A survey of Chinese families’ awareness of indoor air pollution carried out by Blueair in cooperation with Alibaba’s TMALL reveals that two-thirds of Chinese parents worry about the air quality in their homes.
Climate change and air pollution makes the pollen season longer and more intense resulting in rising health care costs, reduced working capacity and absence from work due to illness and/or care of children affected by pollen allergies. To reduce the global burden of pollen allergies, monitoring and control of air quality standards at schools and workplaces are needed.
To encourage government and business to tackle air pollution, the world's biggest threat to human health, the UN must add a Sustainable Development Goal on “Clean Air”.
