Air pollution

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Climate-friendly, reliable, affordable and integrated mobility

Nairobi

The city is suffering from increased traffic congestion, air and noise pollution, road injuries and fatalities. Let's create a climate-friendly, a reliable, affordable and integrated mobility system

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How important is the air you breathe?

Batticaloa

Over exploitation or destruction of trees and wastage of energy sources plays both direct and indirect roles in the well being of our nature.

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How can we find innovative solutions for improving air quality through waste management?

Phnom Penh

One of the biggest environmental problems in Phnom Penh is air pollution, which leads to sever health risks. Design a smart behavior change campaign to hack the local communities into changing their actions, and stop open burning. Let's join with us to find innovative solutions for this issue.

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Air Pollution and Impacts: Harnessing Alternatives for a Smart City”

Lagos

During an 8 hour hackathon, you will collaborate with other citizens to brainstorm, design, build and recommend innovative alternative and strategies that would provide solutions for mitigate and reduce the air pollution and ensure pollution free and sustainable Lagos!

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How to promote green solar roofs and facades? Good reasons to combine greening of building with PVs

Brussels

Roof gardens with photovoltaics help tackling air pollution, increasing biodiversity, and transforming buildings into self-sustaining living units. But there are few green solar roofs in Brussels. How can integrative planning and implementation be optimized? How can economic efficiency be increased?

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How to become aware of energy consumption of buildings and incite retrofitting and behaviour change?

Brussels

70% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Brussels is caused by the heating of buildings. Insulation of buildings is significantly reduces energy use. The challenge is to make owners and tenants aware of the potential for GHG emission reductions by investing efficiency measures and change of attitude

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How can we find innovative solutions for improving air quality through waste management?

Debrecen

One of the biggest environmental problems in Debrecen is the air pollution. During the heating season, the burning of solid fuels, green waste and garbage are more common, which has harmful effect on air quality. These problems can be solved with the involvement of the local population.

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How we can solve Minsk air quality challenge?

Minsk

How we can solve Minsk air quality challenge?

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How to use ICT and social media to reduce the use of fossil fuels in Brussels?

Brussels

The Brussels Climathon let you team up with persons who want to take action on climate change. Fossil fuels is the single most important cause of climate change and air pollution. Digital technologies connect people, data & devices. Let's repurpose the use of data on our devices and clean Brussels

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How do we decrease air pollution?

More than 80% of people living in urban areas are exposed to poor air quality. Reducing air pollution should be a priority to all cities, not just for decreasing the negative effects of climate change, but for citizens’ health as well.

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Air pollution and problems caused by it are increasingly common, and we need new solutions to monitor emissions. Fast urbanisation and expanding industry further complicate these challenges. Expensive reference class air quality stations that are large and require a lot of maintenance are no longer necessarily applicable, because air quality may vary a great deal within a small area and thus information is needed from several different measuring points.

According to the EU Commission, around 90 per cent of the population in Europe’s cities is exposed to particulate matter pollution levels that exceed WHO air quality guidelines. Particulate matter is the air pollutant that has the most severe impact on health and originates from motor vehicles, industrial facilities, residential fire places, wood stoves and activities such as power generation and agricultural burning.

The increase in vehicles has been given added urgency by the growing recognition that air pollution – much of it the by-product of emissions from vehicles – significantly impacts public health. Across the world air pollution is estimated to be responsible for more than 4.2 million premature deaths each year. Air pollution is most acutely felt within urban areas.

To deliver against climate targets and positively impact on air pollution requires fundamental changes, specifically to the energy sector, compared with current trends. This fundamental shift implies a strong reduction in the ratio between CO2 emissions and GDP (decarbonisation).

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