Healthy Indoor Air: A Global Call to Action

Outline of session:

• High-level speakers from government, UN agencies, academia, healthcare, education, policy, sustainability, and industry will gather to share insights, experience, and diverse perspectives on how they are approaching indoor air quality, noting this is currently a gap in most public health frameworks.
• Airborne diseases (including those that cause pandemics) and airborne pollutants (like wildfire smoke and vehicle emissions) may be invisible, but they cause profound harm. With global populations spending ~90% of time indoors, buildings need to prioritise and guarantee access to clean, safe air.
• As climate change intensifies wildfires and the risk of novel pathogens increases, the need for research, policy, and action on IAQ has never been more pressing.