from 2030, which the European Commission says will be more in line with World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines, and to zero by 2050.
To achieve this, Brussels is introducing a periodic review of the standards – the first in 2028 – and a reduction to more than half of the annual limit value of the main pollutant, fine particulate matter (PM2.5), as well as nitrogen dioxide and carbon. ozone, which is expected to reduce the number of premature deaths by more than 75% in ten years.
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