In partnership with the World Health Organization and the Climate and Clean Air Coalition, Purpose developed the brand, content and campaign strategy for BreatheLife, with the goal of mobilizing cities and individuals to protect our health and planet from the effects of air pollution.
Our flagship video, ‘Walk Home,’ followed three children from different parts of the world to highlight the different ways in which they may encounter air pollution on their journey home.
Using the WHO data, we created an action platform that allows visitors to find the air pollution levels in their city in an accessible and engaging way, and also easily take meaningful action to address this global environmental and health crisis.
We created a series of infographics to visualize the key statistics and figures regarding air pollution risk and prevalence.
We created a series of shareable graphics for social media that exposed the links between air pollution and some of the world’s most common causes of death
We organized a series of actions at Habitat III to engage with attendees and generate online and offline discussion around BreatheLife Cities. The convening marked the launch of the BreatheLife Cities Network, a global platform for cities around the world to show their support for clean air solutions and share progress in the global fight to reduce air pollution to safe levels by 2030. At the event itself, participants we asked to take a “clean air selfie,” calling on leaders to breathe life back into their city. These are some of our favorites.
We developed a flexible, multi-language brand system that is both bold and recognizable, but nimble enough to be localized to different languages and even for different cities.
The launch of the ‘Walk Home’ video was the most shared tweet of the Habitat III , the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, during which the campaign was officially launched with over 1,000 retweets and an audience of nearly 300,000.
Many mainstream outlets covered the campaign and highlighted the linkages between air pollution and its effects on health and climate change, including global publications like the Huffington Post and local publications like the Manila Times and El Tiempo.
BreatheLife developed an ongoing partnership with C40 to help build public support for banning diesel vehicles in cities around the world with Athens, Paris, Madrid, Mexico City announcing a ban at the C40 Summit in December.
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