Smog in Poland to vanish ten years after new campaign: official
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
19.09.2018 13:16
A government minister has said that smog in Poland will disappear ten years after the launch of a new campaign to combat air pollution.
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"After these ten (years), smog should disappear completely,” Environment Minister Henryk Kowalczyk told Polish private broadcaster Radio Plus.
Poland has launched a Clean Air programme to combat smog.
According to a report by the World Health Organisation (WHO), 33 of Europe's 50 most polluted cities are in Poland. The WHO estimates that around 50,000 Poles die every year due to illness caused by air pollution.
A government report has found that airborne pollution killed 15,000 people in cities and another 4,000 in rural areas in Poland in 2016.
Stoves produce more than 50 percent of air pollution in Poland, while industry accounts for 17 percent of smog and traffic for 10 percent, according to the Polish Smog Alert organisation. Energy production and agriculture produce most of the rest.
After taking office in December, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki declared that tackling air pollution would be one of his conservative government’s priorities.
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Source: PAP