The second international convention on air and well being air pollution, from March 25 to 27, will ask international locations to purchase voluntary actions to realize a 50% discount within the impacts on the well being of air air pollution by 2040. The occasion is co -organized by the World Well being Group and the Authorities of Colombia with the assist of the Authorities of Spain and different UN businesses corresponding to UNEP, AMM, the World Financial institution and others.
Air air pollution stays one of many biggest environmental threats to human well being, inflicting tens of millions of untimely deaths yearly. The rise in temperatures and environmental modifications (excessive warmth, extra frequent forest fires and sand and mud storms, exacerbate the danger. This exposes communities, particularly probably the most weak, to severe well being dangers, interrupts key financial sectors and harm ecosystems.
“Defending human well being and saving lives is crucial for the mission of the World Meteorological Group,” mentioned the final secretary of the OMM Celeste Saulo in a video message to the excessive -level phase of the convention.
He recalled the 75 -year historical past of WMO of remodeling science into motion that enhances determination making.
The early warnings of the UN Secretary Normal for All Initiative search to make sure that every individual is roofed by early alert programs in opposition to the hazards of local weather and local weather, together with the damaging mixture of warmth and poor air high quality, mentioned Celeste Saulo.
“WMO advances the warning and operational recommendation programs for sand and mud storms and forest fires to assist international locations mitigate well being, financial and environmental impacts. WMO seeks to strengthen the monitoring of atmospheric composition to hint cross -border air pollution and inform insurance policies that safeguard public well being,” he mentioned.
The worldwide environment of WMO observes its international air air pollution initiative and the prognosis data system seeks to offer the required instruments and data on the regional and international degree.
WMO co -organized devoted classes on air high quality monitoring, forest fires, sand storms and mud on the convention. WMO has issued new pointers on the mitigation of sand and mud storm, which include a assessment of monitoring, prognosis and affect evaluation.
However expertise alone shouldn’t be sufficient. The development of native capability is vital, guaranteeing the interpretation of air high quality information into efficient insurance policies and actions that save life.
Passing air high quality, public well being and climatic motion is crucial. Some air pollution are additionally greenhouse gases, and addressing them requires coordinated insurance policies that present advantages on a number of fronts.
To tell the choice -making, WMO publishes annual newsletters on greenhouse gases, high quality and air local weather, air mud and ozone and UV.
Individuals within the convention in Colombia embrace Ministers of Well being, respective Environmental Ministers, Vitality and officers of nationwide, intergovernmental and improvement businesses; well being professionals; Mayors, native authorities and planners; representatives of essential sectors corresponding to power, transport, trade, waste and land use; in addition to delegates of analysis, academia and civil society.