Grants

The SEI-Y team works with the corporate Alliance for Clean Air to provide technical support and strategic guidance on how companies can quantify and reduce their air pollutant emissions.

The IDB Research Department will produce two studies on the inequitable exposure of air pollution in Latin American cities, raising awareness and advocating for policy change during the WHO Conference and COP30 in Brazil.

HEAL will work toward EU policymakers increasingly prioritising clean air in health financing, driven by enhanced advocacy and expertise from health groups. This project aims to position clean air as a critical lever for advancing public health and climate goals.

This first-of-its-kind source-apportionment study in Accra aims to accurately identify pollution sources and their impact on local communities, enabling more effective policy decisions. Part of the Breathe Cities programme.

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.

This project tackles the issues faced by low-income and minority communities disproportionately affected by waste burning, where traditional air monitoring falls short. It aims to establish local air quality monitoring, replace polluting waste facilities with cleaner alternatives, and boost environmental advocacy through wearable sensors.

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.

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.

World Athletics plans to leverage marathon events to help engage local communities, recreational runners and city governments on the topic of air quality in Lagos, Nigeria and Warsaw, Poland. 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.

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.