Markus Amann is the Program Director of the Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases Program. He also serves as the head of the Centre for Integrated Assessment Modelling of the European Monitoring and Evaluation...
Date: December 12, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Can welfare losses and forgone labor output be added together to give a fuller picture of air pollution costs? Welfare losses and forgone labor output should not be added together because they are...
Date: September 9, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
WASHINGTON, DC September 8, 2016— Air pollution has emerged as the deadliest form of pollution and the fourth leading risk factor for premature deaths worldwide. Those deaths cost the global economy about...
Date: September 8, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Lake Aibi is shrinking. The largest saltwater lake in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is less than half of its size of just 60 years ago. Located in an internally draining, salt-rich...
Date: April 5, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
What is PM2.5 ? It is a microscopic particle—2.5 microns in width and almost 30 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair. When levels are high, PM2.5 particles form a haze in the sky, making their...
Date: July 14, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Stella walks to work every day within the city limits of Lagos, Nigeria. She has the reverse commute of the scavenger, as her office sprawls upward on a 2,400 metric ton mountain of garbage called the...
Date: June 16, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
In many parts of the world, exposure to air pollution is increasing at an alarming rate and has become the main environmental threat to health. The latest edition of the World Bank’s annual compilation...
Date: June 16, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Washington, D.C.—Government officials from Egypt, Germany, Nigeria and Norway joined top musicians from around the world to commit to improving people’s health by ending pollution. Pollution contributes...
Date: April 20, 2015
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Often, environmental challenges seem too intractable and too big to even approach, but when it comes to pollution, there is good reason to stay positive. Santiago, Chile and Bangkok, Thailand serve as...
Date: April 13, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
When you hear about deadly air pollution, your mind is likely to turn to smog filled cityscapes and congested highways. Cities in India and China have become iconic for air pollution challenges and the...
Date: February 19, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
MALUNGON, SARANGANI – In the town of Malungon, Sarangani, dancing, singing, and parlor games gave the event the atmosphere of a fiesta (local festival). But it was an “activation program” for a campaign...
Date: November 19, 2014
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Honorable Congressman Alfredo Benitez, Honorable Mayors Mr. Del de Guzman, Mr. Jed Mabilog Ms. Cecilia Alba, Secretary General, Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) Ms. Ana...
Date: August 27, 2014
Type: Speeches and Transcripts
Language: English
Now a US$ 213 billion industry, environment and natural resource crimes such as poaching, illegal logging and wildlife trafficking are growing every year and putting natural resources at risk. This is...
Date: July 17, 2014
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
MANILA, MAY 28, 2014 – The World Bank has approved a $700,615 technical assistance grant that will provide data on the current state of the Philippines’ natural resources. Called Wealth Accounting and...
Date: May 29, 2014
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Without action to protect biodiversity at a time of disappearing habitats and increased poaching, Black Rhinos, Sumatran Tigers, Western Lowland Gorillas and thousands of other animals are on the...
Date: March 3, 2014
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
In Central America, making tortillas on a plancha (flat griddle) over a smoky fire is a way of life. Typically, women spend nearly four hours a day preparing tortillas, frijoles (fried bean paste), and...
Date: September 13, 2013
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
MANILA, JUNE 20, 2013 — Climate change is a global phenomenon whose impacts are already being personally felt by most Filipinos.In a recent survey conducted by the Social Weather Stations (SWS), 85 percent...
Date: June 21, 2013
Type: Press Release
Language: English
China, the world's largest producer of hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFC), received a US $95 million grant on April 23, 2013 to help reduce its production of HCFCs. These substances, used primarily in refrigeration...
Date: May 2, 2013
Type: Press Release
Language: English
In the Andean worldview, apus (Quechua for lords) refers to mountains associated with a divinity, an important character or to a group of mountains whose summits nourish nearby inhabitants by...
Date: March 25, 2013
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
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