ClientEarth’s June 2020 update outlines air quality news and its relevance to business. Many people have noticed cleaner air and clearer skies during lockdown. This has resulted in widespread calls for measures to clean up our air permanently from the…
Category: Air Health
BBC News: Traffic levels ‘now double the lockdown low’
In April, UK carbon emissions reportedly fell by 31%, but have increased since. Whilst the AA predicts that this road traffic slump will soon even out, Friends of Earth warn that “the government themselves are contributing to increased pollution from…
Barry Sheerman MP questions Parliament on Government’s strategy on road air quality
This week in Parliament, the leader of the Westminster Commission for Road Air Quality, Barry Sheerman MP, questioned the Under-Secretary of State for Transport, Rachel Maclean, exactly how government are planning to tackle air pollution. Sheerman asked whether the government…
WHO acknowledges ‘evidence emerging’ of airborne transmission of COVID-19
Yesterday, the World Health Organization acknowledged new emerging evidence that the novel coronavirus does spread more widely in the air than previously suggested. Airborne transmission cannot be ruled out in crowded, closed or poorly ventilated areas. Speaking in Geneva this…
How Coronavirus will Change Commuting – and Air Pollution
The Financial Times‘ Leslie Hook investigates how the world’s biggest cities are using lockdown to reclaim roads and give more space to cyclists and pedestrians. Coronavirus could accelerate plans to cut transport emissions and curb air pollution. (Produced, filmed and…
Air pollution linked with higher COVID-19 death rates
People with COVID-19 who live in US areas with high levels of air pollution are more likely to die from the disease than people who live in less polluted places, according to a new nationwide study from Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. The study,…
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Guardian highlights the Omission of air pollution from report on Covid-19 and race ‘astonishing’
The failure to consider air pollution as a factor in the higher rates of coronavirus deaths among minority ethnic groups is “astonishing” and “wholly irresponsible”…… read more