More data for a healthy Amazon and a protected population.
The Respira Amazônia Coalition brings together public managers, researchers, and civil society organizations to strengthen air quality monitoring in the Amazon region. By joining forces between public and private entities, we promote initiatives that collect and analyze data on air pollution, using technologies such as low-cost equipment.
Our goal is to inform the population about the quality of the air they breathe and to support the creation of public policies that protect people’s health and preserve forests.
Focused on the Amazon: see our results
Unpublished publication
We produced a Policy Brief on Challenges and perspectives of air quality monitoring in the Legal Amazon: an integrated view of technologies, socio-environmental contexts, and public policies, a product that disseminates the scenario, challenges, and recommendations for what can be done in the territory in relation to air monitoring in the Legal Amazon.
National events
We held two in-person meetings in Brasília and Manaus in 2023 and 2024, respectively, in partnership with the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change and other organizations such as the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), WoodWell Research Center, Amazonas State University, etc.
Coalition formed
We created the first multisectoral network of institutions involved in air monitoring in the Amazon using low-cost technologies. Currently, the Coalition has 22 member organizations with a presence in the nine states of the Legal Amazon. Through strategic meetings, we strengthened air monitoring in the region with the coordination and engagement of key actors present in the territory.
Acquisition of Sensors
Based on the meetings held and coordination between key actors, the Environment Secretariats of the states of Mato Grosso and Amazonas made progress in acquiring low-cost sensors. The equipment will be distributed in their respective territories, marking the beginning of air quality monitoring in the Legal Amazon.
