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The Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles (PCFV) has been most successful in the global elimination of leaded petrol. In 2002, when the PCFV was formed, 82 countries were still using leaded petrol. Today only ONE country remains and plans are underway to also eliminate leaded petrol in this country. 

Leaded petrol poisoning has been one of the world’s most serious environmental health problems, responsible for 90 per cent or more of human lead exposure. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) commissioned a study (Hatfield, Journal of Environmental Health, 2011) which estimated the benefits of the global elimination of leaded petrol at over 1.2 million premature deaths avoided per year, of which 125,000 would be children. The overall global benefit of eliminating leaded petrol adds up to US $2.45 trillion per year.

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