{"id":421,"date":"2023-12-31T14:37:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T14:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/you-can-smell-petrol-in-the-air-uae-fossil-fuels-feed-toxic-pollution\/"},"modified":"2023-12-31T14:37:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T14:37:23","slug":"you-can-smell-petrol-in-the-air-uae-fossil-fuels-feed-toxic-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/you-can-smell-petrol-in-the-air-uae-fossil-fuels-feed-toxic-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYou Can Smell Petrol in the Air\u201d: UAE Fossil Fuels Feed Toxic Pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Sometimes the environment becomes dark and murky. During such times friends also fall sick.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 A migrant worker in Dubai, September 2023<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even as the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government works to burnish its image as a global climate leader as host of COP28, the United Nations climate conference underway in Dubai, the country\u2019s vast <a href=\"https:\/\/priceofoil.org\/content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/OCI-Planet-Wreckers-Report.pdf\">fossil fuel<\/a> production and use spew toxic pollutants into the air and contribute to climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The UAE has dangerously high air pollution levels, creating major health risks for its citizens and residents. According to the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/data.worldbank.org\/indicator\/EN.ATM.PM25.MC.M3?locations=AE\">World Bank data<\/a>,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/report\/2023\/12\/04\/you-can-smell-petrol-air\/uae-fossil-fuels-feed-toxic-pollution\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the environment becomes dark and murky. During such times friends also fall sick. \u2014 A migrant worker in Dubai, September 2023 Even as the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government works to burnish its image as a global climate leader as host of COP28, the United Nations climate conference underway in Dubai, the country\u2019s vast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oil-and-gas-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}