air pollution Archives

Athletics Kenya and Swedish Athletics Association strengthen collaboration for sustainability and climate action

Press release / New air quality sensors have been installed by the Adidas Stockholm Marathon to improve air quality with support from SEI and UNEP.

3 June 2024 / About Cities and Pollution

Close-up of a woman's hand holding a ladle, stirring a large metal pot filled with stew, set over a basic, open metal stove on a concrete floor.

Household carbon monoxide (CO) concentrations in a large African city: an unquantified public health burden?

Journal article / Carbon monoxide exposure poses a health risk to many urban residents in sub-Saharan Africa, with concentrations at their highest as evening meals are prepared.

24 May 2024 / About Pollution and Wellbeing

Excited School Children in Uniform with Hands Up

SAMHE workshop at PECT Eco Awards 2024

Past event / Sam Bland led primary and secondary school students in an interactive demonstration of the SAMHE air quality monitor at this event in Peterborough.

23 May 2024 / About Cities and Pollution

Sustainable building facade with a living wall and solar panels in the Barcelona city

Urban transformation to carbon-free with lush greenery and colored solar energy and storage technologies at the diverse climatic conditions of Europe

Other publication / This chapter presents a framework for carbon-free European cities using natural solutions tailored to diverse climates.

21 May 2024 / About Cities, Fossil fuels and Pollution

Large plume of smoke coming out of a pipe

Identifying globally relevant learnings from Africa’s challenges and solutions to climate change and air pollution-related health impacts: a data science scoping review protocol

Journal article / This review examines how data science interventions address climate change and air pollution-related health issues in Africa.

20 May 2024 / About Pollution

Sustainability training workshop for the National Olympic Committee of Kenya

Past event / SEI Africa is working with the National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOC -K) to develop a Sustainability Policy and Sustainability Strategy for sports management

29 April 2024 / About Pollution, Sustainable Development Goals and Sustainable lifestyles

High angle shot of a street on a rainy day. Two red trams are on the left-hand side of the image, and a line of cars, brake lights visible, queues at a red traffic light on the right. Drifting smoke partially obscures the bottom half of the image. Pedestrians move around the space, crossing the road through the smoke and getting onto one of the trams.

Improving consistency in estimating future health burdens from environmental risk factors: case study for ambient air pollution

Journal article / Researchers developed an enhanced methodology to estimate future health burdens from air pollution. The new estimates improved strikingly upon previous metrics.

24 April 2024 / About Pollution, Short lived climate pollutants and Wellbeing

An abstract, colourful painting fills the frame, with strokes of red, yellow, purple, and brown. An eye has been painted in the middle. In the foreground, a Black hand holds a paintbrush loaded with paint.

Transdisciplinary research as a means of protecting human health, ecosystems and climate by engaging people to act on air pollution

Journal article / Using arts-based approaches, researchers worked with communities in Nairobi to empower people to take action on air pollution.

15 April 2024 / About Pollution

Two-storey buildings on one side of a two-lane road. Slightly blurred traffic rushes by away from the camera: a small white car and a blue tuk tuk.

Air pollutant emissions and sources in Lao People’s Democratic Republic: a provincial scale analysis for years 2013-2019

Journal article / Researchers from our York and Asia centres contributed to the first national and provincial air pollutant emissions inventory for Lao PDR.

8 April 2024 / About Pollution and Short lived climate pollutants