This report provides an estimate of the global, regional, and national costs of health damage—that is, premature mortality and morbidity—from exposure to ambient PM2.5 air pollution in 2016. While recognizing the various costs of air pollution to society, this report focuses on the cost of premature mortality and morbidity due to ambient air pollution, the world’s leading environmental health risk...

This study sets out to calculate the economic costs of premature mortality from air pollution to strengthen the business case for governments to act ambitiously in reducing pollution. It uses both a forgone output and welfare based approach to estimate the financial and economic costs of air pollution globally based on 2013 statistics....

The Benefits of Action to Reduce Household Air Pollution (BAR-HAP) tool is a planning tool for assessing the costs and benefits of different interventions that aim to reduce cooking-related household air pollution. BAR-HAP is a resource in WHO’s Clean Household Energy Solutions Toolkit (CHEST). The tool includes 16 different cleaner cooking transitions from more polluting stoves and fuels to clean...

HEAT for walking and cycling is a user-friendly, web-based tool used to estimate the health and economic impacts of increased walking and cycling. In its current version the HEAT tool supports assessments of the health and economic impacts of walking and cycling on premature mortality in an integrated manner through changes in physical activity levels, exposure to air pollution while walking or cy...

Methodology for quantifying and monitoring emissions reductions and climate impacts due to black carbon and other SLCPs to drive finance into projects with rapid climate and local health benefits....

The W+ Standard is the only women-specific standard that measures women’s empowerment in a transparent and quantifiable manner, through the analysis of data collected within projects and communities. It provides a market-based mechanism that recognizes and rewards women’s contributions to economies, environments and communities. It was developed in 2014 by gender and monitoring and evaluation expe...

Climate change mitigation, air quality and health (CLIMAQ-H) is software developed by the WHO Regional Office for Europe for quantifying the consequences for human health and its related costs achieved by improving national air quality by reducing domestic carbon emissions. The tool is used to analyse the policies for mitigation of carbon emissions reported in nationally determined contributionssu...

Climate change mitigation policies that reduce emissions also improve air quality, bringing health co-benefits – the so-called Health Climate Bonus. The CLIMAQ-H software can be used to estimate the health and related economic gains achieved by Member States of the WHO European Region by implementing actions and measures aimed at mitigating climate change by reducing domestic carbon emissions. The...

AirQ+ is a software tool for quantifying the health burden and impact of air pollution developed by the WHO Regional Office for Europe. AirQ+ includes methodologies to assess the impacts of short- and long-term exposure to ambient air pollution. The main methodologies use evidence generated by epidemiological cohort studies showing a relationship between average long-term air pollution concentrati...

This lecture presents the basic introduction to control of air pollution from stationary and mobile sources....