The Global Pollution Expert’s mission involves thinking innovatively to solve some of the world’s biggest environmental and climate change challenges. Sustainability goes to the heart of the expert’s mission because improving the air quality of the planet improves human health.

Mitigating climate change is about reducing the release of greenhouse gas emissions that are warming our planet. Mitigation strategies include retrofitting buildings to make them more energy efficient; adopting renewable energy sources like solar, wind and small hydro; helping cities develop more sustainable transport such as bus rapid transit, electric vehicles, and biofuels; and promoting more sustainable uses of land and forests

Our values articulate the fundamental beliefs and behaviours of our staff and organisation. With these values the Institute is conscious of its corporate and social responsibility. The Institute embraces the opportunity to work with its staff and visitors to improve all aspects of its operations, with a commitment to decrease its carbon footprint and become more environmentally sustainable.

Our commitment: In the face of challenges, we choose optimism — that people are good, that environment is not polluted, that we can solve climate change, and that we are greater than our flaws. By reviewing these activities, the expert is seeking ways to reduce negative impacts on the environment. The Institute is doing this by:

• Promoting awareness of the world’s environmental impact;
• Taking practical steps through advocacy to reduce it;
• Minimising environmental degradation/ pollution;
• Partnering with environmentally sustainable organisations;
• Promote the Procurement of environmentally sustainable products; and,
• Promoting refuse, reduce, reuse, repurpose, and then recycle of waste to better manage waste.
• Supporting the UN in achieving the milestones laid out in the roadmap to enable the world to reach net-zero emissions by 2050
• Create awareness by supporting the UN to achieve the 2025 roadmap as call for subsidies for fossil fuel consumption to be re-directed towards renewable energy and energy efficiency.
• To promote environmental compliance and get on track to limit global warming to 1.5°C, in order to enable the world to take an additional 28 gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalent (GtCO2e) off annual emissions by 2030.
• Promote the reductions of 30 per cent emissions needed to stay on the least-cost pathway for 2°C and 55 per cent for 1.5°C