Context Newsroom: How governments should cut air pollution – from a doctor – GCHA Board Member Yuri Carvajal

Mar 24, 2025

The World Health Organization’s conference on air pollution and health opens this week in Cartagena, Colombia. Dr Yuri Carvajal is a board member of the Global Climate and Health Alliance and President of the Environment Department of The Medical College of Chile....

Clean Air, Healthy Lives: New Roadmap Launched to Aid Governments Tackle Air Pollution Ahead of WHO Conference

Mar 20, 2025

Cartagena, 20 March 2025:- Ahead of next week’s WHO conference on the health impacts of air pollution, health professionals are calling for governments to urgently protect their populations from the deadly health impacts of polluted air and to ramp up investment in...

Associated Press: Majority of the world’s population breathes dirty air, report says

Mar 11, 2025

  Associated Press, March 11, 2025, by Sibi Aru: Majority of the world’s population breathes dirty air, report says Most of the world has dirty air, with just 17% of cities globally meeting air pollution guidelines, a report Tuesday found. Switzerland-based air...

Associated Press: Scientists raise concerns as the US stops sharing air quality data from embassies worldwide

Mar 6, 2025

Associated Press, March 6, 2025: By TAIWO ADEBAYO and SIBI ARASUThe U.S. government will stop sharing air quality data gathered from its embassies and consulates, worrying local scientists and experts who say the effort was vital to monitor global air quality and...

Clean Air Day: Governments Must Tackle Toxic Air Pollution, Slash Fossil Fuel Use and Commit to Clean Air Ahead of Key Health Conference

Sep 5, 2024

September 5, 2024:- Professional health organisations from around the world today called on governments to protect people’s health by tackling the toxic air pollution impacting 99% of the world’s population, slash the use of fossil fuels that drive both air pollution...