Governments have been urged to establish mandatory indoor air quality performance standards and a transparent national system of monitoring and reporting, including universal workplace monitoring and the visible display of real-time indoor air quality data.

If you’re indoors right now, do you know how much of the air you're breathing is someone else’s ‘breath backwash’ or what pollutants it contains?

On Tuesday 23rd September, the Safer Air Project’s CEO and founder, Plum Stone, travelled to New York to speak at Healthy Indoor Air: A Global Call to Action – the inaugural high-level side event on indoor air quality (IAQ), held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

We spoke to Dr. Claire Bird and Derek Shearer ahead of this year’s AIRAH Indoor Air Quality conference about why indoor air quality is something everyone should care about regardless of health status, why personal stories are a key part of driving technical change, and what we can look forward to at this year’s conference.