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World Air Quality Report 2022 finds only six countries met WHO guidelines for PM2.5

The 5th annual IQAir World Air Quality Report, which reviews air quality data from 7,323 cities across 131 countries, has found that only Australia, Estonia, Finland, Grenada, Iceland, and New Zealand met the World Health Organisation guideline for PM2.5.

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The IKEA Foundation and the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation to contribute £55m to the Clean Air Fund

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Air pollution hospitalises 200,000 in one week as fumes, emissions and smoke descend on Thailand

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Kitchen air pollution tackled in University of Surrey’s Global Centre for Clean Air Research

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Anger as Government announce cuts to Active Travel Funding

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More than half Northern Ireland’s electricity supply now comes from renewables

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U.S. Department of Energy announces $6bn investment in industrial decarbonisation

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Polymer coating could enable longer lasting, more powerful lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles

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Anger as Government announce cuts to Active Travel Funding

While the big news was the delay to parts of the HS2 line and the mothballing of two road schemes, transport secretary Mark Harper managed to slip in the news that the active travel budgets was being slashed. By what exact amount is not clear but the lowest estimate is £200m, two thirds of the budget.