{"id":7887,"date":"2026-03-09T10:26:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T10:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=7887"},"modified":"2026-03-09T10:26:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T10:26:26","slug":"ozone-pollution-kills-75000-europeans-a-year-and-costs-e80bn-so-why-is-methane-being-ignored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/03\/09\/ozone-pollution-kills-75000-europeans-a-year-and-costs-e80bn-so-why-is-methane-being-ignored\/","title":{"rendered":"Ozone pollution kills 75,000 Europeans a year, and costs \u20ac80bn. So why is methane being ignored?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ground-level ozone pollution caused an estimated 75,000 premature deaths in the European Union in 2022 and \u20ac80 billion in economic damage, severely impacting Mediterranean countries and reducing agricultural yields. Despite these severe health and financial impacts, methane, a primary precursor to ozone, remains largely ignored in current European Union air quality regulations. Experts are calling for more integrated climate and air quality policies to address methane emissions as a critical political choice to protect public health, farming livelihoods, and environmental resilience simultaneously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> February 16, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/euobserver.com\/202963\/ozone-pollution-kills-75000-europeans-a-year-and-costs-e80bn-so-why-is-methane-being-ignored\/\">euobserver.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ground-level ozone pollution caused an estimated 75,000 premature deaths in the European Union in 2022 and \u20ac80 billion in economic damage, severely impacting Mediterranean countries and reducing agricultural yields. Despite these severe health and financial impacts, methane, a primary precursor to ozone, remains largely ignored in current European Union air quality regulations. Experts are calling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":7889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8012,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7887\/revisions\/8012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}