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Sarajevo tops world's most polluted cities list
euronews (in English)
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21/12/2023
Air quality in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina is so bad some people are wearing masks.
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Bosnia's capital Sarajevo has been intermittently engulfed in a toxic haze since the start of
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December. Its air quality is so bad it has ranked top on a list of the world's most polluted
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cities for two days in a row. The Swiss air technology company IQ Air compiles a real-time
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list of city air quality, rating from good to hazardous. On Wednesday, it put Sarajevo's
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air quality in the "very unhealthy" category. It's not a new problem. There have been protests
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by locals dating back to 2020. At the time, experts said air pollution in the Balkans
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was due, in part, to the use of coal-fuelled power plants and old cars. Since then, the
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Sarajevo authorities have pledged to make the city carbon-free by 2035. But a cost-of-living
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crisis has forced people to rely on cheaper, dirtier fuels to heat their homes, and there's
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just no money to buy new cars. Many locals feel the need to wear masks when the pollution
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gets bad.
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"I think masks are not necessary. The most dangerous part of air pollution is the so-called
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fine dust, PM2.5 and PM1. Every mask that enters the airway barrier passes through without
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a mask. We had and we don't have masks."
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Sarajevo has to do something, and the city has been included among a hundred others the
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European Union is helping to reach net zero emissions. It's currently developing action
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and investment plans for climate neutrality across all sectors.
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