Air pollution claims around 300,000 lives each year in the EU and around seven million worldwide. Community institutions have agreed to tighten the thresholds for the main causes of air pollution.
The updating of the limits for each pollutant, which must be met from 2030, still do not match the latest recommendations of the World Health Organization. “In the year 2022, 80% of the population breathed air that fails to meet the new legal objectives,” warns Ecologistas en Acción.