2023-12-13 10:17:39
Par Dorian Girard
Published 3 hours ago, Updated 1 hour ago
Despite a 30% drop in ten years, air pollution in Paris remains particularly high. Delphotostock / stock.adobe.com
EXCLUSIVE – For each municipality of more than 50,000 inhabitants, Le Figaro calculated the evolution of the concentration in the atmosphere of four pollutants whose negative impact on health or the environment is recognized. Discover the cities where pollution has fallen the most in ten years.
On November 24, the French state was ordered to pay the sum of 10 million euros for not having sufficiently fought against air pollution. The Council of State noted shortcomings concerning the thresholds for certain pollutants dangerous to health. Despite everything, in France, the situation tends to improve. Pollution levels have fallen significantly in the space of ten years (-30% on average between 2011 and 2021). Following the confinements, in 2021, Santé Publique France estimated that “2300 deaths” had been avoided thanks to the “reduction in exposure to particlesas well as “1200 deaths […] in connection with a reduction in exposure to nitrogen dioxide, mainly linked to road traffic”.
In this context, based on an innovative methodology taking into account four pollutants whose negative impact on health or the environment is recognized, Le Figaro sought to find out which, among French cities with more than 50,000 inhabitants, were those whose air quality had improved the most in the space of ten years.
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