Building global support for local action to clean the air.
Air pollution is one of the world’s largest - yet most ignored -global health threats. We aim to change that.
Through opening up networks, resources, and data, our goal is to help global and local air pollution organizations fill air quality action gaps.
Air pollution facts:
In 2021, 10 million people will die from exposure to poor air quality caused by fossil fuel combustion, twice the number that have died from COVID-19 during the entire pandemic.
Yet air pollution is not treated like a major global health issue. Efforts to combat it receive just 0.1% of total global philanthropic foundation funding (~45 million USD in 2020) and less than 1% of official development funding worldwide.
The funding that does exist is not equitably - and most effectively - distributed to the local organizations that can achieve the most long-term impact. Meanwhile, basic, inexpensive and obvious air pollution action gaps in data, activism, and policy are going unfilled.
The good news?
Air pollution is an entirely tractable issue. With even just a little more global attention and resources directed to local groups who can solve the problem, gigantic strides can be made.