Air pollution costs Europe US$ 1.6 trillion
Submitted by susan on Thu, 2015-05-07 16:29
A staggering US$ 1.6 trillion is the economic cost of the approximate 600,000 premature deaths and of the diseases caused by air pollution in the WHO European Region in 2010, according to the first-ever study of these costs conducted for the region. The amount is nearly equivalent to one-tenth of the gross domestic product (GDP) of the entire European Union in 2013.
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