Sweden: in Umeå, environmental policy brings a breath of fresh air

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Air quality is a concrete part of the climate challenge.

Emitting less carbon and particles also allows you to breathe better.

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By: Frédéric Faux

This summer, the European Environment Agency published a ranking of cities according to the quality of the air they breathe.

Among the cities where we find the most fine particles, those which go deep into the lungs, we find localities in Poland or northern Italy.

And at the top of the ranking is Scandinavia.

We breathe best in Umeå, Sweden, thanks to a very broad environmental policy.

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