Grants

This grant enables Our Kids’ Climate to strategically scale effective grassroots clean air campaigns across its global network, embedding child-focused messaging into climate narratives and mobilising parent-led movements to drive policy change.

To tackle key scientific barriers in addressing black carbon, this project will produce a scientific review, evaluate emission inventories and analyse black carbon representation in climate models. The project aims to improve climate impact estimates and build scientific consensus to inform policymaking and international processes.

The project aims to support the integration of air quality and black carbon into the next generation of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC 3.0). The UNDP will engage with at least eight countries to integrate air quality and black carbon into their NDCs.

This project will produce a report making the case for action on tropospheric ozone to be launched at COP29. It will also deliver a longer-term roadmap for engagement beyond COP from 2025-2030

This project seeks to strengthen paediatric associations in South Africa, Nigeria and Nepal to highlight and address severe air pollution risks for babies and children, coordinated by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH).

To address Cameroon's severe air pollution challenges, this project provided training to journalists and air quality experts to communicate the health risks and opportunities of cleaner air, laying the foundation for a National Clean Air for Health Communications Strategy.

By engaging respiratory healthcare professionals and patient advocates, this project aims to raise awareness of air pollution’s impact on lung health and mobilise support for a life-course approach to lung disease prevention.

This project supported journalists to develop and deliver a practical training module and toolkit for health researchers to support engagement with media, including tips on media messaging and how to convey complex air pollution data in a compelling way.

Support for the WHO in organising this global conference aimed at securing strong commitments governments and city leaders to address air pollution. Including support enabling attendance from senior government representatives, researchers and campaigners from the Global South and for WHO to synthesise the latest evidence of health impacts of air pollution and benefits of air quality solutions.

SPARTAN calibrates satellite data used in health impact assessments and epidemiological studies informing PM2.5 exposure standards. This grant will improve SPARTAN’s capacity to generate tailored air quality data for low-capacity, data-poor settings.