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Air Pollution and Human Health: the Case of the Western Balkans Air Pollution and Human Health: The Case of the Western Balkans May 2019 Acknowledgements COORDINATION Harald Egerer and Sonja Gebert (UN Environment). UN Environment gratefully acknowledges the contributions of many colleagues and experts, who dedicated their time and effort and provided invaluable advice throughout the preparation process. The work on this assessment have started at the first WHO Training Workshop on Air Quality and Health - Strengthening National Capacities in Assessing Health Risks of Air Pollution, organised by WHO Europe, through WHO European Centre for Environment and Health, with the support of WHO Country Office in Bosnia and Herzegovina and led by Dr Victor Olsavszky, in cooperation with UNECE, and supported by UN Environment. LEAD AUTHORS Maja Colovic Daul, air pollution expert Prof. Michal Kryzanowski, public health expert Olivera Kujundzic, air pollution expert REVIEWERS AND CONTRIBUTORS Dorota Iwona Jarosinska – World Health Organization ECEH; Pierpaolo Mudu – World Health Organization ECEH; Gjystina Fusha – National Environmental Agency of Albania; Laureta Dibra – Ministry of Energy of Albania; Aneta Stefanovska, Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning, North Macedonia; Aleksandra Krsteska Nestorovska MEIC – Macedonian Environmental Information Centre; Dzenita Halilovic, Gordana Djukanovic – Nature and Environment Protection Agency, Montenegro; Borko Bajic – Institute of Public Health of Montenegro; Mirjana Dimovska – National Institute of Public Health, North Macedonia; Milkica Grabez – Public Health Institute Republic of Srpska, BiH; Sabina Sahman-Salihbegovic – Ministry of Civil Affairs, BiH; Enis Krecnic and Enis Omerovic – Federal Hydrometeorological Institute FBiH; Aleksandar Macura – RES Foundation, Serbia; Dejan Lekic, Milenko Jovanovic, Lidija Maric – Serbian Environmental Protection Agency; Radmila Arandjelovic, Aleksandra Siljic-Tomic – UN Environment, Serbia; Ranka Radic – Hydrometeorological Institute of Republika Srpska, BiH; Disclaimer The development of this study has been funded by the Norwegian Government and supported by the United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment). The contents of this publication do not 2 necessarily reflect the views of the UN Environment, donors, contributory organizations or any governmental authority or institution which the authors or contributors are affiliated. 3 Table of Contents Acknowledgements 2 Disclaimer 2 Table of Contents 4 Executive summary 5 Abbreviations 8 1 Air quality in the Western Balkans 9 1.1 Air quality monitoring network in the Western Balkans 9 1.2 Status of air quality 11 1.3 Sources of air pollution in the Western Balkans 13 2 Methodology 15 3 Impacts of air pollution on human health in the selected cities of the Western Balkans region 17 3.1 Exposure to PM2.5 and specific-cause mortality 19 3.2 Comparison with national estimates 20 4 Conclusions and a way forward 22 References 24 Annex 26 4 Executive summary At the third session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA 3), held in Nairobi, Kenya, from 4-6 December 2017, delegates from around the world unanimously agreed that air pollution is the single greatest environmental threat to health, and one of the main avoidable causes of death and disease globally. Following the consensus reached on the resolution on Preventing and Reducing Air Pollution to Improve Air Quality Globally1, proposed at the UNEA 3, UN Environment has actively supported governments in preventing and reducing air pollution. Every year, around 6.5 million people across the globe die prematurely from exposure to outdoor and indoor air pollution. Nine out of ten people breathe outdoor air that is polluted beyond levels deemed acceptable under the World Health Organization’s Guidelines. Air pollution is considered a global public health emergency, and has an equivalent effect to tobacco use, putting everyone from unborn babies, to children walking to school, to women cooking over open fires at risk (UNEP, 2017). In 2015, the World Health Assembly adopted the resolution ‘Health and the environment: addressing the health impact of air pollution’. The air quality in many cities does not meet national or European Union (EU) air quality standards, or the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Air Quality Guidelines (AQG). The major sources of outdoor air pollution are fossil fuel emissions from coal burning for electricity and heat, transport, industrial furnaces, brick kilns, agriculture, domestic solid fuel heating and the unregulated burning of waste materials such as plastics and batteries in open pits and incinerators (Morman, 2013). Particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) affects people’s health more than any