Every year, the World Environment Day is organized around a theme so as to draw consideration towards pressing environmental issues.
Since its inception in 1974, the World Environment Day is celebrated each year on June 5 in excess of 100 nations. The World Environment Day gives an opportunity to widen the “basis for an enlightened opinion and responsible conduct by individuals, enterprises and communities in preserving and enhancing the environment,” as indicated by the United Nations.
Consistently, the World Environment Day is organized around a theme so as to draw consideration towards pressing environmental issues.
Theme for World Environment Day 2019
‘Beat Air Pollution’, the theme for World Environment Day 2019, is a call for activity call to battle the worldwide emergency and has been picked by the current year’s host, China
The point welcomes individuals to think about how they can change their everyday lives to reduce the amount of air pollution and thwart its contribution to global warming and its effects on health, according to the global body.
Causes of Air Pollution
The UN says that understanding the different types of pollution, and how it affects our health and environment, will help people take steps towards improving the air around them.
“Often you can’t even see it, but air pollution is everywhere. We can’t stop breathing, but we can do something about the quality of our air,” the UN says.
Nine out of ten people worldwide are exposed to levels of air pollutants that exceed safe levels set by the World Health Organization.
Types of Air Pollution
Household air contamination caused because of indoor consuming of fossil fuels, wood and other biomass-based fuels leads to around 3.8 million premature deaths, mostly in developing countries.
Industrial and transport pollution have been connected to a large number of unexpected losses worldwide every year. Around 24 percent of greenhouse gas emission worldwide come from agriculture, forestry and other land-use.
Waste burning and dumping release harmful dioxins, methane and black carbon into the atmosphere while volcanic eruptions, dust storms and other natural processes also contribute to global air pollution