They are all in the middle of the Po valley and this is not surprising. They are the Italians who entered the undeserving ranking of the ten most polluted cities in Europe. There are four Italians in the top ten: Cremona, Pavia, Brescia and Vicenza. Their air quality is described as “very poor”.
The ungrateful ranking was published byEuropean Environment Agency evaluating the average levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) between 2019 and 2020. The three cleanest European cities were Sweden’s Umeå, Tampere in Finland and Portugal’s Funchal, Ronaldo’s homeland on the island of Madeira.
Stockholm, Tallin Narva and Tatu, in Estonia, Bergen and Trondheim, in Norway and the Spanish Salamanca also did well with fine dust values of less than 5.
The three most polluted were Nowy Sacz, in Poland, Cremona and the Croatian Slavonski Brod. Among the worst are three other Polish cities, including Krakow, the Italian ones already mentioned and the Bulgarian Veliko.
323 European cities were analyzed and were classified taking the threshold of 10 micrograms of pm 2.5 per cubic meter of air. When the concentration is above 25 micrograms per cubic meter the European Union considers it dangerous. In Milan it is 20.13, in Rome 12.94.
The numbers become even more understandable and worrying if we count the victims of this pollution. According to the report, “although in the last ten years there has been a marked improvement in air quality in Europe, the latest annual assessment carried out by the AEA shows that in 2018 exposure to fine particulate matter caused approximately 417 thousand premature deaths in 41 European countries».
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