ATMO Auvergne Rhône-Alpes has just launched a collaborative platform on the internet. It was designed for residents and communities who want to act for air quality.
This platform is aimed at citizens but also communities and businesses, but especially each of us.
This platform is the first of its kind in France
According to an Atmo / BVA study published last year, “8 out of 10 inhabitants say they are ready to change their habits or behavior in order to improve air quality”, highlighted Marlène Duchateau, project manager at ATMO Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. “But only two-thirds believe their behavior can actually have an impact”, she continues.
Hence the idea of this platform that will “support citizens by allowing them to evaluate their actions, such as going to work by bike or sorting their waste”, according to Isabelle Clostre, communications officer at ATMO Auvergne Rhône-Alpes, but also “by also offering him all the actions carried out in the territory in which he resides, which allows him to benefit from bonuses, or initiatives carried by his community and / or organizations near his place of life”.
“The idea is to show him that his action has an impact for the air at his scale and at the scale of a community”, she concludes.
The collaborative platform identifies 130 actions of organizations and 50 citizen participations. Everyone can like an action, participate in it, or suggest others.
A stake for our health
“The link between atmospheric exposure and health effects has been clearly established by numerous studies over the past thirty years”, according to Nicolas Grenettier, of the Regional Health Agency.
In the region, each year, air pollution causes 4,400 deaths according to Public Health France and a loss of life expectancy of two years.
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