– air pollution from traffic is a new study found that for around 13,000 premature deaths annually in Germany. According to the published on Wednesday the investigation of the environmental research Institute of the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), Germany is in fourth rank in the world. Only in China (114.000), India (74.000) and the USA (22.000) to die, therefore, more people prematurely from diseases caused by ozone and fine dust.
Based on the size of the population to die, according to the ICCT study, the exhaust is nowhere more people at an early stage in Transport than in Germany. Per 100,000 inhabitants, there are cases in this country 17 premature death. This death rate is, according to the ICCT three times as high as the global average, and is nearly 50 percent above the average of all EU countries.
Berlin and Stuttgart, and Köln to the Top Ten of the world’s cities with the highest death rate. Worst of all, with exhaust gases, Milan and Turin are polluted. In Germany, the air in Stuttgart is the worst. Around 78 percent of the early deaths were the model calculations suggest that the emissions from Diesel Cars, buses and Trucks.
3.4 million Deaths due to air pollution
In the case of the study by the ICCT, which was instrumental in the discovery of the diesel scandal, worked together with researchers from the George Washington University and the University of Colorado Boulder. The researchers brought together data on the emission behaviour of vehicles from the year 2015 with models to common diseases, in order to calculate the health impact of traffic on different levels. Were included the emissions of Cars, buses, Trucks, ships, agricultural vehicles and construction machinery.
the World died, therefore, about 3.4 million people at an early stage of the General air pollution. Ozone and fine dust diseases diseases of the heart, stroke, chronic lung, lung cancer, infections of the lower respiratory trigger paths, as well as Diabetes. 385,000 in the global premature deaths are consequences of fine dust and ozone from the transport sector.
The statistical calculation of premature deaths is discussed in science and politics hot. Some of the lungs doctors do not believe that there is enough evidence for a link between air pollution and deaths. The ICCT, however, refers to a variety of so-called epidemiological studies, in which the connection is established.
discussion on the maximum value
Germany cases in the traffic-related death so badly off, according to the ICCT on the high proportion of diesel vehicles that emit very much fine dust and nitrogen oxide. Nitrogen oxide is a Precursor chemical for ozone and particulate matter. In diesel vehicles the global average for almost half of these early deaths – and in Germany for two-thirds.
Responsible in particular for Diesel, according to ICCT passenger Cars and light commercial vehicles below the Euro standard 5b, as well as Trucks and buses to emission standard Euro V and older. The researchers stress the importance of driving bans, as well as programs for faster replacement of the vehicle fleet towards a zero-emission transport for the health of the city population.
The ICCT calls for a lowering of the limit value for fine dust. In Germany a limit value of 25 micrograms per cubic meter of air, annual average. In fact, the people in the section were exposed to 13.5 micrograms. The world health organization considers fine dust but even at less than ten micro-grams of harmful. (AFP, Tsp)
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