🚍 Live at our webinar “Driving Change: How Mobility Choices Shape Our Air” Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority sharing big strides: e-buses, Mass transit, rail projects & safer walking/cycling paths showing how cities can move toward sustainable mobility shaping cleaner, healthier cities.

🚨Happening Now! “Driving Change: How Mobility Choices Shape Our Air” webinar is live! Join the conversation here🔗 bit.ly/3Vos8PE

Are you a highly motivated early-career researcher from a developing country or a country in transition, and want to be a Chapter Scientist in the next IPCC report? Then here is your chance. Deadline 18 October 2025. www.ictp.it/opportunity/...

Happening Today! Our webinar “Driving Change: How Mobility Choices Shape Our Air” goes live in just a few hours. 📅 Friday, Sept 26, 2025 🕑 14:00–15:30 WAT (GMT+1) Join the conversation here🔗 bit.ly/3Vos8PE

Dirty air is a health crisis: 🧠 Linked to strokes, dementia & cancer 👶 8.1m premature deaths per year, including babies & children 🏥 More illness, hospital visits & pressure on health services Clean air = healthier lives. Learn more ⬇️ #AirPollution www.cleanairfund.org/theme/health/

HEI is excited to announce that mentor applications are now being accepted for our Summer 2026 Fellowship Program! We invite members of the HEI community working at research institutions or organizations to apply. Applications are due by October 24. Learn more: tinyurl.com/2v2f6j8m

The Young Champions of the Earth prize celebrates bold youth with big ideas to solve the planet’s toughest environmental issues. Meet the 2025 #YoungChamps: three entrepreneurs turning waste into resources, tackling pollution, and reimagining how we use water. 🎉 www.unep.org/youngchampio...

Meet the Advisory Council. Martha Mugarura | Assistant Commissioner, Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Uganda With expertise in urban development, Martha supports AfriCAN's mission to embed clean air thinking in cities and planning policies across Africa.

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Congratulations to @openaq.org for 10 years of impact! Check out our #ScienceOnThe7th conversation with Openaq ED Chris Hagerbaumer where we discussed open data, air quality and more. 🔗: www.youtube.com/live/dUtuey-...

Join us on Friday to hear from a stellar panel on opportunities for improving #AirQuality through transportation interventions. 🧪

Registration for experts interested in serving as Expert Reviewers and providing scientific comments on the First Order Draft of the Special Report on Climate Change and Cities is now open! Register here: apps.ipcc.ch/comments/src... ⚠️ Registration closes 30 Nov2025 🔗 www.ipcc.ch/2025/09/17/p...

Join us for the 4th annual Ramanathan Climate Conversation hosted by @climate.nationalacademies.org‬, and @scrippsocean.bsky.social‬ This year we’ll talk air pollution in India! ⏰: September 29, 2025 RSVP: www.nationalacademies.org/event/45367_... 🧪

After growing up without reliable power at home, Iwnetim Abate, one of this year’s 35 Innovators Under 35, is working to develop a steady supply of sustainable energy.

📣 A new #AirQuality dataset for Ghana from @dwesty.bsky.social & colleagues

On #WorldCleanAirDay, Science on the 7th explored why clean air is urgent and achievable: 💡 Impacts health, food & economies 💡 Data must drive action 💡 Solutions exist—from regional to community levels Watch the replay. www.youtube.com/live/PjeD57E... #CleanAir4All

#DidYouKnow? Cooking, heating & transport are major sources of fine particle pollution worldwide. Explore the UNEP Pollution Action Note for data on sources, impacts & solutions by country: bit.ly/41R24jI #CleanAir4Africa

Meet the Advisory Council Prof. Rebecca Garland is a leading voice in African and global air quality science combining expertise in air quality, climate change, and science–policy linkages, supporting AfriCAN’s mission to turn science into action for #cleanair.

Air pollution doesn’t just harm our 🫁 lungs - it harms our landscapes. Sensitive habitats and species like lichens and wildflowers are disappearing. Let’s #InvestInCleanAir for nature’s sake 🧵 #CleanAirDay #BlueSkies

Disappearing Green: The Silent Struggle for Clean Air in Nairobi – Nancy Kalii Nairobi’s “green lungs” are vanishing. Forests shrink, pollution rises, and lives are caught in the choking air. How long can the city breathe? 📖⬇️ & 🙏🔁 @sei.org @unep.org @who.int

HEI has published a new special report Roadmap to Health: Assessing Adverse and Beneficial Environmental, Social, and Economic Cumulative Exposures. 🧵 1/2

The call for #session #proposals for the #EGU26 General Assembly is now open! Submit short course ideas and/or proposals for Union Symposia and Great Debates by 16 September 2025. 👉 Submit your proposals here: egu.eu/60GYS7

🥳 Today, OpenAQ celebrates our 10th anniversary! Reflections from our board chair, Pallavi Pant, in Time Flies When You Are Doing Good: link.openaq.org/Time-Flies A trip down memory lane: openaq.org/ten-years Our deepest gratitude to everyone who has been part of our journey and cheered us on. 🙏

Know a dataset making an impact for people, planet, or prosperity? 🌎 Nominate it for AGU’s upcoming commentary by 10 Oct. You may be featured! 🔗: buff.ly/XLFfYqM #ImpactfulData #EarthScience

The race is on for everyone, everywhere to breathe clean air. On #CleanAirDay my message is simple: the race against air pollution can - and must - be won. Get it right and we can stop over 8 million premature deaths each year. Be part of the solution to #BeatPollution: www.cleanairblueskies.org

