PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION FUNDING FOR CLEAN AIR - ADVANCING CLIMATE ACTION, HEALTH AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

A major barrier to progress on air pollution in many contexts is the lack of solid local data and analysis of air-pollution levels, including the sources of emissions and the localised health impacts of dirty air. [...] This is because the factories, houses and vehicles that emit harmful air pollutants also pump greenhouse gases into the air – and the damaging impacts of dirty air and climate change are felt most keenly by the poorest and most vulnerable in society. [...] “As part of our mission we want to make sure Air pollution in London is constantly higher than that everyone can live in a place that is free from the WHO’s recommended limits, and Lambeth and air pollution and the poor health that it causes,” Southwark have some of the worst levels in the explains Matt Towner, Programme Director of the city. [...] BOX 5: PROJECT TYPES REQUIRED FOR EFFECTIVE ACTION ON AIR POLLUTION (AS IDENTIFIED IN OUR ANALYSIS) • Data: to improve the quality, quantity or transparency of, or access to, information • Impacts and research: to increase research into and enhance understanding of the impacts of air pollution on health, the environment and the economy • Communications and awareness: to raise awareness of air poll. [...] WORST IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE, IS MEAGRE COMPARED Nonetheless, philanthropic funding towards cleaning up the air and protecting TO THE VAST SIZE OF THE people’s health, as well as mitigating the worst impacts of climate change, is CHALLENGE meagre compared to the vast size of the challenge.