With a focus on breaking down barriers to federal funding, the program ensures that underserved and marginalized communities can access resources to address pressing environmental and climate injustices, including air quality monitoring. Learn more!
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.
Vehicle emissions significantly contribute to air pollution levels and emit a variety of pollutants known to be harmful to both human and environmental health. By implementing initiatives such as low-emission zones and encouraging the use of alternative forms of transport, we can reduce traffic-related air pollution.
While mining activities contribute significantly to air pollution levels, coupling real-time air quality monitoring data with more environmentally sustainable practices can help to reduce mining's impacts on both mining workers and surrounding communities.
India, one of the world’s fastest growing major economies, has its own Silicon Valley in the city of Bengaluru. Home to information technology companies and multinationals such as Google, Apple, Intel, IBM, Cisco and Adobe, the city provides careers for over a third of India’s 2.5 million IT professionals.
By the end of summer, 100 air quality monitors will be installed throughout Richmond and San Pablo.It’s a stark contrast to the three state-run air monitors that currently serve the area, providing average air quality estimates for the region.
Human health in buildings: Improving building efficiency to meet climate goals is vital, but human health — mental, emotional and physical — must also be part of planning structures and urban environments.
Air pollution is a well-known problem that leads to a drastic reduction of quality of life. It does not cause only chronic diseases: according to the recent UN report, air pollution is a cause of between six and seven million premature deaths and an estimated US$5 trillion in welfare losses each year.
On a sunny day a week ago, representatives from government agencies, universities, industry and environmental nonprofits gathered at the Oakland Convention Center to talk about low-cost air quality sensors.
Improving air quality is a major concern for the City of Paris. Mayor Anne Hidalgo and her team have made it a priority since the beginning of their term in 2014. The industrial sector and the research realm are also highly engaged on this issue, helping to develop relevant solutions.
A new UN Rideshare mobile application, brainchild of the Bangkok-based UN Office of Information and Communication Technology, will be launched and demonstrated during Clean Air Week, which will take place in Bangkok from 19–23 March.
Berkeley-based entrepreneurs Vivienne Ming, Andy Schmeder and David Lu discussed startup culture and the stories behind each of their innovations in a panel hosted by the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce, or BCC, on Thursday evening.
Air quality is a major public health issue. According to a report published in the peer-reviewed general medical journal The Lancet on 20 October, polluted air is the cause of 6.5 million deaths worldwide annually.