According to the World Health Organization, 93 per cent of children under the age of 15 breathe air so polluted that it puts their health and development in danger.
Children who grow up in areas with high pollution levels are likely to have smaller lung capacity than those living with cleaner air, while the British Heart Foundation estimates that air pollution is responsible for up to 36,000 deaths in the UK each year.
Most recently, nine-year-old Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, who lived near the South Circular Road in Lewisham, south-east London, became the first person in the UK to have air pollution listed as cause of death at last year’s inquest after she died in 2013.
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