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Air pollution is the largest environment-related cause of ill health, responsible for about 7 million premature deaths per year. This urgently needs to be reduced. It has a major impact on the economy with estimates of welfare costs to the global economy of about $18–25 trillion dollars per year by 2060, according to the OECD and World Bank.
Smoke rising towards the sky from the chimneys of a paper mill in Sweden. Photo: Daniel Moqvist / Unsplash.
Join this session to hear from the member companies of the World Economic Forum’s Alliance for Clean Air, the first coalition of multinational companies who have pledged to measure and reduce their air pollutant emissions and actively participate in the fight against air pollution. Today the guide that has allowed Alliance members to quantify the air pollutant emissions along their value chains is being launched by SEI, the Climate and Clean Air Coalition and Inter-IKEA group.
This session is hosted by We Mean Business Coalition in collaboration with the World Economic Forum, Clean Air Fund, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC).
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Martina Otto, the Head of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) Secretariat, and Eleni Michalopoulou, Research Associate from the Stockholm Environment Institute, will answer key questions during the session.
This event will take place at the We Mean Business Pavilion (Blue Zone Area C, Delegations Pavilion 5, No. P118) at COP27, Sharm el-Sheikh, but you can also join the event online.
Journal article / Using arts-based approaches, researchers worked with communities in Nairobi to empower people to take action on air pollution.
Project / The project works with the Bogotá Environmental Agency to develop diverse pathways for air quality management.
Journal article / Researchers from our York and Asia centres contributed to the first national and provincial air pollutant emissions inventory for Lao PDR.
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