{"id":6705,"date":"2020-02-29T13:17:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T07:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=6705"},"modified":"2020-02-29T13:17:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T07:47:55","slug":"world-air-quality-report-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/world-air-quality-report-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"World Air Quality Report 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims: Environment; Current Affairs<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/air.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6706\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/air.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"727\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/air.jpg 727w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/air-150x63.jpg 150w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/air-300x126.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 727px) 100vw, 727px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The 2019 World Air Quality Report was released by the pollution tracker IQAir and Greenpeace.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key findings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>India accounts for two-thirds of the world\u2019s most polluted cities \u2014 21 of the most polluted 30 cities; 14 of the highest 20; and 6 of the highest 10.<\/li>\n<li>The ranking is based on a comparison of PM2.5 levels.<\/li>\n<li>Among countries, when population is taken into account, average PM2.5 pollution is highest in Bangladesh, followed by Pakistan, while India is at number 5.<\/li>\n<li>While cities in India, on average, exceed the WHO target for annual PM2.5 exposure by 500%, national air pollution decreased by 20% from 2018 to 2019, with 98% of cities experiencing improvements. These improvements are believed to be largely a result of economic slowdown.<\/li>\n<li>According to it, around 90% of the global population is breathing unsafe air.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: Environment; Current Affairs Why in news? The 2019 World Air Quality Report was released by the pollution tracker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,42],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-6705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-general-studies-iii-technology-economic-development-bio-diversity-environment-security-and-disaster-management","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6707,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6705\/revisions\/6707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}