A project of EPIC's Clean Air Program, the Air Quality Fund aims to expand access to air quality data to 1 billion people by 2030 by supporting local organizations in installing monitors and providing open data.
Whileresearch shows that installing air quality monitors and sharing real-time data with the public in places with very little or no data leads to cleaner air, nearly 40 percent of countries—many of which satellite data shows are highly polluted—aren’t producing open air quality data for their citizens. That is largely because they are caught in a vicious cycle of inequality where most of the funding to combat pollution goes to some of the cleanest areas of the world. The EPIC Air Quality Fund breaks this cycle by supporting local groups and organizations in installing monitors and providing open data to communities that could benefit the most. Providing this data allows citizens to understand the depth of the pollution problem where they live and call for change. The data also provides a necessary guidepost for setting air quality policies and evaluating their progress.
