The European Respiratory Society has called on the EU to strengthen its legislation on air quality, and says measures to reduce greenhouse gases will also help fight air pollution.
In an article published in the European Society Journal, representatives of the society say tightening air quality requirements would bring significant health benefits that would lengthen life expectancy and ‘the benefits of such policies would outweigh the costs by a large amount’. It also says raising the EU’s greenhouse gas reduction target for 2020 to 30% would create parallel reductions in fine particles, sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides.
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