Outdoor air pollution comes from multiple sources including industry, transportation, agriculture, waste management, and households. It poses major health risks, causing around 7 million premature deaths per year due to diseases like pneumonia, stroke, heart disease, and lung cancer. Certain groups are more impacted by air pollution, including children, women, and outdoor workers. Solutions to reduce air pollution involve investing in clean energy, improving waste management, reducing agricultural waste burning, making more sustainable cities, and providing access to clean cooking and heating alternatives through public transportation. Air pollution is a global problem that requires international cooperation.

1. Air Pollution

2. Outdoor air pollution affects urban
and rural areas and is caused by
multiple factors

3. What are the sources of air pollution?
Industry and energy supply

4. Transport

5. Agriculture

6. Waste management

7. Household
energy

8. Dust

9. What is the risk?
Air pollution is a major
environmental risk to health
Every year around 7 million deaths
are due to exposure from both
outdoor and household air pollution

10. 7 million people die prematurely
every year from air pollution
•21% due to pneumonia
•20% from stroke
•34% from ischemic heart disease
•19% from chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease (COPD)
•7% from lung cancer

11. Who is more impacted by air pollution?

12. Children
Pneumonia is the leading cause of death in
children under five years of age.

13. Women working in smoky kitchens are
exposed to high levels of household air
pollution
Women

14. Outdoor workers
People who work outdoors such as street vendors and
traffic officers are affected by pollution

15. SOLUTIONS
How to reduce air pollution

16. Invest in energy-efficient
power generation

17. Waste management

18. Reduce agricultural waste incineration,
forest fires and certain agro-forestry
activities

19. Make greener and more compact cities with
energy-efficient buildings

20. Provide universal access to clean
affordable fuels and technologies for
cooking, heating and lighting

21. Build safe and affordable public
transport systems and pedestrian
and cycle-friendly networks

22. Countries cannot tackle air pollution alone
It is a global challenge we must all combat
together