Pledge for data in Africa for IDCABS

University of Chicago - Energy Policy Institute is running a process for organisations to make pledges for International Clean Air Day.

On 8 September - following the UN International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies on the 7th, the EPIC Air Quality Fund will host a live, online, high-visibility session in which organisations, governments, and companies from around the world will publicly announce concrete clean air commitments for the coming year.

Air pollution is one of the world’s greatest external risks to human health, cutting more years from life expectancy than HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined. Yet it receives less than 0.1% of global philanthropy, according to the Clean Air Fund. The gap between the scale of the problem and the scale of the response has never been wider — or the opportunity to close it more clear. This pledge session exists to turn that urgency into public, concrete commitments.

Air Aware Labs will commit to increasing the use of its data in Africa:

• to offer reduce cost access to AirTrack Premium in seven African countries (initial plans are: Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal)
• provide analysis of at least one major sporting event's air quality, likely starting with the Great Ethiopian Run in November.

This follows our engagement with experts from the region on data gaps in Africa.

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