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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Persistent inequalities in global air quality monitoring should not delay pollution mitigation.

E Keith Smith, Camille Fournier de Lauriere, Ella Henninger

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

E Keith Smith *Department of Humanities, ETH Zurich, Social and Political Sciences, International Political Economy and Environmental Politics, Zurich 8092, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-7702-0809
Camille Fournier de Lauriere *Department of Humanities, ETH Zurich, Social and Political Sciences, International Political Economy and Environmental Politics, Zurich 8092, Switzerland.ORCID 0009-0005-9735-6701
Ella HenningerDepartment of Humanities, ETH Zurich, Social and Political Sciences, International Political Economy and Environmental Politics, Zurich 8092, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-5524-641X

Funding

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (SNF) 219833Swiss Network for International Studies Designing Environmentally Effective and Politically Feasible Policies for Cleaner Urban Air in the G
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Air pollution is a global health crisis that disproportionately affects lower- and middle-income countries. We examine global air quality monitoring data, highlighting persistent inequalities in high-exposure regions, and assess the potential of emerging technologies to improve data utility for mitigation. Improving air quality, however, does not need to wait for more data, nor will monitoring alone drive action. Immediate mitigation measures with broad cobenefits are needed now to reduce pollution, even in data-scarce settings.

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air pollutionbarrier to mitigationmonitoring capacity“no regrets” policies

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PMID40294256
PMCPMC12067272

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