Air quality in Europe 2022

Finding innovative ways to reduce air pollution

Despite improvements over the past two decades, Europe's air quality remains poor in many places, according to the European Environment Agency's ...

Germany complied with air quality limit values nearly everywhere in ...

Germany recorded no exceedances of particulate matter threshold values in 2022 for the fifth consecutive year.

The 2022 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown on health and ...

Compared with pre-industrial times, the mean average European surface air temperature increase has been almost 1°C higher than the average global temperature ...

Clean Air in Europe for All: Taking Stock of the Proposed Revision to ...

Despite continued trends of decreasing air pollution concentrations in Europe [4], 95% and 75% of monitoring stations recorded values above 2021 ...

Abrupt exacerbation in air quality over Europe after the outbreak of ...

Results show pandemic-induced lockdowns mitigated regional air pollution in Europe, but the war activities led to an average increase of approximately 9.78% in ...

What You Need to Know About Climate Change and Air Pollution

We asked Yewande Awe, a Senior Environmental Engineer at the World Bank, to explain why addressing air pollution is key to tackle the climate ...

Health at a Glance: Europe 2022 : State of Health in the EU Cycle

It also addresses a number of important behavioural and environmental risk factors that have a major impact on people's health and mortality, highlighting the ...

EU air quality agreement sends a positive signal but leaves loopholes

The European Union agreed on 20 February 2024 on an update to its air quality rules, a step towards its aim of zero air pollution by 2050.

Impact of 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns on particulate air pollution ...

and Di Stefano, R.: When did coronavirus arrive in Europe?, Stat. Method. Appl., 31, 181–195, doi.org/10.1007/s10260-021-00568-4, 2022.

Urgent Call to Ensure Clean Air For All in Europe, Fight Health ...

In October 2022 the European Commission presented its proposal for a revised AAQD with limit values of 10 ug/m3 for PM2.5 and 20 μg/m3 for NO2 ...

Air quality in Ireland 2022 | Environmental Protection Agency

Ireland met all of its EU legal requirements in 2022, but it did not meet the new health-based WHO guidelines in 2022. Ireland and Europe should move towards ...

Air pollution - Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

October 27, 2022 ... The European Health Report is produced every three years by the WHO Regional Office for Europe, providing insight into the Regional progress ...

EU adopts pioneering air pollution law for Europe - Clean Air Fund

The new AAQD sets binding air quality standards (limits and targets) for countries to achieve by 2030 for all major pollutants and specifically ...

Reviewing the links and feedbacks between climate change and air ...

(2022) estimated a non-robust slight ozone benefit over Europe on an ... For Europe, the anthropogenic emissions of the main air quality components ...

Air Quality - EEB - The European Environmental Bureau

Air Quality Air pollution is Europe's invisible killer. Each year in the EU over 300000 people die prematurely as a result of breathing toxic air.

Which European cities have the best and worst air quality?

What is the EU doing to improve air quality? ... The European Green Deal's zero pollution action plan includes a target of reducing premature ...

World Air Quality Index (AQI) Ranking - IQAir

Keep track of the most polluted cities in the world with our air quality index (AQI) ranking.

No clean air in sight: Europe's worst-affected cities - VSquare.org

According to a 2022 Eurobarometer survey, a majority of Europeans see respiratory diseases caused by air pollution as a serious problem now.

the First Global Assessment of Air Pollution Legislation | UNEP

... air quality legislation in 194 countries and the European Union. ... UNEP Medium Term Strategy (2022–2025) · Programme of Work and Budget ...

WMO Bulletin: heatwaves worsen air quality and pollution

Climate change increases the frequency and intensity of heatwaves · Air quality and climate change must be tackled together · The European heatwave of 2022 led to ...