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With our partners – AirQualityAsia, The Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society at Boston College, and with support from the Clean Air Fund – we set out to identify the most successful and practical actions that can improve health by reducing air pollution and impact climate change. Because very little analytical data is ...
Ella died at the age of nine in 2013. Ella is the first person in the world to have air pollution listed as a cause of death on her death certificate, after a UK coroner’s inquest concluded that illegal levels of air pollution from the traffic near her London home contributed significantly to her acute asthma.
The health impact of air pollution is devastating, with tiny, invisible particles of pollution infiltrating our lungs, bloodstream and bodies. These pollutants are responsible for about one-third of deaths from stroke, chronic respiratory disease and lung cancer, and one-quarter of deaths from heart attacks, the UN says.
Cities worldwide are increasingly taking action to counter air pollution. 50 cities participating in C40's Cities Clean Air Accelerator and 35 cities from C40’s Green and Healthy Streets Accelerator are committed to launching innovative strategies and bold initiatives to clean their air and protect the wellbeing of residents.
Around 4.2 million people die prematurely due to indoor air pollution, according to the World Health Organization. Indoor air pollution is a big problem in developing countries, where people often burn wood, coal, dung, or other solid fuels indoors for cooking and heating.
Clean Air Fund and Dalberg Advisors challenged this narrative by asking: how would solving air pollution benefit Indian businesses? Drawing upon big data analytics, a primary survey and existing literature, our report, Air pollution in India and the impact on business, illustrates how reducing air pollution will increase economic growth.
The World Economic Forum and the Clean Air Fund launched the first global private sector initiative to tackle air pollution at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26). The alliance of companies are committed to measuring air pollutants, championing change and using their assets innovatively to accelerate clean air solutions.
The International Day for Clean Air for blue skies has arrived at an important moment, taking place for the first time on 7 September 2020 as an annual event for at least the next ten years, to raise awareness, promote solutions and gain momentum for global action to combat air pollution. We must take the lessons learnt from the shutdowns to ...
Concerns were raised over the impact of air pollution on athlete performance, and a wave of restrictions on polluting activities were implemented while the city sat in the global spotlight. Before the Games , 300,000 high polluting vehicles were phased out, major construction activities were halted, and hundreds of factories and power plants ...
Almost always, solutions to air pollution require long term, locally-led efforts that navigate complex local political, social, and economic circumstances. Like many complex problems that require long term locally-led solutions, international funding support has flagged.