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Cutting air pollution in Europe would prevent early deaths, improve productivity and curb climate change

News Published 16 Oct 2019 Last modified 23 Nov 2020

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Photo: © Rosana Grecchi, Sustainably Yours /EEA

Europe’s air is getting cleaner but persistent pollution, especially in cities, still damages people’s health and the economy. The European Environment Agency’s (EEA) new analysis on air quality shows that exposure to air pollution caused about 400,000 premature deaths in the European Union (EU) in 2016.