Our Common Air is an independent Commission that brings together powerful voices to catalyse and accelerate global collective action on air pollution.
Board Chair
Partnership for Maternal Newborn and Child Health
Former Prime Minister of New Zealand and UNDP Administrator
Chairperson
M S Swaminathan Research Foundation
Former Chief Scientist
World Health Organization
Founder-CEO
Council on Energy, Environment and Water
Director
Director, Clean Air Program
Energy Policy Institute, University of Chicago (EPIC)
Senior Fellow
The Fletcher School
Co-Chair
International Resource Panel
CEO and Founder
Clean Air Fund
Vice President (Operations)
MIGA, World Bank Group
Founding Director*
Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE)
Executive Director
GWL Voices for Change and Inclusion
Director
Public Health, Environment and Social Determinants of Health Department, World Health Organization
Head of Secretariat
Climate and Clean Air Coalition
Special Presidential Envoy for Global Commons
University of Tokyo
President
Resilient Health Systems, LLC
Climate and Health Policy Fellow*
Imperial College London
Senior Fellow
Jackson School of Global Affairs, Yale University
Professor
Bandung Institute of Technology
Former Deputy Mayor
Environment and Energy, Greater London Authority
Mayor
Freetown, Sierra Leone
(All commissioners are part of Our Common Air in their personal capacities.)
(*With effect from July 2024.)
This Call to Action makes the economic case for clean air, financing the investments needed, setting targets and tracking progress, and sharing solutions.
We hope this report can trigger commitment to deliver clean air for all.
Governments, businesses, investors, multilateral development banks, and others must recognise and track the economic value that clean air creates, treating it as an ‘asset’ that benefits us all.
Public development banks and the wider development finance community should unlock the funding needed to clean the air.
All governments and non-state actors should set targets to limit PM2.5 levels to WHO guidelines by 2030 — or, recognise each has different starting points and circumstances, an ambitious target based on the WHO interim guidelines — and annually report on progress.
Philanthropy, development finance, and existing sectoral entities should build a global solutions network that combines existing efforts to cut emissions and accelerate technological transformation.
Governments should integrate air pollution outcomes into the review of their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), rapidly address short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) and set ambitious SLCP emissions reduction targets.
In this column published in the World Economic Forum, Arunabha Ghosh and Jane Burston highlight how to accelerate collective action for clean air.
16 January 2024
5 February 2024
18 March 2024
Our co-chairs and commissioners write about Our Common Air’s mission and vision to recognise clean air as a global societal asset.