NEW DELHI : India is among seven countries that does not share air pollution data in a fully transparent manner despite it being termed as “the greatest environmental risk to health" by the World Health Organization (WHO), OpenAQ, a Washington-based international NGO said in a report on Thursday.The report highlighted that outdoor air pollution leads to an estimated 4.2 million deaths every year worldwide; more than Ebola, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined (2.7 million).
This information vacuum, the report said, is preventing people from demanding action from their governments to tackle the biggest environmental risk to health, and changing their behaviour.Over half of the world’s population has no access to official government.