Grants

Collecting and visualising data on air pollution is an essential first step for clean air campaigns. HabitatMap has revolutionised air quality data collection through their low-cost, wearable sensors. Campaigners worldwide use these sensors to advocate for environmental justice.

This grant enables CLF and the Providence Racial & Environmental Justice Committee to convene affected communities and equip them with the evidence needed to argue for legislative change. CLF and RJEC work with Brown University to convene a Resident Task Force, analyse sensor data on issues affecting them, and report their findings to lawmakers in Rhode Island and the White House.

This grant will replicate the Paris-based Microsensor Challenge event in Thailand to independently evaluate and compare low-cost air quality sensors. The results will provide users with an independent assessment of the suitability of the low-cost sensor market and its possible uses in the South-East Asian context

EDF will pilot and improve the Air Tracker tool, which enables communities and city officials to identify where local air pollution is coming from anywhere in a city at any time. The tool will be developed so it can be made available to any city worldwide and piloted in Rio De Janeiro and São Paulo by supporting local policy and enforcement.

The Afri-SET centre promotes widespread and responsible uptake of low-cost air quality sensors in West Africa. This will help increase air quality monitoring capacity and directly supporting effective health and environmental policy-making in the region.

This grant support WRI’s CanAIRy Alert programme to launch and run an air pollution forecast tool and pollution origin insights tool. This grant will help develop these further and enable greater usability by the testbed cities, and also enable wider knowledge-sharing between other global south cities.

World Athletics plans to leverage marathon events to help engage local communities, recreational runners and city governments on the topic of air quality. Air quality monitoring and engagement campaigns in the lead up and during city marathon events will be used to catalyse raised awareness and city commitment.

Support a global network of advanced PM2.5 monitoring sites that improves the quality of global air quality data resources (e.g. global health impact assessments) by improving satellite data and global-scale air quality models. This grant will maintain operations of the network, sustain and enhance both global- and local-scale applications of the data, and diversify SPARTAN’s funding base.

To contribute to the Government of India's Principal Scientific Advisor’s vision to develop a scale-enabling international Centre of Excellence (CoE) that can translate promising sustainable technologies and business models, into day-to-day products and services, that are used and accessed by millions, globally.

Enabling OpenAQ's platform to serve as the most useful and accessible air quality data platform in the world due to such qualities as being freely available; providing the greatest geographical coverage; providing centralised and directly comparable data; providing real-time data and historical data not typically saved on other platforms; and providing tools that allow stakeholders with varying technical competencies to use the OpenAQ platform to produce the evidence needed to demand clean air action.