UN warns climate-driven fires and heatwaves undo air-quality gains
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Wildfires and heatwaves intensified by climate change are hampering global air-quality improvements, increasing smoke exposure and ground-level ozone with health risks, and creating a climate–air-quality feedback loop that requires integrated reductions in greenhouse gases and pollutant emissions.
- Heatwaves and wildfires are setting back air quality improvements, UN finds The Guardian
- WMO Air Quality and Climate Bulletin No. 6 - September 2026 World Meteorological Organization WMO
- Wildfires, heat waves threaten to undermine air quality, UN weather agency says reuters.com
- As Fires Increase, It Will Be Harder To Meet WHO Clean Air Standards Health Policy Watch
- Almost 100,000 deaths a year: the global health consequences of wildfires revealed 1News.az
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