Does most countries in the world have any standards of air quality?

Despite the growing visibility as a global crisis, air quality standards are not currently monitored or regulated by many countries around the world. In particular, developing countries tend to avoid air quality standards, as the short -term benefits of industrial force and increased national wealth outweigh the long -term benefits of limiting air pollution.

Pure air is a basic requirement for the healthy life of all people and animals. Unfortunately, many sources of fuel and other chemicals that people use to simplify and more comfortable life create a global threat. According to a study by the World Health Organization (WHO), diseases caused by air pollution contributes to the burning of solid fuels outside and in the interior to more than two million premature deaths every year. More than half of them occur in developing countries, the so -called "third world". The M10 is reduced by up to 15% per year. PM10 is a polluting substance released mainly by burningm fossil and other types of fuels. In fact, the WHO air quality instructions are much stricter than national standards in many countries. Fulfilling the recommended level of PM10 and other pollutants of the organization could require the country to reduce its current level up to three times - at least a challenge.

National standards that exist are very different. In particular, Asia and the Middle East suffer from the lack of appropriate standards of air quality. China uses a bulk of coal, the main source of PM10, as well as India. Both countries have large populations at the same time prosperous and suffer from the use of fuels that threaten clean air. Worse, air pollution affects neighboring countries as air, obviously cannot be limited by borders. Some countries like Thailand and Malaysia still monitor the standards of air quality from the 80s and since 2006 in Afghanistan, Bhutan, Lau or Pakistan have not existedNo air quality standards.

Many critics have pointed out that industrial giants and world leaders, such as the US and the United Kingdom, have technology and wealth for the necessary and dramatic changes in air quality standards, but do not make almost as much as they could support clean air efforts.