The World Athletics Air Quality Project was launched in 2018 as part of a broader campaign to raise awareness of air pollution around the world and the impact it has on both elite athletes and recreational runners.

During the Sport@COP event, Paolo Emilio Adami, the medical manager at World Athletics Health and Science Department confirmed air quality monitoring would continue at events throughout 2022.

Adami said it would be in place at each World Athletics Series event, several World Athletics Indoor Tour meetings, each stop on the Wanda Diamond League circuit and several mass participation running events.

Combatting air pollution and working to improve air quality is one of six key pillars in the World Athletics Sustainability Strategy, a roadmap unveiled last year, with goals including transitioning to carbon neutrality across all operations and events before 2030.

The Sport@COP event also featured a sport sustainability showcase which included presentations about how several regional associations around the world had produced research into the intersection between climate change, sustainability and sport.

The Green Sport Alliance in North America, the Sports Environment Alliance in Oceania and the Sport Ecology Group, a team of sports scholars from universities across North America and Europe, were among the associations involved in the research.