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Meet 'baby' Claire: the lifelike doll assisting researchers in Belgium by keeping tabs on the city's air pollution.

Named after her mission statement of "Clean Air for Everyone", Claire is pushed through the congested streets of Antwerp in her buggy, which is equipped with electronic sensors measuring particulate matter from vehicle and factory emissions.

Despite a population of just 11 million, Belgium has some of the poorest quality air in Europe.

Referred to as a silent killer, air pollution causes about 7 million premature deaths around the world every year.

Roeland Samson is a professor of bioengineering at the University of Antwerp.

Accompanying Claire on her travels around the city is volunteer Veerle Bonaers.

Senior climate campaigner at Greenpeace Belgium Joeri

We need to go away from fossil fuel cars, we need to go to electric cars that can be fueled with renewable energy, but most of all we need to go to a different kind of mobility with much less cars, and better alternatives."

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