other air pollutant; levels of PM2.5 have remained largely constant despite efforts to reduce them (Sacks, 2011). The population of the Western Balkans region2 is exposed to some of the highest concentrations of air pollution in Europe. They are up to five times higher than the national and EU guideline levels, let alone the WHOS’s AQG. The health effects of air pollution are well documented in global toxicological, clinical and epidemiological research studies. The WHO’s AQG (Air Quality Guidelines, 2005) review the evidence about the health effects of particle pollution, ozone and nitrogen dioxide, and set limits for concentrations of pollutants in the air to reduce the harmful health effects of exposure. Recent WHO reviews confirm the Guidelines’ validity amid mounting evidence supporting the recommendations’ relevance over the last decade (WHO R. , 2013). Epidemiological studies and meta-analyses provide data on functional relationships between concentrations of air pollutants and increased health risks associated with exposure (WHO H. , 2013). Widely used health risk assessment methods provide assessments of the health impacts of pollution in populations for which pollution exposure estimates as well as national background health data are available (Health risk assessment of air pollution, 2016). The assessment report ‘Air Pollution and Human Health: The Case of the Western Balkans’, produced by the United Nations Environment Programme with support from the Government of Norway, provides an overview of air quality in the Western Balkans as well as an estimate of the health impacts of air pollution in the region, to elaborate a conceptual framework for the development of appropriate instruments to alleviate energy poverty, a major cause of air pollution in the region. The assessment report covers the following countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, 1 1 UNEP/EA.3/Res.8. 2 The Western Balkans is a political neologism that evolved in the early 1990s and refers to Albania and the territory of the former Yugoslavia (with the exclusion of Slovenia). The region of the Western Balkans, a designation used exclusively in Europe, roughly corresponds to the Dinaric Alps territory. 5 Montenegro and Serbia. When available, data from Kosovo3 was also analysed in this study. The focus is on populations of cities4 for which data from national air quality monitoring systems and health data and statistics are available. In addition, country-wide estimates based on a global analysis conducted by the WHO are presented. The annual concentrations of particulate matter (PM2.5) in all of the selected Western Balkan cities (with the exception of Vlorë, Albania) exceed the WHO’s AQG value of 10 μg/m3 (WHO, 2005). The majority of these cities (approx. 75 per cent) even exceed the less stringent European Union limit values of 25 μg/m3 (Air Quality Standards, n.d.). The average exposure indicator calculated by the European Environmental Agency (EEA) (EEA, 2018) denotes that out of 37 reporting European countries, only eight (five of which are countries in the Western Balkans region) exceed the recommended level of exposure to PM2.5 concentrations, which is set at 20 μg/m3.. The daily limit value of PM10 is exceeded between 120-180 days per year in Western Balkan cities, although national and EU legislation limit the number of exceedances to 35 days per year. These exceedances usually occur during the winter months. The main sources of particulate matter emissions are electricity generation from thermal power plants (mostly lignite-fired) and household heating. Only 12 per cent of the buildings in the Western Balkans are connected to district heating systems. Solid fuels (coal and firewood) are used for domestic heating by over 60 per cent of the population (Framework, 2017). The share of energy in the annual household consumption expenditure is substantial. The Western Balkans region suffers from high levels of energy poverty, preventing a smooth transition to more sustainable and more eco-friendly heating systems (Sandra Esser, 2018). The Western Balkans region included in this study have transposed EU legislation limiting the concentrations of air pollutants. The air quality is monitored in accordance with EU legislation and the collected data is reported to the European Environment Information and Observation Network (EIONET). The lack of financing to operate and maintain the air quality stations results in inconsistencies in monitoring and in data gaps5. To analyse the health impact of air pollution in the Western Balkans region, only air quality data collected on minimum 274 days per year were used6 to reduce the sampling bias when estimating the annual mean. 1 Air pollution contributes between 4 per cent and 19 per cent of total premature mortality in the selected cities and
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