Air pollution is a multifaceted problem – representing the world’s leading environmental risk to 
health and costing the globe an estimated $8.1 trillion in 2019 , 6.1 percent of global gross domestic product (GDP).
Air pollution is also deadly, causing or contributing to heart attacks, strokes, lung cancer, and respiratory diseases and killing an estimated seven million people every year – with about 95 percent of these deaths occurring in low- and middle- income countries. COVID-19 is only making matters worse, with research finding links between air pollution and COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths.
Olympic-sized swimming pools has been treated and reused for industrial use by a paper mill and a local refinery every day since 2001.
water crisis, the relentless increase in the movement of people around the world requires a considered response to turn crisis into opportunity.
population approximately (51%) had access to the internet compared with just 30% in Western and Central Africa. With the strict lockdown implemented during the pandemic, many services were only available to people across the region through the internet. 
Netherlands for the World Bank 
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