Air pollution is slashing years from billions of people's lives around the world and is a greater threat to life expectancy than smoking, HIV/AIDS or war, a new report shows.
In countries where air pollution levels are below standards set by the World Health Organization , people are, on average, losing 2.2 years of their lives.India has the highest levels of air pollution globally and its residents stand to lose more years than those of any other country, with an average of 5.9 years shaved off their lives, according to the Air Quality Life Index , published in an annual report by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago .
"World leaders will gather in the Scottish city of Glasgow in November for international climate talks, known as COP26, and putting an end date to"unabated coal" is high on the agenda. Some fossil fuel companies are arguing for their futures by"capturing" enough of the greenhouse gases from their fuels to prevent them from entering the atmosphere, causing air pollution and climate change.
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