Grants

This Breathe Cities project targets to reduce air pollution in Warsaw by changing transport preferences among young people from “Generation Z”.

This project focuses on analysing the health effects of black carbon in Sweden and Denmark. The aim is to strengthen the evidence base on black carbon's health impacts, contributing to an updated WHO systematic review.

This grant aims to improve EU ecodesign regulations for solid fuel appliances used in residential heating, focusing on reducing black carbon and other harmful pollutants. A key outcome includes building a broad stakeholder coalition advocating for stricter Ecodesign standards.

The project seeks to develop and pilot a tool for modeling environmental, climate, health, socio-economic, and equity impacts in Polish communities based on policy implementation

The project engages networks of current and future health professionals to talk about the health impacts of air pollution, to prevent illness among vulnernable populations.

The project allowed the World Bank to extend the scope of their Country Climate and Development Report for Poland to include the air quality angle.

ECAC, in collaboration with Mazovia regional authorities, piloted a robust air quality policy and intervention assessment model in Mazovia. Deployment of the tool allows better targetting of policies, but also provided inputs to development of a unified national AQ monitor tool.

Smoglab, the main environmental news portal, generates media and social media coverage on air quality and sustainable mobility in Poland. In addition, Smoglab issues a regular "Clean Air Barometer" - tool allowing to track the progress of needed air-quality policies.

Lungs Europe will equip incoming MEPs with a solid understanding of the negative health outcomes attributed to air pollution, and encourage good environmental health policies during their five-year mandates.

The grant addresses air quality, climate, and economic challenges by promoting clean air technologies for the heating and transport sectors, piloting the "Cleantech for Europe" in Poland.