Publisher's Synopsis
Climate change is a globally recognised threat multiplier, but decades of intergovernmental negotiations have failed to curb toxic levels of fossil fuel energy-related air pollution which the World Health Organization (WHO) has identified as the world's largest, single environmental health risk. Ignoring the nexus between air pollution, lack of access to clean energy and climate adversities that extracts the harshest toll on those least resilient and most exposed to climate health risks represents a collective failure of the UN's ambitious, universally agreed upon 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda (SDA) which pledged 'to leave no one behind'. This book highlights the air pollution crisis that emanates from the heavy reliance on polluting forms of energy used by the poor and also the urbanisation of poverty in developing countries.