🌍#Wildfires are no longer just natural disasters — they’re potent accelerators of global air pollution & public health crises. In 2024, wildfires drove up dangerous air pollution (PM2.5) across #Canada, the #Amazon, #Africa, & beyond. Read ⬇️ & 🔁 @cleanairfund.bsky.social @wmo-global.bsky.social

We’re excited to announce our 2025 #UrbanCleanAirChampions!🌍 From grassroots action in Accra, to influencing policy in Bangkok, these champions demonstrate how clean air action looks in practice. Meet them ahead of @unep.org #CleanAirDay 👇 bit.ly/4n9DzGv

Once one of the most polluted cities on Earth, Mexico City has made big progress in cleaning its air. From phasing out diesel to real-time alerts, its 22 million residents are now breathing easier. In this #CleanAirDay Q&A, Mexico’s air quality lead explains: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

From Kampala to Homa Bay, electric motorcycles are helping clean the air and break gender barriers. With support from UNEP and @bmz.de, women are now being trained as riders, mechanics and clean energy leaders. Read their stories ahead of #CleanAirDay: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

Racing towards clean energy and ending waste burning will clear the track towards healthier lives, cleaner skies, and a safer climate for billions. Sunday is #CleanAirDay. Join the race against air pollution to accelerate solutions & secure clean air for all: www.cleanairblueskies.org/about/theme

La pollution atmosphérique est le plus grand risque environnemental de notre époque. Voici les progrès réalisés par l'Afrique au cours des dix dernières années: ✅ Surveillance renforcée ✅ Nouvelles politiques publiques ✅ Engagement citoyen accru

Ça se passe maintenant ! Notre webinaire est en cours. 📣 À l'occasion de la Journée internationale de l'air pur pour un ciel bleu, des experts partageront leurs réussites et leurs perspectives. 🎤 Intervenants: N'Datchoh Evelyne Touré, Patrick de Marie Katoto, Lantam Djeri Wake et Felix Assah.

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Delighted to welcome our 7 new partners joining the Africa Clean Air Network. Each organisaton brings unique expertise and diverse perspectives that strengthen our collective mission for #CleanAir4Africa. Together we’re driving coordinated, evidence-based solutions across the continent.

Unlock the power of GitHub! Researchers and students: See how GitHub can elevate your projects and collaboration. Offered with our partners at the Center on Aging, Climate, and Health (CACHE). 📅 Sept 17 | 🕚 11:00 AM ET 🔗 https://loom.ly/9i1-vVs

1/2 Starting today, we’re launching SFC Spotlight — a video series that takes you inside a day in the life of our researchers as they share what they’re working on and why it matters for India’s sustainable future. Our first episode features Annanya Mahajan, Research Lead,

🚨I’m recruiting 1-2 PhD students for my Air Quality Data Science 🌐 group @utah.edu (start Fall ’26), working on multimodal machine learning applications for atmospheric chemistry (wildfires, ozone, dust). How to apply below. Please repost & ping me with recommendations!

Don’t miss this! Register: epic.uchicago.edu/events/event... #AirQuality 🧪

In Africa, philanthropy invests about 5000 times less in air pollution per year of life expectancy lost due to the issue compared to other major health threats. According to the Clean Air Fund, less than 300k USD per year was spent on air pollution across the continent from 2015-2022.

In a new #ScienceReview, researchers discuss the latest understanding of secondary organic aerosol formation in urban China, providing a framework for identifying knowledge gaps and guiding future research into haze chemistry and pollution control strategies. https://scim.ag/3HCgNrX

1/2 #JobAlert: We’re #hiring a Fellow, Energy Transitions in New Delhi. Our work focuses on explaining the entrenched patterns in the Indian energy sector, identifying key bottlenecks to a clean energy transition, and finding solutions to ease its challenges.

Memory Monday! OpenAQ is marching toward our 10th anniversary on 9 September. This blog from 2023 tells the story of how and why we came to be thanks to the foresight and persistence of our founders, @christahasenkopf.bsky.social & Joe Flasher. openaq.medium.com/the-openaq-o...

In the run-up to #CleanAirDay, let’s look at some of the organizations around the world leading action on #AirPollution. 1/n #AirQuality 🧪

Sep 7 is the International Day of Clean Air for blue skies! This year’s theme is Racing for Air. Why do we need fast and meaningful action? 📍Millions of deaths and healthy years lost each year 📍Reduction in crop productivity 📍Loss of well being, income #CleanAirDay 🧪 1/n

Meet the Advisory Council Prof. Francis Pope, Professor of Atmsopheric Science, University of Birmingham, UK Prof. Pope leads research at the intersection of atmospheric science and urban resilience—contributing to AfriCAN’s vision for data-informed, system-wide air quality solutions.

“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.” Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris

#India’s Air Quality Index Improves But #Delhi Remains World’s Worst Polluted City 📣The eighth #AQLI report released on Thursday, establishes a firm global warming link to air pollution. 📖 ➡️ healthpolicy-watch.news/indias-air-q... ✍️ @chetanr.bsky.social @cleanairfund.bsky.social

icacgp-igac2026.org Next year in Greece @igacproject.bsky.social @igac-ecr.bsky.social @wmo-global.bsky.social Please note the dates and deadlines and share ..More updates will follow

Here is an excellent opportunity for meaningful engagement & policy impact.

Poland has improved its #AirQuality, but systemic issues around outdated heating systems & poorly insulated buildings remain 🏭 Jan Ruszkowski (Renovation Wave) explores how thermal modernisation can realise economic, environmental, health & social benefits ✍️ www.cleanairfund.org/news-item/po...