Clean air is not a luxury; it is a human right and an asset. Looking forward to working with this inspiring group to bring back blue skies globally. Helen Clark Soumya Swaminathan Jane Burston Naoko Ishii Junaid Kamal Ahmad #OurCommonAir

📽️Watch video: bit.ly/OurCommonAir

The 'Our Common Air' Commission says that airborne toxins are currently a threat to our climate, health, and economies, but that the issue is not yet getting the attention it deserves. Proud to be part of the Commission. euronews.com/business/2024/…

⁦.⁦Jeremy Paxman⁩ delivers ‘Parky Charter’ to No 10:

1. swift access to NHS specialists
2. materials to increase awareness
3. automatic entitlement to benefits
4. regular access to a Parkinson’s nurse
5. increase research funding for a cure
⁦ theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

ourcommonair.org/clean-air-a-ca… We have two challenges that can be tackled at once. Clean air and a safer climate go hand in hand, and we can go on a path that brings immediate health benefits, reducing millions of premature deaths each year, providing cleaner, cheaper, more convenient…

Why I am excited:
1. Paradigm shift: treating clean air as an asset;
2. More $: including clean air outcomes into infrastructure, climate and development finance;
3. Focus on short-lived climate pollutants: scale up solutions that are known, doable & come with multiple benefits.

Clean air is key to sustainable development and economic growth, yet falls through the cracks of development finance. @OurCommonAir’s recommendations provide governments and international finance institutions with practical ways to accelerate collective clean air action

Delighted to be part of @OurCommonAir - an independent commission bringing together leading thinkers to explore how best to fill the gaps in funding, evidence and accountability and advance progress on air pollution 👉 ourcommonair.org

In #5 of Zag’s Mobility Leaders: Women Making Moves series, the FIA Foundation’s Sheila Watson - named one of the 40 most influential women in transport by the German government - reveals how constantly garnering knowledge helped her reach the top

Read more: zagdaily.com/featured/from-…

3 months into 2024 and its fantastic to see political momentum for clean air growing. From stricter US air quality standards to a UN resolution on #AirPollution , read the first of my quarterly updates for highlights and insights on recent developments ⬇️ bit.ly/3Vrx2MS

The simple act of breathing kills 7 MILLION people a year. Almost all these deaths are attributable to noncommunicable diseases, including heart disease. Join Elvis Ndikum, member of our #AirPollution Expert Group, for tomorrow's NCD Hard Talk: bit.ly/3TpVVG5

Some good news to take us into the weekend:

- roadside NO2 pollution in London fell by 49% from 2016 to 2023
- over this period London’s population rose by more than 1 million
- levels were lower last year even than 2020, when there were covid lockdowns
theguardian.com/environment/20…

What are non-CO2 #pollutants , also called superpollutants? 🤔
Get some answers with Duke Environment Climate & Clean Air Coalition on the first episode of Action for Climate and #CleanAir 🌍

📺 Watch more on We Don't Have Time: app.wedonthavetime.org/posts/3e1062ff…

#ATACH Global meeting:🖍️Action on Climate Change and Health! Tomorrow in Madrid 🇪🇸 co-organized by Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Ministerio de Sanidad AECID World Health Organization (WHO) big thanks to all! 🙏UN Climate Change COP28 UAE COP27 COP26 COP29 AZ Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

'The huge cost of air pollution is no longer one we can afford'

With voters in 80 countries set to choose their next government in 2024, it's a critical time to demand accountability from world leaders. Great piece by Helen Clark 👉 bit.ly/48z7LDa Devex

Happy to join Inger Andersen Martina Otto Jane Burston and other leaders at this critical panel about how to fight #AirPollution and #climatechange at #UNEA6 Nairobi.

Excited to attend my first ever UN Environment Assembly.

Looking forward to speak about what ‘one thing’ could help get us back on track to meet environmental goals.

And hoping to see the air quality resolution pass on Thurs.
Climate & Clean Air Coalition #UNEA6