Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Top stories
  • Health
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Tech
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Weird
  • 1-1-2
Image
Vondelpark
Nature
Amsterdam
air quality
Vondelpark
World Health Organization
WHO
nitrogen dioxide
particulate matter
Amsterdam in figures
Friday, 24 November 2017 - 12:50
Share this:
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • linkedin
  • whatsapp
  • reddit

Vondelpark only Amsterdam area that meets WHO clean air standards

Vondelpark is the only place in Amsterdam that meets the strict air quality standards of the World Health Organization, according to the city's annual publication Amsterdam in figures 2017. Air quality in the rest of the city is improving, but the air still contains too much particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide, RTL Nieuws reports.

Air quality was measured in ten spots throughout the Dutch capital for this publication. In the area of particulate matter, air quality in Amsterdam does meet the European standards, which are less stringent than those of the WHO.

The city made considerable improvements when it comes to nitrogen dioxide in the air over the past years, the municipality says in the figures. Over the past decade, the nitrogen dioxide concentration in Amsterdam dropped from 59 micrograms per cubic meter to 42 micrograms.

The publication also revealed that Amsterdam's population grew by 10 thousand inhabitants to 844,952 this year. Many families with young children left the Dutch capital and moved to Amstelveen, Almere and Haarlem in particular. The number of students that came to Amsterdam decreased for the third year in a row.

Amsterdam is also expecting to break its population record - 872 thousand residents in 1959 - in 2019.

Follow us:

Latest stories

  • Teens could get 20 months for shooting 17-year-old in face with sawed-off shotgun
  • Dutch meteorologists say Musk's Starlink network disrupts weather forecasting
  • Money woes mean solar car firm Lightyear’s 600 workers expected to lose jobs
  • Court bans climate activist from attending protest on Hague highway
  • Sharp increase in drugs seized in the post last year
  • Dutch Grand Prix received €1.8 million in Covid support despite no-subsidy claims

Top stories

  • Philips to slash over a thousand jobs in new reorganization: Report
  • Netherlands heading for "socially disruptive" asylum crisis, involved authorities warn
  • Climate activists released from custody; Banned from Hague highway for months
  • Alfred Schreuder fired as Ajax manager
  • English language books driving increase in Dutch sales; Audiobooks more popular
  • Housing construction will miss 2023 target by 30 percent

© 2012-2023, NL Times, All rights reserved.

Footer menu

  • Privacy
  • Contact
  • Partner content