Dr Alice Kaudia, the former Environment Secretary at the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources in Kenya says policies are not translating into action. why?
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Cities in Africa are fast-growing. Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to have 13 megacities by 2100. A 2021 UN Environment report on Air Pollution and Development in Africa shows that outdoor air pollution was responsible for an estimated nearly 400,000 deaths across Africa in 2019.
Economically, countries like Ethiopia, Ghana, and Rwanda annually are recurring losses of between 0.08 and 0.3 percent of the GDP. Sucking in dirty air is the leading cause of sick and unproductive workers.
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In 2019 Ethiopia lost approximately $2.71billion, Ghana $1.38b, and Rwanda $308 million in output due to air pollution-related premature death.
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