WHO / AIR POLLUTION TEDROS

Air pollution kills 7 million people each year. Around the world, 9 out of 10 people breathe air that has been polluted by traffic emissions, industry, agriculture and waste incineration, according to a new report by the World Health Organization. WHO

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:03:25
• Production Date: 30 October 2018
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: TEDROS GHEBREYESUS
• Corporate Name: WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - WHO
• Subject Topical: AIR POLLUTION
• MAMS Id: 2292897
• Parent Id: 2292897
• Alternate Title: unifeed181030b

Description

STORY: WHO / AIR POLLUTION TEDROS
TRT: 3:25
SOURCE: WHO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS

DATELINE: 30 OCTOBER 2018, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

Shotlist

1. Various shots, delegates in hallways of WHO HQ
2. Med shot, Tedros and Neira at a conference table
3. Cutaway, delegate
4. Pan left, meeting room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom, Ghebreyesus Director-General, WHO:
“Air pollution kills 7 million people each year. Around the world, 9 out of 10 people breathe air that has been polluted by traffic emissions, industry, agriculture and waste incineration. About 3 billion people continue to use smoky, polluting stoves and fuels inside their homes for cooking and heating. Our latest estimates are that up to one-third of deaths from heart attack, stroke, lung cancer and chronic respiratory diseases are due to air pollution.”
6. Cutaway, delegate
7. Wide shot, meeting
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom, Ghebreyesus Director-General, WHO:
“No one escapes, from the womb to the grave. Some of our children will not reach their full potential because of exposure to air pollution in the womb and in early life; some of our parents will die early because of exposure to it throughout their lives. And in many parts of the world, it’s getting worse.”
9. Cutaway, delegates
10. Wide shot, meeting
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom, Ghebreyesus Director-General, WHO:
“No person, group, city, country or region can solve the problem alone. We need strong commitments and action from everyone: governments, community leaders, mayors, civil society, the private sector, and individuals. We need all countries and cities to commit to meeting WHO standards for air quality in the next 12 years. We need to agree unequivocally on the need for a world free of air pollution.”
12. Zoom out, Queen Leticia of Spain arriving and shaking hands with Tedros
13. Pan left, Tedros and Queen Leticia walking
14. Wide shot, Queen Leticia posing with t-shirt
15. Various shots, Leticia and Tedros in meeting

Storyline

Opening the first Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health in Geneva today, the World Health Organization’s Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for a global action for “a world free of air pollution.”

As the world gets hotter and more crowded, our engines continue to pump out dirty emissions, and half the world has no access to clean fuels or technologies (e.g. stoves, lamps), the very air we breathe is growing dangerously polluted: nine out of ten people now breathe polluted air, which kills 7 million people every year. The health effects of air pollution are serious – one third of deaths from stroke, lung cancer and heart disease are due to air pollution.

SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Tedros Adhanom, Ghebreyesus Director-General, WHO:
“No one escapes, from the womb to the grave. Some of our children will not reach their full potential because of exposure to air pollution in the womb and in early life; some of our parents will die early because of exposure to it throughout their lives. And in many parts of the world, it’s getting worse.”

In order to raise awareness of this growing public health challenge and share information and tools on the health risks of air pollution and its interventions,
the WHO and partners have organized the first Global Conference on Air Pollution and Health, taking place in Geneva from 29 October to first November to rally the world towards major commitments to fight this problem.

In his opening speech, Dr Tedros said “no person, group, city, country or region can solve the problem alone. We need strong commitments and action from everyone: governments, community leaders, mayors, civil society, the private sector, and individuals. We need all countries and cities to commit to meeting WHO standards for air quality in the next 12 years. We need to agree unequivocally on the need for a world free of air pollution.”

The conference will showcase some of WHO’s work on air pollution, including the findings of its Global Platform on Air Quality and Health. This platform whose diverse membership includes researchers, civil society, UN agencies and other partner institutions reviews the data on air quality and health. The platform is working on techniques to more accurately attribute air pollution coming from different sources of pollution. It is also working on improving estimates of air quality by combining the data from various air quality monitoring networks, atmospheric modelling and satellite remote sensing.