Spectacular! NYC’s congestion pricing program reduced health-harming air pollution by more than 20% inside the affected zone. That is a huge benefit to everyone who lives or works in the zone. @docsforclimate.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social @climatemuseum.bsky.social @nyclimate.bsky.social

A first look into congestion pricing in the United States: PM2.5 impacts after six months of New York City cordon pricing - npj Clean Air

npj Clean Air - A first look into congestion pricing in the United States: PM2.5 impacts after six months of New York City cordon pricing

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“2024 saw record deaths from #AirPollution from wildfires driven by climate change, showing the urgency of curbing emissions to stop this insane death spiral. Action on super pollutants...is our emergency brake to decisively slow global warming.” @nina-ren.bsky.social ✍️🔽

Health Policy Watch - Global health news reporting@healthpolicywatch.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🔥The data is in — and it’s terrifying. The new @thelancet.com Countdown warns climate change is already killing millions each year — through heat, air pollution, wildfires, and infectious disease.🏭 ✍️ @stefananderson.bsky.social @cleanairfund.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social 📖⬇️ & 🙏🔁

Ahead of the UN General Assembly, @cleanairfund.bsky.social founder @janeburston.bsky.social calls on leaders to prioritize clean air: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Clean air must be made a global priority | Letter

Letter: Left unchecked, toxic air will keep shortening millions of lives and harming health, says Jane Burston

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Staggering figures in latest EPIC Air Quality report - how much #airpollution affects life expectancy. @christahasenkopf.bsky.social

Health Policy Watch - Global health news reporting@healthpolicywatch.bsky.social · last yr.

"A crisis in our health system that is entirely preventable" FOI requests by @mumsforlungs.bsky.social "revealed that nearly 114,000 children visited a London hospital with breathing difficulties, and over 25,000 of them were admitted for treatment." airqualitynews.com/health/a-cri...

‘A crisis in our health system that is entirely preventable’

Clean air campaign group Mums For Lungs have uncovered shocking statistics regarding the number of children admitted to hospital with breathing difficulties in London. The group submitted Freedom of I...

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🚨Health can no longer be sidelined. LAC health leaders urge world governments: Cut emissions! Deliver fair finance! Protect health systems! Lead with justice at #COP30! Common LAC Position on Climate and Health  shorturl.at/8UsCz  🩺🌎

EPA's plan to abandon all efforts to limit global warming endangers your health and the health of everyone you love. How the heck is that supposed to make America great? @mason4c.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

Today’s announcement by EPA puts your health in danger

The American Public Health Association strongly condemns today’s action by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin to eliminate the agency’s endangerment finding that greenhouse ...

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"Outdoor air quality was still the leading driver of classroom particle pollution, even with filters installed". Worrying results from the @samhe.bsky.social schools study. Reducing #AirPollution at source will always be key to healthier lives.

Closing classroom windows does not cut air pollution, study finds

Tests conducted at 500 UK sites show particle pollution exceeded health guidelines on 6% of school days

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The Trump admin plan to repeal the "endangerment" finding that underlies key climate regulations in the US is on the frontpage of today's NY Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal

Love to see this from Manchester Mayor and Massive Attack! A band always on the right side of history. Kudos @fossiltreaty.bsky.social ! 🐝

Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative@fossiltreaty.bsky.social · last yr.

🔥 HUGE NEWS! In a powerful convergence of music, activism, and leadership, the Mayor of Greater Manchester, @andyburnham.bsky.social, and the British trip hop collective Massive Attack signed a declaration and opened a Treaty banner on the rooftop on this #WorldEnvironmentDay2025.

Governments endorse @who.int's new global roadmap to 1/2 deaths attributed to poor #AirQuality by 2040 🎉 Progress on lung health & climate action at the event signal clean air's growing importance in global health decision making ✍️ @nina-ren.bsky.social #WHA78 www.cleanairfund.org/news-item/wh...

World Health Assembly approves roadmap to halve deaths from air pollution

Governments endorse the World Health Organization’s new global roadmap to cut deaths attributed to poor air quality by 50% by 2040.

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Why is there no health warning on a wood stove? Wood smoke contains most of the same carcinogens as tobacco smoke, including benzene and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Tobacco products have had health warning messages for years - it's time for stoves to have the same. #AirPollution #Health

‘Everyone is breathing this’: how just trying to stay warm is killing thousands a year in the world’s coldest capital 🇲🇳 www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

‘Everyone is breathing this’: how just trying to stay warm is killing thousands a year in the world’s coldest capital

In Ulaanbaatar, coal fires heat almost every home. But as extreme weather drives families off the Mongolian steppes into the city the air is becoming more deadly

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We can't buy clean air, so let's fight for it! @who.int’s Executive Board agreed to halve the number of deaths caused by #AirPollution by 2040 - let's help to make it a reality. #BreatheLife

President Petro 🇨🇴 recognizes #climatechange as a catastrophe. “If there’s one lesson from Covid19 it must be to prioritize prevention to protect health and healthcare.” Taking better care of the air we breathe must be part of health and climate action.

