The BreatheLife pamphlet on household air pollution highlights its severe health impacts, including 3.8 million premature deaths annually, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. It identifies inefficient biomass and coal stoves as major contributors, emitting harmful pollutants and black carbon, which also exacerbates climate change. The pamphlet emphasizes transitioning to clean fuels ...

In 2014, WHO issued the first-ever health-based guidelines on clean fuels and technologies for household cooking, heating and lighting. These guidelines aim to help public health policy-makers, as well as specialists working on energy and resource issues, understand and implement best approaches to reducing household air pollution. This extensive scientific assessment identifies which energy syste...

In 2021, the Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA) convened the Clean Cooking & Climate Consortium (4C) to support LMIC governments to make specific commitments to reduce emissions from cooking in their NDCs and/or associated implementation plans. 4C provides technical support for countries’ clean cooking implementation plans as well as developing an MRV framework for climate goals achieved through cle...

DescriptionIn this self-paced course, you’ll learn the underlying science behind how remote sensing works and the basic functional characteristics of satellites and sensors. You will explore the kinds of satellite remote sensing data that are available, advantages and disadvantages of remote sensing, and some basic tools to visualize data. By the end of the course, you’ll be equipped to begin your...

Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) is unhealthy to breathe and is a necessary ingredient for the formation of unhealthy levels of surface ozone. NASA Aura's Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) instrument has been monitoring NO2 data since 2004 and has been used in a variety of health and air quality applications. The Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) instrument aboard Sentinel-5P, launched in 2017, r...

This introductory training series provided a brief overview of some of the fundamentals essential to understanding the remote sensing process, data products, and their use in air quality applications. This training led by NASA's Applied Remote Sensing Training Program (ARSET) was specifically targeted at participants of the in-person workshops at the 17th IUAPPA World Clean Air Congress, the 9th C...

While measurements of morbidity and mortality are key considerations for estimating the burden of disease in populations, they provide an incomplete picture of the adverse impact of ill health on human welfare. In particular, the economic consequences of poor health can be substantial.Analysis of the economic impact of ill-health addresses a number of policy questions concerning the consequences o...

The Non-Motorised Transport Project Assessment Tool (NMT-PAT) is a spreadsheet based tool that evaluates the costs and benefits associated with a walking or cycling project. NMTPAT requires the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet software to function and permission for macros must be enabled to utilise all of its functionality. The full list of data required to complete every part of NMT-PAT can be found ...

Effective transport systems are vital for people to carry out their everyday tasks, and for providing access to many of the goods and services that constitute a modern society. In turn, each transport mode has associated effects on people's health, the environment and the economy as a whole. The ability to fully appraise these direct and indirect effects is integral to utilizing evidence-based pol...

Non-Motorized Transport (NMT) has immense benefits for individual users, as well as society at large, through improvements to physical health, air quality, the environment, climate change, personal finance, accessibility, mobility and the empowerment of vulnerable groups. Therefore, NMT infrastructure - particularly well-planned, high quality facilities in a comprehensive network - is essential to...