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6/ Next post will be what you need to know about air pollution and what you can do about it.

7/ Sources:
[1] AQLI Annual Update 2024:
[2] The-State-of-Global-Air-Quality-Funding-2021-report-compressed-2.pdf (Annex 1)
[3] (a total of USD 330 million between 2015-2022; annual-average: USD 41.2 million)
[4]…

2/ Air pollution is poorly funded globally

HIV/AIDS receive $654 million annually from philanthropic foundations worldwide. Outdoor air pollution receives less than a tenth of that amount (41.3 million USD ) despite its larger global health burden.

The entire continent of…

3/ People living in the most polluted regions (top quintile by particulate concentration) in the world breathe air which is six times more polluted than the air that people in the cleanest regions (bottom quintile by particulate concentration) are exposed to.

As a result, those…

4/ More than 75 percent of countries in the world either don’t have standards or don’t meet them.

One-third of the world’s population lives in regions that don’t meet the standards that their countries have set.

If those countries did meet their own benchmarks, these 2.5…

5/ Some of the most polluted places in the world don’t have a single air quality monitoring station and only 36 percent of countries publicly monitor air quality according to OpenAQ.

Air pollution is one of the greatest threats to public health.
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1/ Particulate pollution is set to reduce global average life expectancy by 1.9 years.

Contrast that with:
+ smoking (1.7 yrs)
+ child and maternal malnutrition (1.4 yrs)
+ alcohol use (5 months)
+ ; transportation injuries from vehicle accidents and unsafe water,…