The State of Global Air Quality Funding 2024

This report by Clean Air Fund analyses international development funding flows to outdoor air quality-related projects for the five years up to and including 2022 and is based on the latest publicly available data.5 The donors covered in this analysis include bilateral and multilateral Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) and governments that provide international funding.

Levels of air pollution are escalating in most low- and middle-income countries, but international development funding for clean air efforts reached $4.7 billion in 2022. Investments have crept back to pre-pandemic levels ($4.6 billion in 2019), but clean air funding still only makes up 1% of all international development funding.

Along with this chronic underfunding, our analysis shows that investments are uneven and not sufficiently targeted or tailored. As a result, opportunities to realise clean air dividends are being missed.