Thirty-one EPIC Air Quality Fund awardees in government, academia, and civil society are installing more than 700 monitors across 19 countries where citizens are losing a combined 2 billion life years due to particulate pollution. They are launching air quality data projects with the aim to drive national-level clean air impacts, such as the creation of national clean air standards where they do not yet exist. By definition, awardees are working in countries experiencing high pollution levels yet receiving little or even no existing funding for such efforts.

But more work remains. Fifty-eight other countries have a “higher opportunity” to significantly reduce pollution, given their current pollution levels and limited resources. That’s potentially another 2 billion life-years combined that could be saved due to reduced particulate pollution.