Simon Birkett, Founder and Director of @CleanAirLondon, has championed @WHO #AirQuality Guidelines to protect public health and the climate since 2006
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🚨#CleanAirCities app now reveals #AirPollution at your current location globally for the last year, 24 hours and next 24 hours. Free to download for Apple tinyurl.com/CAICapple and Android tinyurl.com/CAICandroid devices. Tag #CleanAirNow in your city! 🌍📸📉 HT @NHM_London
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A momentous day for London.
I’m so excited to see our plans to transform Oxford Street becoming a reality.
And this is just the beginning.
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María Neira: «Hoy sería muy difícil crear la Organización Mundial de la Salud» elcomercio.es/premios-prince…
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Más de 350 expertos en calidad del aire se movilizan para que María Neira lidere la OMS elpais.com/clima-y-medio-amb… via @el_pais
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Here it is! My vision and priorities for leading @WHO.
Driven by global health, grounded in experience and inspired by what we can achieve together.
More to come. If you believe in the power of public health, join me.
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One can’t always tell how polluted the air is just by looking at the sky.
And terms like PM2.5, AQI, or super pollutants don’t exactly make things clearer.
Here’s what they mean, and what they can tell us about the air we breathe: bit.ly/4qY1And
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Honoured to be nominated by Spain as a candidate for Director-General of the @WHO
I am grateful for this trust and for the many colleagues and communities who have shaped my life in public health. I believe in WHO.
@sanidadgob @MAECgob
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When air pollution threatens even a global spectacle like F1, will we finally treat clean air as a non negotiable public health priority?
Indonesia’s fires, Singapore’s smog, India’s air pollution; transboundary pollution demands regional cooperation, accountability & prevention.
Our children cannot afford borders in the fight for clean air.
Breaking | @angelaeagle publishes AIR QUALITY 'COMPLIANCE ASSESSMENT SUMMARY 2025' nine days late, reporting NO2 LEGAL BREACH in Marylebone Road hours after @Keir_Starmer by-election closes. Wake-up call to @SadiqKhan as London breaches after complying in 2024 cc @ZackPolanski @EdwardJDavey @tobyperkinsmp @BarryGardiner @CommonsEAC @vonderleyen
Guessing that only @andyburnham or #10 will have had authority (or ‘no objection’) to let @angelaeagle publish with this precise delay at key stage of @CommonsEAC inquiry into…#AirQuality
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Ozone is the most irritant gas for humans. @angelaeagle claims "There were no measured exceedances of the ozone population information threshold of 180 µgm-3 in 2025". Defra's website shows exceedances of 180 on five days in 2025 cc @tobyperkinsmp @BarryGardiner @CommonsEAC gov.uk/government/publicatio…
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Awaab’s Law set legal deadlines for social housing landlords to fix dangerous damp and mould - and is already helping to drive up standards in the social housing sector.
We’re now moving to extend it to private landlords so that England’s 11 million private renters can get the same protections. Extending his law could more than double the number of homes covered by legal deadlines to fix dangerous hazards.
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Breaking | @angelaeagle publishes AIR QUALITY 'COMPLIANCE ASSESSMENT SUMMARY 2025' nine days late, reporting NO2 LEGAL BREACH in Marylebone Road hours after @Keir_Starmer by-election closes. Wake-up call to @SadiqKhan as London breaches after complying in 2024 cc @ZackPolanski @EdwardJDavey @tobyperkinsmp @BarryGardiner @CommonsEAC @vonderleyen
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Breaking | @angelaeagle publishes AIR QUALITY 'COMPLIANCE ASSESSMENT SUMMARY 2025' nine days late, reporting NO2 LEGAL BREACH in Marylebone Road hours after @Keir_Starmer by-election closes. Wake-up call to @SadiqKhan as London breaches after complying in 2024 cc @ZackPolanski @EdwardJDavey @tobyperkinsmp @BarryGardiner @CommonsEAC @vonderleyen
Ozone is the most irritant gas for humans. @angelaeagle claims "There were no measured exceedances of the ozone population information threshold of 180 µgm-3 in 2025". Defra's website shows exceedances of 180 on five days in 2025 cc @tobyperkinsmp @BarryGardiner @CommonsEAC gov.uk/government/publicatio…
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Delhi’s pollution season isn’t “starting early”, it is starting predictably.
The worst average AQI for the first 4 days of October since 2020. PM 10 dominance, local emissions, road dust, C&D waste, biomass burning are already pushing the city towards another toxic winter.
hindustantimes.com/cities/de… via @appriseParas @htTweets
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Update Friday 2 October 2026 | Very oddly, @angelaeagle has still not published the Report and Compliance Assessment Summary for 2025. We've written to her asking what's going on << These are vital evidence for @CommonsEAC's current inquiry into 'Air Pollution in England' cc @tobyperkinsmp @BarryGardiner
Media advisory: @angelaeagle @DefraGovUK must publish by end Wed 30 Sept 2026 its AIR POLLUTION IN THE UK REPORT and COMPLIANCE ASSESSMENT SUMMARY for 2025. Watch for number of zones exceeding NO2 annual limit value and new breaches ps due by 1/1/2010! uk-air.defra.gov.uk/library/…
Update Friday 2 October 2026 | Very oddly, @angelaeagle has still not published the Report and Compliance Assessment Summary for 2025. We've written to her asking what's going on << These are vital evidence for @CommonsEAC's current inquiry into 'Air Pollution in England' cc @tobyperkinsmp @BarryGardiner