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Healthy Air Coalition UK @healthyairuk.bsky.social · 7h

🚨 Bad news for clean air: funding to tackle pollution dropped by 20%, while fossil fuel aid jumped 80% to $9.5bn. 😷💨
The world can’t afford to bankroll dirty air! 🌍
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Clean air funding falls, while aid for fossil fuel projects soars

Global funding to tackle air pollution is falling, even as the world faces mounting health and economic costs from toxic air, according to this year’s State of Global Air Quality Funding report,…

airqualitynews.com

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Mums for Lungs @mumsforlungs.bsky.social · 5d

If you're a councillor or a council officer, please come along to our #SchoolStreets webinar, two weeks today! We will share insights and practical steps on how to deliver School Streets effectively.

Sign up below to join us on Friday, 17th October at 12pm.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mums-for-l...

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Dr Gary Fuller @drgaryfuller.bsky.social · 5d

#Airpollution increases the likelihood of becoming frail in middle & old age, according to an international review

People living longer is something to celebrate but reducing #airpollution will be important for life-quality and health cost.

Piece by me.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Frailty in ageing populations worsened by air pollution, global review finds

Coauthor of research says condition linked to heightened vulnerability and loss of independence – but is reversible

www.theguardian.com

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Healthy Air Coalition UK @healthyairuk.bsky.social · 5d

Finally, Cllr Waseem Zaffar MBE closed the discussion by outlining the progress made on cleaning the air in Birmingham, and praising Sadiq Khan's work in London.

📣 "We need the government to mandate action at the local level. We need a new Clean Air Act"

@waseemzaffar.bsky.social #LPC25

Waseem Zaffar sits on a stage next to the Chair and other panellists, and speaks into a microphone.

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Healthy Air Coalition UK @healthyairuk.bsky.social · 5d

We were grateful to have Dr Mike McKean from the Royal College of Paediatrics @rcpch.bsky.social also join the HAC event to call for clean air to be recognised as a human right.

📣 "We have a big problem with not thinking about health holistically and not putting enough money into prevention"
#LPC25

Dr Mike McKean sits on a stage next to the Chair and other panellists, and speaks into a microphone.

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Healthy Air Coalition UK @healthyairuk.bsky.social · 5d

Liz from @mumsforlungs.bsky.social reminded us that Manchester is the most polluted city in the UK, with a recent 33% increase in babies and toddlers admitted to hospital with breathing issues. Political leadership and School Streets needed in Manchester and across UK. 🚸
@lizgdfy.bsky.social #LPC25

Liz Godfrey sits on a stage next to the Chair and other panellists, and speaks into a microphone.

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Healthy Air Coalition UK @healthyairuk.bsky.social · 5d

Barry Gardiner MP gave the audience food for thought, arguing that everyone harmed by pollution should be able to bring a case against the government, learning from the story of @ellarobertafdn.bsky.social. He rightly called for a new Clean Air Act - A HAC campaign!
@barrygardiner.bsky.social #LPC25

Barry Gardiner sits on a stage next to the Chair and other panellists, and speaks into a microphone.

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Healthy Air Coalition UK @healthyairuk.bsky.social · 5d

John Whitby MP passionately described air pollution as "an issue that's all around us. Where children play, where they live" and made the first call of the day for new @who.int-aligned air quality targets. Excellent to hear John raise the harms of burning wood too ☣️🔥
@johnwhitbymp.bsky.social #LPC25

John Whitby sits on a stage next to the Chair and other panellists, and speaks into a microphone.

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Healthy Air Coalition UK @healthyairuk.bsky.social · 5d

We were thrilled to host a lively discussion this week at the Labour Party Conference, in partnership with @thefabians.bsky.social.

Panellists discussed clean air justice and what it would mean for Labour to lead on this issue. ⚖️
@soniaadesara.bsky.social #LPC25

Five panelists and an event Chair sit on a stage decorated with Fabian Society branding. They are talking and laughing among themselves.

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Healthy Air Coalition UK @healthyairuk.bsky.social · 7d

The Healthy Air Coalition has been at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool this week.

We've been speaking to politicians, councillors and journalists to spread the word about the many benefits of clean air, most crucially to our health.

#LPC2025 #AirPollution

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Healthy Air Coalition UK @healthyairuk.bsky.social · 7d

We are very pleased that work to tackle toxic air in London meant the Capital met legal air pollution limits for the first time in 2024! ☁️

This is a Londonwide average. More to do for areas like Brixton and Lewisham to comply. But there's no doubt this news will improve Londoners' health ❤️

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 7d

NEW: London has achieved the historic milestone of meeting the legal limits for nitrogen dioxide for the first time in 2024 - 184 years earlier than experts predicted.

Blue sky with clouds and text reading “Mayor of London. Great news. London has met legal air quality limits 184 years earlier than predicted.”

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Healthy Air Coalition UK @healthyairuk.bsky.social · 9d

🌬️ Clean air matters! In ONE HOUR we team up with @thefabians.bsky.social at #LabourPartyConference.
📆 Mon 29 Sept | 10–11am
📍 Fabian Hub, Bluecoat Liverpool
🎤 MPs, mayors + experts - join the conversation!

