A quarter of the world’s people die every year due to environmental problems

         The second United Nations Environment Assembly was held on the 23rd at the headquarters of the United Nations Environment Programme in Nairobi, Kenya. According to the “Healthy Planet, Healthy Mankind” report released that day, about a quarter of the deaths in the world are related to environmental problems, and improving the environment has become an urgent task for human health.

　　 [Environmental deterioration kills more than 10 million people a year]
Data from the “Healthy Planet, Healthy Mankind” report shows that in 2012, approximately 12.6 million people died due to environmental problems, accounting for a quarter of the global death toll. The number of premature deaths due to environmental degradation each year is higher than that of conflicts. 234 times. Air pollution, climate change, chemical exposure and water pollution are important environmental factors leading to human deaths.
　　 reports that about 7 million people around the world die from air pollution every year, of which 4.3 million people die from indoor air pollution. About 107,000 people die from asbestos poisoning each year, and about 654,000 people die from lead poisoning in 2010.
　　 The report also pointed out that since the First Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1995, 606,000 people have disappeared due to meteorological disasters, and 842,000 people die each year from diarrhoeal diseases caused by water pollution.
　　The report also shows that among the deaths in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific, the proportion of deaths due to environmental problems is relatively high, 28% and 27% respectively. This proportion is 23% and 22% in sub-Saharan Africa and the eastern Mediterranean, respectively, while the proportions in the Americas and Europe are relatively low.
[Climate change, desertification, land degradation, lack of water resources]
In order to take effective measures to deal with environmental degradation and alleviate the environmental threats facing humanity, the United Nations Environment Programme has conducted environmental assessments on six major regions in the world, including Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and found that the world is generally facing climate change, desertification, Land degradation, lack of water resources and other issues.

　　The data provided by the agency shows that since 1990, global carbon dioxide emissions have increased by nearly 50%, while the world’s forest area has decreased by 1.29 million square kilometers, exceeding the area of ​​South Africa.
　　Due to greenhouse gas emissions and reduced forest coverage, the average surface temperature of the world’s land and sea increased by 0.85 degrees Celsius from 1880 to 2012. Rising temperature has exacerbated the earth’s drought and desertification. The earth loses 23 hectares of potential agricultural land every minute, and 40% of the world’s population is affected by water scarcity.
　　 Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, said: “The depletion of the earth’s ecological resources and the increase in human pollution footprint have made us bear increasing costs in terms of health and well-being.”
　　 [The benefits of green production and lifestyle are obvious]
In order to build a healthy planet, the United Nations Environment Programme advocates that people remove or reduce the impact of harmful substances on the environment in their lives and work; use renewable energy to reduce the use of carbon fuels, thereby reducing carbon dioxide emissions; change lifestyles, in progress Necessary economic activities to reduce resource consumption, waste, pollution and damage to the environment.
　　 The report also said that the long-term benefits brought to mankind by adopting a green production and lifestyle are obvious.

The United Nations Environment Programme’s report stated that the phasing out of nearly 100 ozone-depleting substances means that by 2030, up to 2 million skin cancers and millions of cataracts will be avoided each year due to the restoration of the ozone layer; eliminating gasoline in the world The lead is expected to prevent 1 million premature deaths each year; if black carbon (produced by inadequate combustion of biomass and fossil fuels) and short-term pollutants such as methane are reduced, 2.4 million people can be avoided every year by 2030. Death by air pollution.

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