Clean Air Day
18 June 2026
The UK's largest public air pollution campaign: engaging businesses, schools, hospitals, health professionals, local authorities and devolved governments to take action on air pollution
I’m proud to be joining healthcare professionals and campaigners on Clean Air Day in their call for cleaner air in London. The right to clean air is a matter of social and environmental justice, which is why the Mayor and I are doing everything in our power to protect public health by putting London on a pathway to meeting World Health Organization air quality guidelines by 2030, including delivering the world’s largest clean air zone. It is crucial that the Government matches our ambition and continues to work with us to create a greener, safer London for everyone.
Mete Coban MBE, Deputy Mayor of London for Environment and Energy
Global Action Plan’s vision is of connected, resilient, low carbon communities, where people's health is enhanced by their environment at home and in their local neighbourhood.
We collaborate with funders and supporter organisations on our Clean Air Day campaign to raise awareness and increase public understanding of the health impacts of air pollution and how we can take collective action for cleaner air.
We take action with communities and our partners to address climate-related problems today and in doing so, influence systems for a more just and sustainable future.
3,400+
signatures on petition calling for the new government to get on board with clean air delivered to Downing Street in July 2024, the first petition delivered to the new Prime Minister after the election
75
health professionals joined our Clean Air Day walk and wheel from Great Ormond Street Hospital to Parliament square to promote their open letter (signed by 500 health professionals) calling for more ambitious government targets for air quality
77%
· of people who had heard about Clean Air Day were concerned about the long-term impacts of air pollution on their health (compared to 48% of those who hadn’t heard of the campaign)
680
media mentions for Clean Air Day 2025, including mentions in the Guardian, Daily Mail, Independent, BBC News, Sunday Express, BBC Morning Live, BBC London, Women's Hour, LBC and Forbes
We launched Clean Air Day in 2017, since then it has...
- Engaged businesses, schools, hospitals, health professionals, local authorities and devolved governments to take action on air pollution
- Promoted walking, cycling and active travel to schools all over the country
- Supported streets across the country to close as play streets, including Great Ormond Street enabling some children who had not been able to go outside for many months to come out and play
- Resulted in the first petition to be handed in to the Labour government in July 2024, calling on them to get on board with clean air.
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Our health is shaped by the world around us: where we live, work and play; so, when people live in areas with high air pollution, or don’t have access to reliable and affordable public transport, it means that they are more likely to have poorer health. But we know that change is possible, which is why we are proud to be working in partnership with Global Action Plan to deliver Clean Air Day and call on politicians to act now to clean up our air and stop lives from being cut short.
Paul MacDonald, Chief Campaigns Officer, Health Equals
With thanks to the funders that help us to make Clean Air Day happen
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