Long speech on changes in Lifestyle to breathe (environment)
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Clean air is fundamental to healthy human life. Yet the vast majority of the world’s population lives in places where they are exposed to poor air quality, with estimated 6.5 million deaths associated with exposure to air pollution in 2012 alone. This has the potential to get significantly worse, as population growth, economic growth and urbanization cram ever more people into increasingly polluted cities.
Even in relatively wealthy Europe, air pollution continues to take a heavy toll on health, causing around 400,000 early deaths annually. With air quality failing to meet legal standards in the majority of European Union countries, people and environmental organizations are increasingly going to court to demand action.
At the heart of the problem is a lack of political will, a symptom of a legal and political order which puts private profit before public health.
ClientEarth has been at the centre of this movement. Building on a landmark 2014 ruling from the European Court of Justice which embedded the right to clean air in European Union law, ClientEarth is working with partners across Europe to bring cases before national courts. These cases are spurring action to protect human health. At the same time, they are delivering significant benefits for climate change mitigation.
Courts in Germany have ordered regional governments to consider banning diesel in city centres in order to achieve air quality standards. Courts in Poland upheld a ban on solid fuel burning in Krakow to tackle winter smogs that see particulate matter reach levels many times higher than legal limits. This ban will come into force in 2019.
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