Environmental Impact Of Air Pollution

One of the main pollution sources are the exhaust gas from the internal combustion engines, which provide up to 80% of the total consumed energy in the world. According to the Centre for Environmental Monitoring’s report, 70% of air contamination in Hanoi is caused by the endless streams of traffic. The process of fuel combustion is creating the polluting gas such as CO, CO2, SO2, NOx, Pb, CH4, HC. Specifically, the transportation activities contribute nearly 85% of carbon monoxide (CO), 95% of VOCs. In the period of 2016-2020, there have been 53 million motorcycles, 560,000 cars (vietnamnews’ report). There is an average of 19,000 new personal vehicles registered per month in the capital, according to Hanoi Traffic Police. Statistics from

Exposure to air pollution can cause various diseases; long time exposure to air pollutions causes respiratory disease, throat inflammation, cardiovascular disease, chest pain, and congestion; ambient particulate matter ranks fifth among risk factors for total deaths around the world, after high blood pressure, smoking, diabetes and high cholesterol (by VNE). Moreover, chemical and radioactive substances can cause cancers, even People with heart or lung diseases, older adults and children are most likely to be affected by particle pollution exposure (vietnamnews says). Contaminated air was responsible for one in ten deaths in Vietnam, the fourth highest rate in Southeast Asia, after Laos, Cambodia and Philippines, according to a new research paper published in medical journal The Lancet. Deaths attributable to dangerous air particles in the country had surge by 60 percent percent from over 26,000 in 1990 to nearly 43,000 in 2015, according to the study by the Health Effects Institute, a Boston research institute focused on the health impacts of air pollution, and the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle, the press added. In 2011, 419 people out of 100,000 people (4.2 percent) had pneumonia, while 350/100,000 people (3.5 percent) suffered from sore throat and acute tonsils, and 273/100,000 from bronchitis (vietnamnet reports). According to a research study in Hanoi, incomes are reduced 20% and health of citizen also by 20% in Hanoi due to air pollution. The survey was conducted in five typical areas: the ThuongDinh Industrial zone, PhapVan highway, DongXuan Market, KimLien apartment quarter and TayHo. More than 2,200 households with 10,100 members, 6,020 students, and 1,370 workers in those areas participated in the survey. Among 2,200 households, 73% have had illnesses due to air pollution. Research programme on diseases related to air pollution in the