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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Job description
OpenAQ Community Ambassadors are individuals who are committed to using air quality data to create positive change in the fight against air inequality over the course of the fellowship and beyond. Ambassadors must be located in a low- or middle-income country and can come from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds and work in any sector (nonprofit, public or private).
Eligibility
- An early-career professional working in air quality, or a profession that relates closely to air quality, where using air quality data can support your work
- Dedicated to raising awareness of air pollution challenges in your local community
- Willing to lead a project, participate in all activities, and share your progress
- Comfortable presenting to and interacting with air quality decision-makers
- A resident of a low- or middle-income country as classified by the World Bank
- Familiar with the OpenAQ Platform (a plus, but not a prerequisite)
- Comfortable engaging in the English language
- Committed to working with OpenAQ and your fellow ambassadors in a collaborative virtual environment across multiple time zones
- Interested in maintaining ongoing mutual relationships with OpenAQ and your fellow ambassadors after the close of the program
- Able to commit at least 200 hours over the course of the program, with an average time commitment of 5 hours per week
About the organisation
OpenAQ is a nonprofit organization providing universal access to air quality data to empower a global community of changemakers to solve air inequality—the unequal access to clean air.
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