The Air Quality Task Force of Energy Foundation China pursues world-class air quality and carbon neutrality for China by implementing a co-control strategy for air and climate pollutants. The task force supports cross-cutting research on air quality, climate change, health, energy, the economy, and urban-rural coordination topics.

With more evidence of the health impact of air pollution, the World Health Organization (WHO) updated its Global Air Quality Guidelines in September 2021.

On October 31, 2022, with the support of Energy Foundation China (EF China), the China Clean Air Policy Partnership held an academic salon for 700 experts, discussing sources and environmental impacts of atmospheric ammonia emissions in Chinese cities.

In 2022, Energy Foundation China supported Tsinghua University to research on a 2025 co-control strategy for air pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions in Hebei, a northern China manufacturing province that has suffered from air pollution. Their findings were summarized in this report in December 2022.

In September 2022, China Green Industry Co., Ltd. published this report presenting a co-control strategy for carbon and air pollutants in Yanqing, a mountainous district in northwestern Beijing. The report was supported by Energy Foundation China, coordinated by China Green Enterprise Co., Ltd., and written by China Quality Certification Center.

In 2022, Energy Foundation China supported the School of Environmental Science and Engineering at Peking University to research how Hebei, a northern China province that has suffered from air pollution, should set its ozone target and control strategy by 2025.

In August 2022, with the support of Energy Foundation China, Tsinghua University completed this research report on how to phase out residential scattered coal use in the rural areas of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, which is one of the biggest coal producing provinces in China.