{"id":78780,"date":"2024-10-10T10:58:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T10:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.climatepolicyinitiative.org\/?post_type=cpi_publications&p=78780"},"modified":"2026-05-04T12:44:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:44:30","slug":"the-state-of-global-air-quality-funding-2024","status":"publish","type":"cpi_publications","link":"https:\/\/www.climatepolicyinitiative.org\/pt-br\/publication\/the-state-of-global-air-quality-funding-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of Global Air Quality Funding 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Despite overwhelming evidence of the harm it inflicts, air pollution is still treated as the poor cousin of other development areas within health and climate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toxic air is one of the leading causes of premature deaths worldwide, with a death toll of more than 8 million people each year. It also has crippling economic consequences. From loss of productivity and diminished crop yields to the health costs of treating conditions such as cancer and dementia, the cost of inaction runs into the trillions. The World Bank has estimated that these costs \u2212 a \u2018dirty air tax\u2019 of sorts \u2212 amount to around 6.1% of annual global GDP. Increasingly, air pollution is recognized as a delayer of development and driver of inequalities within and between countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The State of Global Air Quality Funding series<\/a>, produced in partnership with the Clean Air Fund<\/a>, analyzes international development funding flows to outdoor air quality-related projects for the five years up to and including 2022 and is based on the latest publicly available data. The donors covered in this analysis include bilateral and multilateral Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) and governments that provide international funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Levels of air pollution are escalating in most low- and middle-income countries, but international development funding for clean air efforts reached $4.7 billion in 2022. Investments have crept back to pre-pandemic levels ($4.6 billion in 2019), but clean air funding still only makes up 1% of all international development funding. Along with this chronic underfunding, our analysis shows that investments are uneven and not sufficiently targeted or tailored. As a result, opportunities to realize clean air dividends are being missed.<\/p>\n\n\n

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