Jens Müller – Transport & Environment https://www.transportenvironment.org Campaigning for cleaner transport in Europe Thu, 07 Apr 2022 11:44:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 No going back to pre-Covid air pollution levels – opinion poll https://www.transportenvironment.org/discover/no-going-back-pre-covid-air-pollution-levels-opinion-poll/ Wed, 10 Jun 2020 14:59:42 +0000 https://www.transportenvironment.org/discover/no-going-back-pre-covid-air-pollution-levels-opinion-poll/ Levels of air pollution from traffic and other sources plummeted when countries imposed pandemic lockdown measures. Post lockdown, pollution has ramped back up [1] in China, compounded by unusually high levels [2] of commuter traffic. In a major international survey of public opinion in six European countries, published today, just under two out of every three people (64%) on average said they do...

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]]> The cities where the chances of dying from transport pollution are highest are all in… Europe https://www.transportenvironment.org/discover/cities-where-chances-dying-transport-pollution-are-highest-are-all-europe/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 15:41:59 +0000 https://www.transportenvironment.org/discover/cities-where-chances-dying-transport-pollution-are-highest-are-all-europe/ Having looking at lots of different impacts, the report is clear that favouring diesel vehicles over recent decades has lead to transport having the biggest impact on human health. ‘On-road diesel vehicles contributed the most to pollution and associated disease burden,’ it says. And it points out that the long-time lag between the introduction of new vehicle standards and their fleet-wide...

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]]> Holidaymakers ‘forced to smoke’ https://www.transportenvironment.org/discover/holidaymakers-forced-smoke/ Thu, 30 Aug 2018 20:11:35 +0000 https://www.transportenvironment.org/discover/holidaymakers-forced-smoke/ The health impacts of air pollution have been known for some time, and the European Commission is currently taking legal action against several European cities for failing to meet air quality standards. The impact of poor air quality on humans is normally measured via the number of premature deaths per year caused by respiratory difficulties, but recently the independent climate research institute...

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]]> Summer tourists ‘forced to smoke’ in top European cities https://www.transportenvironment.org/discover/summer-tourists-forced-smoke-top-european-cities/ Thu, 09 Aug 2018 22:51:25 +0000 https://www.transportenvironment.org/discover/summer-tourists-forced-smoke-top-european-cities/ Graphic by T&E, based on these figures. Download full resolution. Also ES, DK, DE, PL. T&E crunched numbers from various sources to reveal the health impact of visiting Europe’s 10 most popular cities this summer. The parallel between air pollution and smoking cigarettes is based on research by Berkeley Earth, which focuses on fine particulate (PM2.5) – the most commonly used measure of air...

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