{"id":57665,"date":"2025-06-03T07:45:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T07:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/?p=57665"},"modified":"2025-06-04T11:38:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T11:38:30","slug":"report-unmasking-the-toll-of-fine-particle-pollution-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/publications\/57665\/report-unmasking-the-toll-of-fine-particle-pollution-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Unmasking the toll of fine particle pollution in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns has-action-yellow-background-color has-background is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"588\" height=\"840\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-africa-stateless\/2025\/05\/2c2c544c-greanpeace-africa-sa-air-pollution-report-cover.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-africa-stateless\/2025\/05\/2c2c544c-greanpeace-africa-sa-air-pollution-report-cover.png 588w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-africa-stateless\/2025\/05\/2c2c544c-greanpeace-africa-sa-air-pollution-report-cover-210x300.png 210w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-africa-stateless\/2025\/05\/2c2c544c-greanpeace-africa-sa-air-pollution-report-cover-238x340.png 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Greenpeace Africa SA Air Pollution Report<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-africa-stateless\/2025\/05\/9521879f-greanpeace-africa-sa-air-pollution-report_compressed.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DOWNLOAD HERE<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>In 2023, over&nbsp;<strong>42,000 people \u2014 including 1,300 children under five \u2014 lose their lives<\/strong>&nbsp;due to fine particle pollution (PM2.5) in South Africa. The economic cost? A staggering&nbsp;<strong>R960 billion<\/strong>, or&nbsp;<strong>14% of the country&#8217;s GDP<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Our latest report, produced in partnership with the <strong><mark style=\"background-color:#ffe100\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA)<\/mark><\/strong>, goes beyond the headlines to reveal the&nbsp;<strong>hidden health crisis and economic burden<\/strong>&nbsp;caused by toxic air \u2014 and who is responsible.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-africa-stateless\/2025\/05\/9521879f-greanpeace-africa-sa-air-pollution-report_compressed.pdf\">Download and read the full report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our latest report, produced in partnership with the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), goes beyond the headlines to reveal the\u00a0hidden health crisis and economic burden\u00a0caused by toxic air \u2014 and who is responsible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":57731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-africa-stateless\/2025\/06\/80c3d7e7-screenshot-2025-06-04-at-14.36.18.png","p4_og_image_id":"57731","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[136,46],"p4-page-type":[45],"class_list":["post-57665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-protecttheenvironment","tag-air-pollution","tag-greenpeaceafrica","p4-page-type-publications"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57734,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57665\/revisions\/57734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57665"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=57665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}