As the UK is easing lockdown restrictions, WCRAQ’s Chair of Air Health, Professor Stephen Holgate, has released a new report outlining the possibility of 120,000 further coronavirus deaths in a second wave of infections this winter.
Category: Air Quality News
Air Quality News: Biomethane is essential to decarbonise transport says report
Biomethane is essential to successfully decarbonise the transport industry, according to a report published today (July 2) by The European Biogas Association (EBA). According to the report, despite current efforts, transport is the only sector that is not decarbonising and…
ClientEarth: Clean Air Business Update
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…
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…
Clean Air Cops
Clean Air Cops is a unique educational programme created to provide schools with the tools and confidence to engage young people and their parents.
Air quality targets post Covid-19
CILT’s Bus & Coach Policy Group has published a paper claiming more people will die from air pollution than Covid-19 unless an alternative to the car changes travel behaviour. Rebuilding the bus market to meet the decarbonising challenge in a…
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
New York City is to transition to an all-electric city fleet by 2040
The executive order from Mayor Bill de Blasio was announced on 6 February 2020 at his State of the City Address and it also requires the city to procure the safest possible vehicles for its fleet. NYC currently operates the…