Rosamund Adoo Kissi-Debrah @ellarobertafdn.bsky.social rightly alongside world leaders and ministers to call for #CleanAir „To the politicians, not to act would be unforgivable.“ ❤️

🇪🇸 Secretary of State for Health Dr Javier Padilla says #AirQuality is the health challenge of this century, just as water quality was previously. #CleanAir4Health Great too to hear Spain strongly support @who.int @drmarianeira.bsky.social @drtedros.who.int

Inspiring @unicef.org youth Ambassador Francisco Vera calls on governments and cities to 🩵 Put Life First #CleanAir for kids - there’s no better investment. @pmnch.bsky.social @helenclarknz.bsky.social @ourkidsclimate.bsky.social @rcpch.bsky.social @cleanairfund.bsky.social

Parents & city mayors can be leading forces for bringing up #cleanair policies we all need➕ 🤝 Social justice 🫰 Lower bills 🏡 Better neighbourhoods. Here in Cartagena, GCHA's Exec. Dir. @jenimiller.bsky.social meeting with @metecoban92.bsky.social London Dep. Mayor & WarriorMums founder B. Khandari

Children are on the frontlines of fossil-fuel driven air pollution. 🔴 Over 90% breathe harmful air & nearly 2,000 children die daily from pollution-related diseases. We need urgent action for clean air & a transition to renewable energy. Share & stand up for #OurKidsAir ✊💚

The economic investment case is key, but the bottom line is that „lives and health of children is the biggest ‚bankable project’“ Spontaneous applause for @shwetanarayan30.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social so well said 👏👏👏

🇨🇴 Vice Minister of Environment emphasizing benefits for health in their climate commitments #NDC - and esp target to reduce deadly #BlackCarbon emissions 40% by 2030 Colombia‘s NDC will save 3600 lives by 2030 thanks to healthier air. @who.int @ccacoalition.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social

London’s Ultra Low Emissions Zone is 🌎-leading and delivering rapid results: Cutting NO2 emissions, reducing 1.1million hospital admissions, saving lives Incredible leadership @mayoroflondon.bsky.social @metecoban92.bsky.social #BreatheCities @cleanairfund.bsky.social @c40cities.bsky.social

World Bank‘s Benoit Bosquet calls for a decoupling of emissions from economic growth. This is exactly what 🇨🇳 has achieved in recent years. H/t Prof Hongbing Shen Vice Minister of Health, China @cleanairfund.bsky.social

⚠️ New #BreatheCities report shows the health and economic gains cities could achieve by following @who.int new air pollution Roadmap. By 2040, 60+ cities could collectively: ❤️ avoid 650,000 deaths a year 💰 avoid $1 trillion/year in economic damage bit.ly/who-report-b... @cleanairfund.bsky.social

Breathing Life into Cities

Analysis shows the health and economic opportunities for 60+ cities if they follow the WHO’s new air pollution Road Map.

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Jane Burston, CEO @cleanairfund.bsky.social reminding #CleanAir4Health2025 of the economic case to invest in #AirQuality projects and laws. World Bank shows, money is already out there: redirecting $trillions from toxic #FossilFuelSubsidies wd be a game changer. www.worldbank.org/en/topic/cli...

Brilliant poet Jayda David shares a hard hitting poem inspired by Ella Roberta‘s life: „ #AirPollution kills. Air pollution steals funds from our National Health Service. There’s something in the air and we do not want to breathe it in, anymore.“ #BreatheLife @drmarianeira.bsky.social

A small group of #climate pollutants– black carbon, #methane, and #ozone – are responsible for nearly half of global temperature increases to date. Experts warn at 2nd @who.int Air Pollution and Health Conference this week. ✍️Sophia Samantaroy @wellcometrust.bsky.social @cleanairfund.bsky.social

Reducing Emissions Of 'Super Pollutants' Would Slam Emergency Brake On Global Warming - Health Policy Watch

Henly and others identified ozone, black carbon, and methane as super pollutants because of their wide-ranging impacts on food security, health, and climate

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Air pollution & climate change are both mainly caused by burning fossil fuels. Transitioning to cleaner energy sources & divesting from fossil fuels can improve #AirQuality, protect #Health & limit #ClimateChange. Hear from @janeburston.bsky.social at our event with @fossiltreaty.bsky.social 🔽

Black carbon contributes to ill health & the 8 million+ premature deaths a year caused by #AirPollution. Yesterday's event on addressing short-lived climate pollutants at the @who.int conference explored how to tackle this problem to protect health, the climate & economy ▶️ bit.ly/4c2B4Se