Energy Race.. Does East Asia become the most polluted place?

Energy prices continue to fluctuate over the past period, especially as their prices rise in conjunction with the U.S. banking crisis and rising debt, as well as the reopening of countries in the world following the coronavirus pandemic.

New international statistics have reported the superiority of the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and Africa over China and Europe in reliance on clean energy globally until 2050, reducing unclean energy.

The United States and China have been the major source of pollution over the past century, causing dangerous carbon emissions on the planet, owing to significant industrial development and the use of unclean energy, but they have begun using clean energy over the past period to cope with natural disasters.

Emerging markets in South Asia, Southeast Asia and Africa currently account for less than 20% of energy use and emissions worldwide.

Nevertheless, they received the least international funding, in order to maintain clean energy use.

About 99.82% of the land area is exposed to levels of suspended particles with a diameter of 2.5 millimetres (PM2.5) – tiny physical particles in the air that scientists have linked to lung cancer and heart disease – above the WHO-recommended safe limit, according to a peer-reviewed study published in Lancet Planetary Health.

 The study says only 0.001% of the world’s population breathes healthy air.

The study by scientists in Australia and China found that globally more than 70% of days in 2019 contained concentrations of “PM2.5” particles exceeding 15 micrograms of gas pollutants per cubic meter, the daily limit recommended by the World Health Organization.

Air quality is of great concern in regions such as South and East Asia, where “PM2.5” concentrations were higher than 15 micrograms in more than 90% of days.