This Monday June 20th at 6:30pm More than 90% of the world breathes polluted air – over 6.8 billion people. Air pollution is a pervasive and inescapable crisis: impacting children’s lung & brain development, increasing health risk factors, and killing nearly five million every year globally. In Thailand, air pollution has been found to take an average of 2 years off people’s lives, and in 2019 around 32,200 premature deaths in Thailand have been attributed to air pollution. (References: AQLI Thailand Factsheet, State of Global Air 2020 Report) This Monday we are virtually hosting Weenarin Lulitanonda, the co-founder of the Thailand Clean Air Network (Thailand CAN), Chadchart Sittipunt, the recently elected Bangkok Governor, Ma Jun, renowned environmentalist from China and Director of the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE), & Soranun Choochut, Founder, CEO, Chief sustainability officer at ETRAN. This event comes at a vital time for Thailand, as the first citizen-driven Clean Air Bill to the Thai Parliament for a possible consideration as passage into law and with Ajarn Chadchart Sittipunt’s recent landslide electoral win as Bangkok Governor. This discussion will cover proposed policy changes and the business case imperative for clean air, but then narrow down to what’s possible at the city level to support a clean air agenda. Driving public participation is paramount, but Thailand still lacks the adequate data and platform for citizen engagement. Ma Jun spearheaded the development of the Blue Map, which is China’s first public environmental database that maps out real-time air and water pollution sources from the industrial sector to enable citizens to report violations. Along this vein, Ajarn Chadchart’s proposed policies are also highly supportive of new systems and platforms that would elevate citizen engagement. Furthermore, his new clean air policies focus on different air pollution point sources including industrial pollution which impacts Bangkok. The technology is here. The platforms exist. Now we need collaborative action and knowledge transfer to pull the lessons learned from other cities and countries and adapt them to the Thai context. As a first mover for air pollution in the startup space in Thailand, ETRAN was founded by a collaboration between SCB and PTT. As regulations tighten and investment greens, more and more companies are seeing air pollution as what it really is: a business imperative and portfolio risk. “We are all living in the same stratosphere.” Join us to learn what business, government, and citizens can do – together – to support a clean air future. Please follow this link to register:  https://sasin.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZrKxSraTThGEH8i2_6IjAg