About this Research Topic
To overcome air-pollution, the theme for 2023’s United Nations International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies is “Together for Clean Air”. This theme focuses on the need for greater collaboration and partnerships to increase investment and shared responsibility to overcome air-pollution. Participation needs to include everyone, from governments and corporations to civil society and individuals to raise awareness for the problems facing air-pollution and working together, across borders to ameliorate the health problems and climate issues that polluted air brings. Whilst 99% of the world is affected by polluted-air, it is within cities that this is more of a problem. With cars, factories, and industrial sites, the need for solutions to polluted-air is imperative.
Polluted-air is a two-fold issue:
Firstly, there are detrimental impacts to the environment, causing near-term warming of the planet as short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) can endure in the air for anywhere from a few days to decades.
Secondly, the health problems caused by SLCPs are responsible for about one-third of deaths from stroke, chronic respiratory disease, and lung cancer, as well as one quarter of deaths from heart attack. The tiny pollutant particles are breathed in and can pass into the bloodstream, causing irreparable harm.
This Research Topic aims to tackle the issue of how cities across the world can come ‘Together for Clean Air’. Analysing the impact of social movements, as well as governmental policies and business practices. There are multiple and proven solutions to air-pollution that are low-cost and easy to implement. This is particularly important for cities where the majority of the world’s population resides, with numbers increasing on an annual basis. We are looking for papers that would look into those solutions, analysing their impact and assessing if they can generate multiple important health benefits and reduce near-term warming.
These topics can include, but are not limited to:
A just energy transition
Net-zero pathways
Shifting away from unsustainable production and consumption patterns
Commitment to net-zero emissions.
Polluted-air is a two-fold issue:
Firstly, there are detrimental impacts to the environment, causing near-term warming of the planet as short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) can endure in the air for anywhere from a few days to decades.
Secondly, the health problems caused by SLCPs are responsible for about one-third of deaths from stroke, chronic respiratory disease, and lung cancer, as well as one quarter of deaths from heart attack. The tiny pollutant particles are breathed in and can pass into the bloodstream, causing irreparable harm.
This Research Topic aims to tackle the issue of how cities across the world can come ‘Together for Clean Air’. Analysing the impact of social movements, as well as governmental policies and business practices. There are multiple and proven solutions to air-pollution that are low-cost and easy to implement. This is particularly important for cities where the majority of the world’s population resides, with numbers increasing on an annual basis. We are looking for papers that would look into those solutions, analysing their impact and assessing if they can generate multiple important health benefits and reduce near-term warming.
These topics can include, but are not limited to:
A just energy transition
Net-zero pathways
Shifting away from unsustainable production and consumption patterns
Commitment to net-zero emissions.
Keywords: Polluted Air, Short-Lived Climate Pollutants, Urban Health, Population Health, Net-Zero Emissions, Near-Term Warming
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