Air pollution kills millions each year, especially in the world’s megacities. But we found some surprising news: In many places, it’s actually getting better! Here’s how megacities around the world are already making their air cleaner and safer. 

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We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.

Credits:
Author: Kira Schacht
Video Editor: Frederik Willmann
Supervising Editor: Kiyo Dörrer
Fact-check: Kirsten Funck 

With thanks for interviews (included and not):
Rafay Alam:   / rafay_alam  
Zoe Chafe: https://www.c40.org/our-team/zoe-chafe/
Sophie Gumy, Technical Officer at WHO's Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health
Frank Hammes, IQAir: https://www.iqair.com/
Bhavreen Kandhari:   / bhavreen-kandhari-80283026a  
Abid Omar:   / abidomar  

Read more:
Methodology and Data :
https://github.com/dw-data/air-pollut...
WHO Ambient (outdoor) air pollution:
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sh...
C40 – Air quality:
https://www.c40.org/what-we-do/scalin...
Pakistan Air Quality Initiative:
  / pakairquality  

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:46 The problem
01:31 Our analysis
02:00 The causes
02:36 Transport
04:04 Industry
04:45 Waste
05:39 Energy
07:12 What now
09:46 Outro