Air quality

We're sharing our major takeaways from Clean Air Fund's 2023 State of Global Air Quality Funding report, highlighting major trends in air quality funding around the globe.

Air pollution at schools and campuses negatively impacts student performance, development, and attendance in addition to harming teacher and staff health, making it vital to establish real-time air quality monitoring networks and improve air quality.

Sporting events can contribute to heightened air pollution levels, and poor air quality accounts for significant negative impacts on athlete and spectator health — making it of the utmost importance to mitigate air pollution levels at sporting events and prioritize exposure reduction.

Cross-stakeholder collaboration, like that with researchers and other data analysts under Air Quality Management 2.0, helps expand air quality data analysis capacities, collect more meaningful data insights, and drive action for cleaner air.

Air quality monitoring technology must be leveraged effectively in order to bring about meaningful data insights, and stakeholders such as communities and regulators doing so under Air Quality Management 2.0 can help establish more resilient air quality monitoring networks.

By working in partnership with other key stakeholders, regulators can leverage the use of both low-cost sensors and reference-grade monitoring equipment to turn air quality data into tangible action.

Community partnerships are a key component of Air Quality Management 2.0, as collaborative work with communities directly affected by air pollution helps to ensure effective and sustainable air quality improvement.

Air Quality Management 2.0 leverages collaborative partnerships between different stakeholder groups — including communities, regulators, analysts, and technologies — to more effectively and sustainably fight air pollution.

Many urban areas struggle with air pollution due to the number and density of air pollutant sources in cities. Fortunately, there are a number of ways to improve cities' air quality, from establishing stringent air quality targets to enacting clean air zones, and innovative projects like Breathe London and Breathe Cities are paving the way for this work.

The summer season can impact air quality due to its high temperatures and weather patterns, which can not only increase the concentration of harmful air pollutants such as ground-level ozone but also degrade air quality and threaten human health through air stagnation, heat waves, drought, and an increased risk of wildfire.