Africa qualité de l'Air

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Funding in Africa Air pollution is the second biggest threat to health in Africa, yet the continent receives less than 1% of global outdoor air quality funding from governments and development finance institutions. In ...

The recent @cleanairfund.bsky.social report is cited:
"The need for targeted, equitable investment in clean air has never been more urgent. Yet outdoor air quality funding to the continent declined by 69% year-on-year, from $519 million to $161 million, between 2022 and 2023." #AfricaAQ

Dion George: "four barriers to cleaner air...
1. limited institutional capacity
2. inadequate monitoring and data
3. weak cooperation across borders
4. shortage of finance relative to the scale of the problem."

We have been working on #2, but a lot more effort is needed.
#AfricaAQ #G20

Clean air is the new frontier of global cooperation The G20’s first-ever focus on air quality marks a vital step towards protecting health, climate, and sustainable growth.

Powerful op-ed from Mr Dion George, Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Republic of South Africa. "The right to breathe clean air is universal."
#AfricaAQ #AirPollution #G20

"Vumile Senene, a senior official at Clean Air Fund, attributes the extraordinary decline primarily to a single major donor stepping away from air quality funding."

We are grateful to @cleanairfund.bsky.social for their support of Afri-SET (led by Prof Hughes) and Breathe Accra (led by Prof Amegah)

#AfricaAQ

AfriCAN Pilot Peer Editing Initiative - Africa Clean Air Network The Africa Clean Air Network has partnered with the Clean Air Journal to publish select papers based on abstracts presented at the CLEAN-Air Forum 2025 (July 15-17, 2025) held in Nairobi, Kenya. This ...

AfriCAN is offering free peer editing to help researchers strengthen their manuscripts for the Clean Air Journal special issue.
Build your research visibility & impact!
📅 Submit by Nov 10th, 2025
🔗 bit.ly/492H6CD

Very relevant to #AfricaAQ!

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Building Blocks for LCS Data Ecosystem. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Low-cost sensors (LCS) offer a transformative opportunity to bridge the air quality data gaps in data-hungry cities. However, structural and contextual challenges such as data reliability, connectivit...

Many cities in the Global South still face data gaps in understanding #AirQuality
Join us for a deep dive into how sensor networks are transforming AQ monitoring in Africa & beyond.
Together, we’ll explore how to make data trusted, actionable, and sustainable.
🗓️Oct 16, 2025
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Sorry for the extended hiatus - this account will be active again soon, hopefully!
(Currently, Subu is posting from this account.)

We are here too!
News: executive director Mike Giordano is moving on to a new job. We wish him well!
Who will be the next AfriqAir executive director? TBD.

Join us for the first webinar hosted by Afri-SET! We will have 3 great speakers giving an introduction to air quality and atmospheric modeling. Register at afriset.org/webinar