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Fabian Society @thefabians.bsky.social · 14d

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Healthy Air Coalition UK @healthyairuk.bsky.social · 16d

🌆 HAC London unites health, environment + transport orgs against toxic air. And now… we’ve just launched our brand new page! 🚲🏥🌳
➡️ Explore:

We are the London Healthy Air Coalition - Healthy Air Coalition

The London Healthy Air Coalition is a regional group of the national Healthy Air Coalition – a collective of leading health, environment and transport organisations with the shared vision of a UK…

www.healthyair.org.uk

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Healthy Air Coalition UK @healthyairuk.bsky.social · 19d

What can you do to help❓

Sign Mums for Lungs' petition to tell the government to take action for the damage caused by the #Dieselgate scandal, just as the US Government has done. 📣

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ma...

@mumsforlungs.bsky.social

Make polluters pay for poisoning our children

10 years ago it was revealed that many diesel cars were being fitted with illegal technology that means they emit levels of toxic gases (NOx) exceeding testing and legal limits. These emissions poison...

you.38degrees.org.uk

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Healthy Air Coalition UK @healthyairuk.bsky.social · 19d

NEW: 500,000 cars on UK roads may be fitted with emissions-cheating devices.

This means 10 years after the #Dieselgate scandal broke, our government still hasn't acted to protect us from polluting vehicles.
www.independent.co.uk/news/health/... @mumsforlungs.bsky.social @clientearth.bsky.social

Around 500,000 more UK cars under investigation over emissions cheating

Dangerous car emissions have been linked to 16,000 premature deaths and 30,000 new cases of asthma in children

www.independent.co.uk

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Mums for Lungs @mumsforlungs.bsky.social · 21d

Tomorrow marks the ten year anniversary of #Dieselgate. It is unbelievable that, ten years after this scandal broke, we are still breathing in excess emissions from diesel cars, and nothing has been done about it in the UK. #AirPollution

A group of campaigners stand outside the Royal Courts of Justice holding a banner that says Diesel Makes Kids Sick.

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Healthy Air Coalition UK @healthyairuk.bsky.social · 19d

Heading to #LibDemConference? 🌿
Come hear how @libdems.org.uk can lead on #CleanAir 🌬️ with us + @ldnc-uk.bsky.social
📆 Sun 21 Sept | 11:30–12:30
📍 Tregonwell Hall, BIC Bournemouth
➡️ See you there!

Healthy Air Coalition UK @healthyairuk.bsky.social · 20d

🏘️ Building homes is vital - but building car dependency isn’t.
Let’s plan for clean air through active🚆🚲 travel + thriving neighbourhoods where people come first. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧
Read more in our blueprint report⬇️
www.healthyair.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Healthy Air Coalition UK @healthyairuk.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 Study: Cancer deaths from #AirPollution may climb again by 2050. Aging populations + weak controls are putting women especially at risk.
Clean energy & strong laws can save lives. 🌍💨⚖️

Air pollution and cancer: Progress made, but global risks rising

A new study has looked at how air pollution – specifically PM2.5 – affects deaths from cancers of the trachea, bronchi, and lungs (TBL cancers) across four major economies: China, the United States,…

airqualitynews.com

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Healthy Air Coalition UK @healthyairuk.bsky.social · 23d

🎉 Delighted to welcome @rsph.bsky.social as our newest partner to the Healthy Air Coalition!

🫀 RSPH strives to improve public health through policy, research & engagement

💡 We're ready to learn from their expertise in our push for #CleanAir for all

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Healthy Air Coalition UK @healthyairuk.bsky.social · 23d

🫁'In the UK outdoor air pollution causes around 1 in 10 lung cancers'

A sobering read about the pressing dangers of #AirPollution⬇️

Mums for Lungs @mumsforlungs.bsky.social · 23d

"We’ve got to the point where the burden of ill health caused by #AirPollution is so huge, I’m asking myself: ‘What will it take to make the public demand more action?’." Well said @ellarobertafdn.bsky.social.

Such a powerful read about the rise of #LungCancer in non-smoking, healthy young women.

‘I was told I had two weeks to live’ – why are so many young, fit, non-smoking women getting lung cancer?

For decades, lung cancer has been viewed as a disease of older men who smoked. Now, cases among young women are on the rise and doctors are baffled. Could air pollution be behind it?

www.theguardian.com

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Healthy Air Coalition UK @healthyairuk.bsky.social · Sep 5

Yet more evidence linking air pollution to dementia. We must take this seriously.

"Lowering our collective exposure to air pollution... can potentially reduce the risk of developing these devastating neurodegenerative conditions on a population-wide scale.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Air pollution can drive devastating forms of dementia, research suggests

Airborne particles cause toxic clumps of proteins in brain that are hallmarks of Lewy body dementia, study indicates

www.theguardian.com

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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · Sep 3

Air pollution costs countries up to 6.5% of GDP every year.

The clock is ticking in the race for clean air, and there are no valid excuses to slow action.

Organizing an event to mark Sunday’s #CleanAirDay? Register it here: www.cleanairblueskies.org/get-involved...

A paraglider with an orange wing soars against a blue sky over mountain silhouettes. White bold text in the center reads: “BREATHE. MOVE. THRIVE.” Below, smaller text says: “Clean air powers health, jobs, and climate action.” At the bottom are logos for International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies, UN Environment Programme, and Climate and Clean Air Coalition.

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