India Clean Air Connect aims to help unlock barriers to air quality action in India at scale
Our goal is to support greater coordination, & collaboration across people working on air quality from diverse expertise and geographies
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India Clean Air Connect is a response to air quality convenings hosted by the India Climate Collaborative, Clean Air Fund, ClimateWorks Foundation and Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation in 2019 and 2020.
India's air pollution is not limited to one city or one source
Solving for India's air pollution crisis means:
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Aligning efforts across different disciplines to address multiple sources of pollution
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Improving air quality in all 124 non-attainment cities, 73 polluted industrial clusters and more
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Amplifying and strengthening existing efforts and networks
124 Non-attainment cities
73 Critically polluted industrial clusters
If your work seeks to improve India’s air quality through communication, advocacy, research, policy change, planning, litigation, community engagement or market-based solutions, join #IndiaCleanAirConnect
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Bringing India’s AQ ecosystem together for clean air
At present, India is the fifth most polluted country in the world; and according to the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution reduces the average Indian life expectancy by 6.3 years. Poor air quality (AQ) directly affects the health and well-being of individuals, communities, and the environment, requiring urgent action for clean air in India.
While civil society is working hard to tackle air pollution, the scale of the AQ crisis demands deeper partnerships and collaborations across the ecosystem from diverse stakeholders – government, civil society, academia, etc. However, various gaps ranging from a lack of awareness of the composition and diversity of actors, to these actors working in silos in the AQ ecosystem are hindering ecosystem-wide collaborations, regional interdisciplinary partnerships, knowledge-sharing, and funding for innovative AQ solutions.
India Clean Air Connect exists to bring together diverse air quality actors and build a thriving ecosystem, by amplifying the efforts of diverse organisations and actors, to a larger ecosystem, including funders.
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About India Clean Air Connect
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India Clean Air Connect is an outcome of a 2021-22 study executed by Sensing Local, and supported by the India Climate Collaborative and EdelGive Foundation, to map and assess India’s growing air quality ecosystem, which also resulted in a report detailing the ecosystem, its actors, and their roles.
The study involved engaging with a diverse set of organisations across India that are working to tackle air pollution consisting of scientists, lawyers, journalists, campaigners, entrepreneurs, researchers, public health experts etc., in order to:
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Map diverse efforts to tackle air quality and where they are being undertaken
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Aggregate trends of challenges faced in air quality work and types of data knowledge sources dominantly used
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Communicate opportunities for funding and collaborations that support air quality work
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Understand shared priorities by sector, discipline and region​
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