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Thailand faces persistent air pollution stemming from agricultural burning, industrial emissions, and transportation. [3] Thailand's national standards for PM2.5 air quality were revised in 2022 and 2023, to adopt the World Health Organization (WHO) Interim Target 3 (IT-3) of 37.5 μg/m 3 and 15 μg/m 3 for 24 hour and annual measures, respectively.
Thailand's national air quality standards are weak when compared to WHO recommendations. [45] In the first six months of 2017, Greenpeace Thailand monitored PM2.5 in 14 provinces, as they have done since 2015, and found that every station recorded levels higher than the WHO recommendation of less than 10 milligrams per cubic meter of air.
Air pollution can affect nearly every organ and system of the body, negatively affecting nature and humans alike. Air pollution is a particularly big problem in emerging and developing countries, where global environmental standards often cannot be met. The data in this list refers only to outdoor air quality and not indoor air quality, which ...
The January 2024 version of the WHO database contains results of ambient (outdoor) air pollution monitoring from almost 5,390 towns and cities in 63 countries. Air quality in the database is represented by the annual mean concentration of particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5, i.e. particles smaller than 10 or 2.5 micrometers, respectively). [1 ...
The environmental areas where Thailand performs worst (i.e., highest-ranking) are air quality (167), environmental effects of the agricultural industry (106), and the climate and energy sector (93), the later mainly because of a high CO 2 emission per kWh produced.
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January 31 - Prime-minister Prayut demands action to improve the worsening quality of Bangkok's air. [13] This comes as the air quality of Bangkok and Pattaya reaches unhealthy conditions, with all schools in Bangkok being closed down. [14] [15] Aerial view of wildfires in Thailand's north
Traffic is one of the sources of air pollution in Bangkok, which reached serious levels in the 1990s. Efforts to improve air quality by improving fuel quality and enforcing emission standards, among others, have had some effect: atmospheric particulate matter levels dropped from 81 micrograms per cubic metre in 1997 to 43 in 2007. [15]