{"id":1438,"date":"2016-10-30T08:13:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T08:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/europavarietas.org\/csdp_new\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2023-09-05T08:28:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T08:28:20","slug":"dirty-diesel-how-switzerland-pollutes-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/europavarietas.org\/csdp_new\/index.php\/2016\/10\/30\/dirty-diesel-how-switzerland-pollutes-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirty Diesel : How a Geneva based Swiss giant pollutes Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1438\" class=\"elementor elementor-1438\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-f16aed6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"f16aed6\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3d44cad\" data-id=\"3d44cad\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-07933f2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"07933f2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>More than 12,000 people have already signed a petition asking the Geneva-based giant Trafigura to sell only gasoline and diesel that comply with European standards around the world.<br \/>The Swiss trader business model of producing and selling highly polluting high sulfur fuels in Africa has also been politically critical. In Ghana, Nigeria, Mali, C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire and Senegal, the responsible authorities and members of the government have had to answer many questions and criticisms about the health consequences of poor sulfur standards and poor quality fuels.\u00a0<\/p><p>Swiss commodity trading companies take advantage of weak fuel standards in Africa to produce, deliver and sell diesel and gasoline, which is damaging to people\u2019s health. Their business model relies on an illegitimate strategy of deliberately lowering the quality of fuels in order to increase their profits. Using a common industry practice called blending, trading companies mix cheap but toxic intermediate petroleum products to make what the industry calls \u201cAfrican Quality\u201d fuels. These intermediate products contain high levels of sulphur as well as other toxic substances such as benzene and aromatics.<\/p><p>By selling such fuels at the pump in Africa, the traders increase outdoor air pollution, causing respiratory disease and premature death. This affects West Africa, in particular, because this is the region where the authorised levels of sulphur in fuels remain very high. West Africa does not have the re ning capacity to produce enough gasoline and diesel for its own consumption, and so it must import the majority of its fuels from Europe and the US, where fuel standards are strict, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europavarietas.org\/files\/2016_DirtyDiesel_A-Public-Eye-Investigation_final.pdf\">Public Eye`s investigation September 2016<\/a> analyse writes.<\/p><p>To draw attention to this swiss illegal traffic, thanks to Public Eye&#8217;s &#8220;Return to sender&#8221; action, the container Irene Rainbow, with on board a container marked &#8220;Return to sender&#8221; &#8220;, Filled with polluted air from the Ghanaian capital traveled 7,000 kilometers separating Accra from the port of Anvers and was then transported to Geneva, where it was handed to Trafigura.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 12,000 people have already signed a petition asking the Geneva-based giant Trafigura to sell only gasoline and diesel that comply with European standards around the world. 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