Let’s start with the environmental situation in Philippines. I focused on Air Pollution only which consists of lots of sources. For example PM, SO2, NO2, CO and VOC as see in the table above.
Those interfere directly with oxygen uptake, causing poisoning at very high concentrations at low levels, it impacts the nervous system and causes direct damage to lung tissue and in high concentrations c
Air pollution Cost for road transportation is 3,067 won/TEU-km??
ONLY 200 won/TEU-km!!
What about CO2 Exhaustion?
85.9 g / ton km >35.6 g / ton km
It is necessary to reduce greenhouse gas exhaustion quantity due to Kyoto protocol.
Canal transportation exhausts much less gas compared to that of road transportation.
대기오염(Air pollution)
I. 대기오염의 개념
그리스의 철학자 Hippocrates(460 -377 B. C. )는 "대기는 인간생활의 근원이나 악역(惡疫)의 원천이 되기도 한다."고 했으며, 시이저 시대 로마에서는 "폐기물은 멀리 버려라, 그렇지 않으면 처벌한다."는 경고를 한 일도 있다고 한다.
미국의 Engineers Joint Council에서
pollution on land caused by ships
3.5%-4% of total green house gas emissions
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Climate change will seriously impact human health
by increasing the incidence of several diseases
Cardiovascular, cerebrovascular and respiratory diseases
Caused by heat waves and air pollution
Gastroenteritis and infectious diseases epidemics
Caused by water and food contamination as a consequence of floods, and disruption of clean water supplies and sewage treatment, after heavy rai