Grants

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.

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.

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

To 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.

To understand and raise awareness of air pollution and climate emissions in Providence, advance use of lower-cost air quality monitoring data, support improved policy and environmental initiatives and enable Brown University to support the City of Providence’s health, wellness and climate related goals.

To assess the real-world emissions of the vehicle fleet in Delhi, India, to inform policy actions that reduce transport emissions and help the city to meet its clean air action plan goals.

To support OpenAQ and its work to aggregate and make available the world’s air quality data.

To help stakeholders in low- and middle- income countries access the latest knowledge and expertise on air quality data (including but not limited to low-cost monitoring, data analysis, source characterisation and air quality management) which is currently poorly disseminated from Global North contexts.

Bring the relevant and latest knowledge on air quality data (including but not limited to low-cost monitoring, data analysis, source characterisation and air quality management) to the stakeholders in low- and middle-income countries which is currently poorly disseminated from Global North contexts.