{"id":73241,"date":"2023-03-30T23:55:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T22:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jazairhope.org\/?p=73241"},"modified":"2023-03-30T23:55:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T22:55:38","slug":"homepage-africa-algeria-tops-a-ranking-of-the-least-polluted-arab-countries-africa-algeria-tops-a-ranking-of-the-least-polluted-arab-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazairhope.org\/en\/homepage-africa-algeria-tops-a-ranking-of-the-least-polluted-arab-countries-africa-algeria-tops-a-ranking-of-the-least-polluted-arab-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Homepage \u00bb AFRICA: Algeria tops a ranking of the least polluted Arab countries AFRICA: Algeria tops a ranking of the least polluted Arab countries"},"content":{"rendered":"
Only 5% of Arab countries comply with the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the fight against air pollution. This is the alarming finding of the environmental organization IQAir based in Switzerland, which has just published\u00a0a ranking on air quality in 2022<\/a>. In the Arab world, Algeria is the country that best respects the levels of pollution regulations before Iraq and Pakistan, which remain the most polluted in the world, just behind Chad.<\/p>\n IQAir relied on data from more than 30,000 monitoring stations at 7,323 sites around the world, but also on the involvement of local communities to conduct this analysis, which praises Australia, Estonia, Finland, Grenada (an island state in the Caribbean), Iceland and New Zealand. \u201cToo many people around the world are unaware that they are breathing polluted air. Air pollution monitors provide hard data that can inspire communities to demand change and hold polluters accountable, but when monitoring is inconsistent or uneven, vulnerable communities can be left without data to act. Everyone deserves to have their health protected from air pollution,\u201d says Aidan Farrow, Climate Scientist for Greenpeace International.<\/p>\n Indeed, this phenomenon accentuated by industrial activities (toxic chemicals, fumes) and urbanization kills 9 million people each year across the planet since 2015 and weakens biodiversity, according to the results of the study \u201cGlobal Health<\/a>\u201d published in the second half of 2022 in the British scientific journal The Lancet. If Algeria is seen by IQAir as a model country in the fight against air pollution, it is primarily thanks to the ecological initiatives, including awareness, which follow one another in this North African country.<\/p>\nImproving urban air quality<\/h3>\n
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