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The formation of the left, has filed separate motions in the City and the Regional Assembly, calls for the creation of a table for air quality improvements in the atmospheric monitoring network, plans to reduce emissions and improvements in public transport that encourage use against private vehicles, among other measures.
Cartagena, May 8, 2005 - Given the serious data provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) air quality in the city of Cartagena, ratified by reports of Ecologists in Action, United Left-Greens today called through a motion by Councillor Mary Rose Matthew in the City and the Regional Deputy Jose Antonio Pujante in the Assembly, both institutions urgently take measures to correct the situation.
Such measures are, at the municipal level, the creation of a table by the air quality and environmental pollution (consisting of environmental groups, employers, neighbors, members of trade unions and political forces represented municipal).
Mesa would have among its objectives improved ciudanía information on levels of air quality, improved network-currently quite poor-atmospheric monitoring, and address the reduction of pollutant emissions, both diffuse pollution (traffic) as industrial.
Also, the formation of the left has requested the establishment of a plan to improve public transportation that encourages use among citizens and avoid private vehicles.
Plan that provides even, for exceeding the limits set by the WHO, radical measures restricting traffic.
In this regard, it has also requested that the replacement of current vehicles is undertaken by employing other clean energy, in which replacement should work the Public Transport Authority, which currently only benefits the municipality of Murcia.
He also requested that the City Council urge the autonomous region, and especially to the Directorate General of Environment to undertake the measurement and disclosure to the public of the levels of presence of contaminant particles in the atmosphere, since at present there discloses such information and that the Department improve coordination coordination and diligence in the inspection and environmental monitoring.
Finally, the Autonomous Region undertake actions to address the industries technological improvements that reduce the emission of particulate pollutants.
The World Health Organization has announced, in a report on air quality in 1,600 cities around the world, that levels of PM2.5 particles, the most dangerous for its size, which makes go directly to the lungs is 14 micrograms per cubic meter of air, when it is permissible only 10 micrograms.
Curiosmente, the Autonomous Community, contrary to the provisions cited by the World Health Organization estimates the figure at 20 micrograms admissible.
These particles are constituted by dust, ashes, soot, metal particles, cement and pollen, mainly.
Such particles are the cause, especially through heart attacks and strokes, seven million deaths annually worldwide.
Or what is the same, one in eight deaths is caused by air pollution.
In the Region of Murcia, in 2013, was the cause of 16,000 deaths, according to the data of Ecologists in Action.
Source: IU-verdes Cartagena
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