MOROCCO: Air pollution costs €1 billion and 5,000 deaths each year
A report by the Moroccan Network for the Defense of the Right to Health and the Right to Life published on World Health Day indicates that air pollution caused mainly by coal combustion impacts the health and economy of the Cherifian Kingdom with an estimated annual toll of 5,000 deaths and €1 billion (11 billion Moroccan dirhams). However, investments in clean energy could help limit the effects of climate change in Morocco.
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