Grants

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.

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.

To gather data on air pollution in the surrounding of 5 selected schools and kindergartens in the Masovian Voivodeship of Poland. Also to raise awareness as to the impacts of the air pollution on children; prepare anti-smog plans together with engaged communities, encourage local authorities to enact these plans and engage business to help local authorities in it.

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.

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.

The project helped assess the Breathe Warsaw Data Component, offered advisory consulting to the project, trained city representatives, low-cost sensors suppliers.

This grant will build demand for clean air and catalyse and connect a group of youth-led advocates for clean air in Cape Town, Accra, Lagos and during COP27. It will raise awareness of the problem of air pollution as a health and climate risk in African cities, the inadequate measurement in the target cities, and the potential for clean air access to support physical activity. It will also provide a proof of concept and learnings towards the widespread use of wearable monitoring to achieve campaigning and advocacy goals.