How can we contribute to improving air quality in the region

Do you know what you are breathing? The majority of the population lives in the belief that air pollution is mostly caused by large industrial enterprises, but the first place in polluting the air we breathe belongs to road transport, which even surpasses energy (in the case of nitrogen oxides NO_x). Only then does industry or energy follow. Air quality is extremely important for our health. She also started the topic of air quality and what we ourselves can do to improve it with Jana Paluchová, head of the LIFE department from the Slovak Environment Agency, in the Good Council. According to a European Commission survey in 2022 aimed at obtaining opinions on the change in air quality over the last ten years, as many as 43 % respondents in Slovakia think that the air quality in Slovakia has worsened during this period. And indeed, together with Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary, Slovakia belongs to the countries with the most polluted air in the European Union. However, we ourselves can do a lot to help correct this situation. And because the biggest source of air pollution is road traffic, this week Tatiana Šušková and Jana Paluchová from the Slovak Environmental Agency offer advice on how to contribute to better air quality through sustainable mobility.