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”.
Outdoor and indoor air pollution are two sides of the same coin. Yet a great many people remain oblivious of the link between the contaminated air they are breathing in their homes and workplaces and a huge range of health and wellbeing problems. This Blueair White Paper studies PM2.5 fine particles links to health risks and a wide range of diseases in homes and work spaces
Blueair has published the Fall issue of its English-language quarterly magazine, Blueair Globe, which reports on indoor air and related issues from around the world. The Blueair Globe magazine looks at the latest initiatives in the US spearheaded by President Obama to tackle air pollution from coal plants and reports how 11 countries in Europe still exceed EU air pollutant levels.
