Breathe London plays a crucial role in helping local communities, schools, hospitals and Londoners understand air pollution and take action to reduce their exposure.
Breathe London measures air quality across the city, making air quality data available to the public, and is engaging with hospitals, schools and local communities to champion action on air pollution.
There are many ways for our network of local authorities, schools and hospitals to get involved in the programme. From the Breathe London newsletter, our working groups for sensor holders that meet monthly, webinars, resources hub and helpdesk, we’re here to help you use the data from your sensor to take action to make the air in your community cleaner and safer to breathe.
The programme is brought to you by a consortium of partners, bringing together leading air quality technology, data and engagement expertise.
Live air pollution data from across London
Our Partners:
Vodafone
Consortium lead and platform for air quality sensor network expansion (infrastructure and environmental data).
Vodafone, as the lead for this partnership, brings its “Network as a Sensor” offering for scaling Breathe London. Vodafone’s global connectivity, the opportunity to utilise its network infrastructure to host additional sensor locations, and its wider portfolio of environmental data are all key enables to expand Breathe London both geographically and with additional data and insights.
Vodafone believes that connectivity is a force for good, and if we use technology for the things that really matter, we can improve our lives and the world around us.
Global Action Plan
Website creation, data ingestion and community outreach and engagement.
Global Action Plan mobilises people and organisations to take action on the systems that harm us and our planet. Through our work we create the political and policy conditions for more radical action, connecting behaviour change to systems change. Our cycle of change involves three connected steps that influence systems change through mobilisation:
We are the charity behind Clean Air Day, the UKs largest public campaign on air pollution.
Airly
Air quality monitors and device management
Airly provides the sensors used to capture continuous air quality data across London in one-minute intervals. They develop innovative, effective tools to measure air quality and deliver the most reliable, real-time pollution data to as many people as possible. Airly’s mission is to turn data into clean air by making air quality visible and understandable to all, because informed communities can take meaningful action.
CERC
Monitoring data calibration, quality control and API access
The team at Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants (CERC), supported by the University of Cambridge, applies automated quality control and calibration to our air quality data based on a scale separation technique. They provide our calibrated hourly monitored data by API for website display, public access and integration with other websites and services. CERC is an expert provider of operational air quality forecasting services, air quality modelling software and air quality consultancy services.
Scotswolds
Deployment and monitoring strategy, PAS4023 compliance
Scotswolds ensures our data is compliant with PAS4023 standards and alignment with future releases. Scotswolds are specialists in air quality monitoring technology, for both outdoor and indoor spaces. From reference grade monitoring technology to low-cost sensors, they design, build, deploy and manage air quality monitors and large sensor networks. They work with a consortium of experienced organisations to provide the best accuracy and reliability and enable you to own and understand your air quality data.
Ricardo
Reference data and QA/QC verification
The team at Ricardo applies annual checks to our air quality data and challenges QA/QC. Ricardo are a global team of consultants, environmental specialists, engineers and scientists working to deliver innovative and cross-sector sustainable solutions that help clients to create a safe and sustainable world. Responding to complex global challenges, they deliver engineering consulting services and solutions built on sustainable technological innovation.
Breathe London is supported by:
Mayor of London
Breathe London was established by the Mayor of London. The Mayor’s vision is for London to have the best air quality of any major world city by 2050, going beyond the legal requirements to protect human health and minimise inequalities. The Mayor is taking action to reduce the exposure of Londoners to harmful pollution, mobilising action from London boroughs, and working to meet World Health Organization health-based interim guidelines for air quality by 2030.
Breathe Cities
Breathe Cities is a first-of-its-kind initiative delivered by the Clean Air Fund, C40 Cities and Bloomberg Philanthropies to clean our air, cut carbon emissions and enhance public health in cities around the world. Inspired by pilots in Warsaw and London, Breathe Cities aims to tackle urban air pollution on a global scale, with programmes now running in 14 cities worldwide. It brings together air quality data, communities and city leaders in its mission to reduce air pollution and planet-warming emissions by 30% across participating cities by 2030. Achieving this 2030 goal would prevent an estimated 55,000 premature deaths and around 111,000 new cases of asthma in children, save $147 billion in avoided hospitalizations and deaths and avoid up to 394 megatonnes of CO2e emissions.
The new Breathe London programme will continue to launch through 2025.
If you need to get in touch with the new Breathe London team, have a specific question about your air pollution sensor or on taking action on air pollution, please get in touch using the form below or call us on 020 4591 5660.
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